News - National
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24-Aug-2011
The key consequence of the Tampa crisis, which has its tenth anniversary tomorrow, was that Australia made a "fundamental shift" in the way refugees were regarded in relation to our society, says the director of Jesuit Refugee Service Australia, the Catholic Weekly reports.
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24-Aug-2011
A bill for gay marriage would clearly fail if Labor allowed a conscience vote, MPs' reports to Parliament on the issue indicated yesterday, the Age reports.
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23-Aug-2011
More than 50 church leaders, including Cardinal George Pell, have directly appealed to all 226 federal MPs not to change the Marriage Act, in a campaign to defeat moves by Labor and the Greens to allow same-sex marriage, reports the Australian.
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22-Aug-2011
Australian not-for-profit organisations have renewed their calls for child refugees to be allowed to stay here as the High Court decides upon their fate, reports Pro Bono Australia.
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21-Aug-2011
Labor's factional leaders are poised to strike a deal to declare the issue of same-sex marriage a conscience vote in order to defuse a potential brawl on the floor of December's national conference, reports the Australian.
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21-Aug-2011
Australia's Catholic bishops have agreed to send parishioners' questions to the Vatican over the early retirement of Toowoomba Bishop Bill Morris. But they are divided about a separate petition asking them to put particular questions to the Pope when they visit the Vatican in October, reports the Age.
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24-Aug-2011
Up to 13 new Catholic schools will be built in the region of Geelong in Victoria to cope with skyrocketing demand, said the Geelong Advertiser.
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23-Aug-2011
Demand for places in Catholic secondary education in Geelong, Victoria is at an all-time high, with principals of the region's four existing Catholic secondary schools saying there were far more applicants than places available, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
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22-Aug-2011
A former priest was sentenced to two years in jail for the sexual abuse of a student 28 years ago, said reports in the Age and the ABC.
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21-Aug-2011
Victoria-based statue restorer and maker, Joseph Giansiracusa, wants to found a sacramental museum devoted to the art and trappings of the Catholic Church, and in particular to house one of Australia's last surviving set of moulds for saints, reports the Age.
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24-Aug-2011
The current model for teachers' salaries of incremental wage increases linked to years of service is outdated and in need of review, says Dr Dan White, executive director of Catholic schools in the Sydney archdiocese, according to the Catholic Weekly.
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News - International
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24-Aug-2011
The Vatican has summoned the head of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) to Rome to assess the results of a two-year doctrinal dialogue between the schismatic group and the Holy See, said a Religion News Service report on the Huffington Post.
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25-Aug-2011
Historic US churches in Washington, Maryland and Virginia were among buildings with the most serious damage after an unusual magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the region this week, reports the Catholic News Service.
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25-Aug-2011
A new study has found that children born to co-habiting couples fare even worse than children from divorced families, said a Catholic News Service report on the National Catholic Reporter.
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22-Aug-2011
An announcement by the US Obama administration that new discretion will be exercised over deporting immigrants with criminal records has been hailed by advocates, reports the Catholic News Service.
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25-Aug-2011
An Irish priest blamed in the Cloyne report for his failure to report cases of alleged clerical abuse to the authorities has defended his actions - but also said he should have resigned from his position, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-Aug-2011
Madrid's House of Commerce said that hotels, transportation services and businesses in the Spanish capital took in almost $219 million during the World Youth Day event, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-Aug-2011
Pope Benedict was "so emotional, he almost wept" during some of the key moments of World Youth Day, the archbishop of Madrid told the broadcasting station of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, reports Zenit.
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22-Aug-2011
Around 200 Iraqis found a sense of safety at the World Youth Day in Madrid, reports the Middle East Online.
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22-Aug-2011
Sydney's Cardinal George Pell urged young people to keep the flame of faith burning, during a catechesis session at World Youth Day, according to a statement by the Archdiocese of Sydney.
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22-Aug-2011
The former Bishop of the Diocese of Cloyne in Ireland, John Magee, has begged forgiveness for failing to protect children and investigate abusive priests, according to Kerryman.ie.
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21-Aug-2011
The oldest cloistered nun in the world, aged 103 years, has met Pope Benedict and given him a book with a dedication, reports the Vatican Insider.
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21-Aug-2011
At the final Mass closing World Youth Day Aug 21 in Madrid, the Pope challenged some 1.4 million gathered Catholic pilgrims to take their faith, make it grow and share it with the world, reports the Catholic News Service.
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21-Aug-2011
A violent storm forced Pope Benedict to interrupt his speech at the weekend, sweeping off his skullcap, shaking the stage and drenching more than one million pilgrims at a Madrid airbase, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Aug-2011
Pope Benedict XVI has called for the economy to work for people, not profit, as he landed in crisis-torn Spain for World Youth Day, said an AFP report on the ABC.
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18-Aug-2011
Thousands of protesters angry over a visit by Pope Benedict for World Youth Day took to Madrid's streets, and were confronted by Catholic pilgrims who sang 'hallelujah' and sat on the ground and prayed, said a report on bigpondnews.com.
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23-Aug-2011
Three Franciscan friars remained barricaded this week in their home in a Tripoli neighbourhood, where there was heavy fighting, a source told the Fides news agency, reports the Catholic News Service.
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25-Aug-2011
The Catholic population in Brazil is dropping, with numbers gathered between 2003 and 2009 showing it at the lowest recorded in 140 years of statistical research, reports the Vatican Insider.
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24-Aug-2011
The 2013 World Youth Day theme for Rio de Janeiro is "Go and Make Disciples of All Nations", Pope Benedict has announced, reports the Catholic News Service.
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23-Aug-2011
Security officials in China have detained a number of underground Church leaders from Tianshui diocese in the northwestern Gansu province, reports ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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25-Aug-2011
Hundreds of Sydney Catholics will be among 2000 people gathered at the Sydney Town Hall on September 15 to celebrate a new force in the city’s public life, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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24-Aug-2011
Maureen Elliott was the youngest child in a Catholic family of three children. She grew up attending Catholic schools on Sydney’s North Shore. In Form 1 at Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood, she and her friends would meet after school calling themselves ‘Our Lady’s Helpers’, reports Catholic Mission Australia.
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23-Aug-2011
Thirteen years have passed since the massacre of 45 men, women and children in a Catholic chapel in Acteal, Mexico, in 1997, reports NCR Online.Determination overcame fear, however, and a few years later the farmers founded a coffee and honey cooperative that rose from the ashes of tragedy.
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22-Aug-2011
Dear Young Friends, I greet all of you, especially the young people who have asked me their questions, and I thank them for the sincerity with which they set forth their concerns, says Pope Benedict in his address at the Cuatro Vientos vigil at WYD. The full text of this address, which was not delivered due to the weather, is published in the Catholic Herald.
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21-Aug-2011
The executive director of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta, Greg Whitby, believes the role of principal is becoming more difficult, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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25-Aug-2011
The 7th National Catholic Education Convention will be held next month and fulls details are available on the National Catholic Education Commission website.
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24-Aug-2011
The Sydney Alliance brings together diverse community organisations, unions and religious organisations - including many leading Catholic groups - to advance the common good and achieve a fair, just and sustainable city.
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23-Aug-2011
Catholic Religious Australia has a new website. National President Anne Derwin says the new site will enable CRA to more effectively report on those ministries and keep the Catholic and wider community up-to-date on the latest news and issues.
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22-Aug-2011
This website, from the National Catholic Education Commission, addresses all of the contemporary issues affecting education and schooling.
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21-Aug-2011
A group of women religious from around Australia makes their fifth annual pilgrimage to Canberra this week in a bid to influence policies affecting people trafficked into Australia. The ACRATH website has full details of their campaign.
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25-Aug-2011
This is a good opportunity for Brendan Gleeson to strut his stuff. And that is what he does as Gerry Boyle, a member of the Garda in Connemara. He is really a small fish in a small pond. The dialogue and humour make this film highly entertaining.
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23-Aug-2011
This is a film 'For Pina Bausch', the German choreographer. Director Wim Wenders had planned a film with her, and about her and her dance theatre, but she unexpectedly died in 2009. Although she appears in some archival footage, this film is about her work and her legacy.
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22-Aug-2011
This is an American romantic comedy about two people, Jamie and Dylan, who become friends. They both decide to make their relationship sexual, but want no commitment or consequences from doing so. The film entertains but as an essay on intimacy, it is misguided
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21-Aug-2011
This film is an American comedy-drama. Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) works part-time as a wrestling coach at a High School in New Jersey, USA. He has high hopes for his team, but it loses nearly every game it plays, and its losing streak parallels Mike’s own life.
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24-Aug-2011
This edition of Compass looks at how the internet brought together a group of men from around the world to mount a landmark civil class-action against the Catholic Church.
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25-Aug-2011
Factors such as education, housing and connectedness have a big impact on health. There is no point telling an unemployed homeless person: 'Don't smoke, it's bad for you.' It's time the Government made a concerted effort to address the health needs of marginalised groups, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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24-Aug-2011
The Catholic Church in Pakistan has taken a vow of silence against the violence scarring the country. The Pakistan Catholic Bishop’s Conference has not issued a press statement expressing concern regarding the situation in Karachi, and no priest there has visited the injured in hospitals, writes Archangel, the pseudonym of a Catholic writer based in Karachi, reports Ucanews.
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23-Aug-2011
At Clapham Junction, in south-west London, stands Debenhams department store. Last Saturday morning, I stood with a crowd of onlookers reading the many messages on its boarded-up windows illustrating the range of reactions to last week’s riots, srites Michael Holman, provincial of the British Jesuits in the Tablet.
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22-Aug-2011
In contrast to British society’s failure to speak the truth on the things that matter, Pope Benedict XVI is not afraid to challenge the young to moral excellence, writes Ben Akers in First Things.
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21-Aug-2011
By now, the threat facing Christianity in its birthplace is depressingly clear. Christians represented 30 percent of British Mandate Palestine in 1948, while today in Israel and the Palestinian Territories they’re 1.25 percent, writes john Allen in NCR Online.
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