News - National
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01-Sep-2011
Father Frank Brennan SJ has described Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attack on High Court Chief Justice Robert French as "a new low in the treatment meted out by politicians to judges when they don't like the result", reports the Australian.
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01-Sep-2011
The Edmund Rice Centre has invited the charting of a new direction in asylum-seeker policy, in the light of the High Court's Malaysia decision, it said in a press release.
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01-Sep-2011
A decision to use politically correct terms - which do not mention Jesus Christ - for dates BC and AD in the new national history curriculum was an act of Christian cleansing, church leaders told the Daily Telegraph.
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31-Aug-2011
The Church said it can assist the government in the matter of asylum seekers, and welcomed the High Court's permanent injunction against the deportation of two asylum seekers to Malaysia, the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office said in a statement.
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31-Aug-2011
In a proposed overhaul of school funding, every child would receive the same base level of funding, whether attending a private or public school, the Age reports.
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28-Aug-2011
Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton has nailed himself to a fluorescent cross floating above a desert landscape in a 3D video artwork, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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25-Aug-2011
Gay marriage has been rejected by the majority of MPs in a special parliamentary debate on the issue, but some of those oppposed have backed civil unions to lessen discrimination faced by same-sex couples, according to a Herald Sun report on AdelaideNow.
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25-Aug-2011
A controversial comparison used by the School Education Minister Peter Garrett in a speech to illustrate inequities in the federal school funding model has been struck from the record, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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30-Aug-2011
A Sydney University law professor said that members of the Salesian order tried to discredit a journalist by falsely claiming he had spent time in jail for child sex offences, reports the Age.
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29-Aug-2011
A Sydney University law professor has written to Victorian Attorney-General and Police Minister seeking an inquiry into the behaviour of the Salesians of Don Bosco, saying the Church suppressed a report it asked him to write, the Age reports.
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31-Aug-2011
There are parallels between the Great Irish Famine of 150 years ago and that afflicting 10 million people in Africa today, said the chairman of the Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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30-Aug-2011
Two teachers from James Sheehan Catholic High School in NSW have been recognised by their students for their excellence in teaching, reports the Central Western Daily.
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28-Aug-2011
A Cairns priest says asylum seekers at a Cape York detention centre in far north Queensland have been granted permission to take part in organised excursions - and added that more could be done to prepare them for life in Australia, reports the ABC.
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28-Aug-2011
A thanksgiving Mass was held yesterday to say goodbye to Bishop Bill Morris at St Patrick's Cathedral in Toowoomba, reports the Toowoomba Chronicle.
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29-Aug-2011
Almost 20,000 of South Australia's 48,783 Catholic school students are not members of the church, a figure higher than at any other time in the past five years, said a report by the Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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News - International
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01-Sep-2011
Stories of poor organisation during the World Youth Day in Madrid have prompted talk on how things can be improved in Rio, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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31-Aug-2011
Governments that mandate sex education in the schools are fooling themselves about its effectiveness, the Vatican newspaper said, according to a report on the Catholic News Service.
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29-Aug-2011
Nobel laureate and Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said the success of World Youth Day in Madrid points to the West's need for Catholicism to survive, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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29-Aug-2011
Cradle Catholics haven't done enough to evangelise and show people that God can bring true fulfilment to everyone, Pope Benedict told a group of his former students, the Catholic News Service report.
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28-Aug-2011
Pope Benedict has encouraged the new class of seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome to be unafraid to carry the cross of Christ, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Sep-2011
Two theologians said their article on marriage was going to be published in the US journal Theological Studies in "a substantially reduced form", stripping away critical facts. They added that Church authority played a role in getting the article published with these arguments intact, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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31-Aug-2011
A winning US$80,000 lottery ticket was anonymously dropped into the collection plate of a church in the US state of Georgia, the Herald Sun reports.
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29-Aug-2011
The Vatican has pressured a leading Catholic theological journal to publish a scholarly essay on marriage, unedited and without undergoing normal peer review, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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28-Aug-2011
The Archbishop of New York said the archdiocese's "extensive network" of institutions, including parishes, residential and health care "stand ready to assist" as the city faced Hurricane Irene, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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28-Aug-2011
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has released an online list of the names of priests in the Archdiocese of Boston in the US who have been accused of sex abuse within the last 60 years, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Sep-2011
Highly influential Austrian abbots said this week that talk of schism in the Austrian Church could not be damped down, nor the current conflict resolved, by a meeting between the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, and representatives of dissident priests, reports the Tablet.
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30-Aug-2011
A Japanese architect will build Christchurch a new cathedral out of cardboard, said reports in Telegraph.co.uk and Gizmodo.com.au.
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30-Aug-2011
The Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland has told Catholics in his archdiocese not to kneel to receive communion, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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30-Aug-2011
An investigation into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic diocese of Raphoe, in County Donegal, is about to report its findings, which are expected to be damning, according to a Guardian report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Aug-2011
A drive by Austrian priests, urging the ordination of women and an end to celibacy, is meeting with widespread support, said an AFP report in the Montreal Gazette.
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31-Aug-2011
Catholic and Baptist Churches in Myanmar are leading the way in supporting internal refugees as more rural people make their way to cities, a bishop told ucanews.com.
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30-Aug-2011
A new Catholic university has opened in Jordan and will accommodate up to 8,000 students, reports the Vatican Insider.
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Regulars
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01-Sep-2011
A group of 25 or so hardy souls will set off today on foot from St Joseph's Catholic Church in Subiaco, Perth. They will be walking the Camino Salvado, following the footsteps of Bishop Rosendo Salvado, founder of the Benedictine order's New Norcia mission, reports the West Australian.
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31-Aug-2011
East Africa is currently suffering its most severe drought in 60 years. Father Frido Pfleuger SJ, regional director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Eastern Africa, has just returned from a visit to the Dollo Ado refugee camps in south-east Ethiopia, and in this interview with Thinking Faith he describes his impressions of the situation.
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30-Aug-2011
Artist Josonia Palaitis needed some heavenly inspiration to paint the portrait of Sister Baptist De Lacy. The nun died in 1879 and not one image of her has been found, reports the Mosman Daily.
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29-Aug-2011
When All Saints Church, in Syracuse, New York, sought to signal its hospitality to gays and lesbians, it turned to a well-known image from the September 11 attacks: five firefighters carrying a body from the wreckage of the World Trade Centre, reports the Religion News Service in an article published in the Huffington Post.
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28-Aug-2011
Natasha Meyer takes a look at a day through the eyes of a child in Africa and a child in Australia, in Australian Catholics.
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01-Sep-2011
National Child Protection Week begins on Sunday and Father Chris Riley, founder of Youth Off the Streets,has launched a campaign calling for the renewed protection of youing people. Details can be found on the website.
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31-Aug-2011
This year Palms Australia celebrates 50 years of service - recruiting, preparing, sending and supporting skilled volunteers to reduce global poverty, at the request of our partner communities in Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
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30-Aug-2011
Keep it short, says Fr Roy Shelly of the Loyola Institute of Ministry. Eight minutes, tops, and stay focused on the week's readings; avoid talking about parish news, service trips or the latest March for Life.
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29-Aug-2011
The Columbans' annual art calendar is now on sale, and the Society's website has a long, rich video explaining the background to the popular feature.
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28-Aug-2011
Yesterday was the Feast Day of St Augustine. Catholic Online has a detailed account of his life, times and significance, plus a video on him.
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28-Aug-2011
This is a movie about three very unhappy employees, Nick Hendricks, Kurt Buckman, and Dale Arbus, played by Jason Bateman Jason Kudeikis and Charlie Day. They all have awful bosses. Under the influence of alcohol, the group of three wantonly decide that murder of their bosses is their only option.
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30-Aug-2011
The 10th anniversary of September 11 brings to New York City the new memorial at Ground Zero (pictured) and a deeper commitment by many to make inter-racial and inter-religious dialogue work for Americans and for New Yorkers in particular.
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31-Aug-2011
The Mediterranean Sea is the vector for more than 5,000 years of human civilisation, as David Abulafia reveals in this magnificent new survey, and requires a feat of heroic literary skill for its legacy to be expressed, writes Nicholas Vincent in the Tablet.
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29-Aug-2011
A N Wilson’s fascinatingly readable Dante in Love introduces us to the actual places and characters that made up Dante’s world in medieval Florence, writes John Battle in Thinking Faith.
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01-Sep-2011
If the unfolding crisis in the Austrian Church is not handled with delicacy, it could become a catastrophic schism and quickly spread, writes the Tablet.
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31-Aug-2011
For a long time the High Court has ticked off on the remarkable difficulties Australia puts in the way of asylum seekers who come here by boat, writes David Marr in the Sydney Morning Herald. Yesterday's emphatic decision extended the principle of fairness to the people we wanted to send away to Malaysia.
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30-Aug-2011
If one were to poll Catholic insiders as to which bishops are considered global leaders on the sexual abuse crisis, a few names would likely pop up repeatedly. Right at the top of the list would be Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, writes John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter Online.
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29-Aug-2011
The ongoing quarrel between a leading feminist theologian and the bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States is another sign that all is not going well in the household of American Catholicism. It has acquired an intense spirit of factionalism, of a house divided against itself, reports The Tablet.
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28-Aug-2011
The official position of the Catholic Church is on same-sex marriage is not a new teaching, but it does require some explanation and pastoral reflection, writes Bruce Ryan in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
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01-Sep-2011
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen will be among the speakers at a forum on the ethics of migration next Thursday hosted by ACU in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in conjunction with the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office,.
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