News - National
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08-Sep-2011
Catholic Health Australia's aged care policy expert has been seconded part-time to Aged and Community Services Australia, to provide strategic and policy advice through the crucial early aged care reform process, reports the Australian Ageing Agenda.
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08-Sep-2011
The official newspaper of the Sandhurst Diocese in Victoria, The Sandpiper, has been named best newspaper at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Catholic Press, the Australasian Catholic Press Association said in a statement. CathNews was highly commended for its campaign covering the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
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07-Sep-2011
Catholic social justice agencies have raised a range of issues relating to the proposed carbon tax as the Australian Government prepares to introduce bills on the legislation into parliament this week, reports the Catholic Leader.
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07-Sep-2011
South Australia's social inclusion commissioner Monsignor David Cappo will step down in December from his state Labor government roles, reports the Australian.
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06-Sep-2011
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, will host an Interfaith Memorial Service to mark the 10th anniversary of September 11, for families, friends and colleagues from Australia and the US, the archdiocese said in a statement.
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06-Sep-2011
Australia's first mental health reform commission will be headed by Monsignor David Cappo, who has a strong background in social reform, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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06-Sep-2011
A survey of 300 Australian IT workers and their bosses has found employees were frequently using their own smart phones and tablets to send work emails - from bed, from places of worship and while on holidays, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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05-Sep-2011
The Anglican Church in the ACT and New South Wales is about to get a shake-up, with a merger planned for the operations and finances of the the dioceses of Bathurst, Riverina and Canberra-Goulburn, reports the ABC.
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04-Sep-2011
The Edmund Rice Centre has been given a legal opinion which says any attempt to use Nauru or PNG for the processing of asylum seekers could be found invalid, the Centre said in a media release.
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04-Sep-2011
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is calling upon politicians to rethink tough crime campaigns that are causing needlessly high rates of incarceration, reports AdelaideNow from the Advertiser.
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08-Sep-2011
Abuse victims have criticised thevchurch response system, claiming it has failed to acknowledge their suffering, in a report on the ABC's 7.30 Report.
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05-Sep-2011
The Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart has rejected claims of bullying of vulnerable victims, the perversion of justice and breaches of ethical professional practice, according to a statement.
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04-Sep-2011
Police dropped investigation into a priest accused of molesting schoolchildren in Victoria because they considered him too old to bring to justice, according to ninemsn.
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04-Sep-2011
In a 66-page letter, victims of abuse by clergy in Melbourne yesterday asked the Victorian government to investigate the church's handling of complaints, claiming it perverted the course of justice and bullied victims, reports the Age.
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07-Sep-2011
Parishioners' love for Father Rod Bray was evident when they spilled out on to the pavement at his funeral service in the Sydney suburb of Merrylands, reports the Parramatta Advertiser.
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05-Sep-2011
NSW Heritage Minister Robyn Parker says the Catholic Church will not be able to buy the whole of the old Kings School site in Parramatta, reports the Parramatta Advertiser.
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04-Sep-2011
Archbishop of Hobart, Adrian Doyle, is set to retire, 50 years after he was ordained a priest, reports the Mercury.
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News - International
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07-Sep-2011
Religion has to play a major role in dialogue, to build peace out of the ruins of the September 11 attacks, said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, according to the Catholic News Service.
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05-Sep-2011
A New York judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Vatican concerning rights to reproduce images from treasures in the Vatican Library, said an Associated Press report in the Washington Examiner.
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08-Sep-2011
German authorities said they have foiled a terrorist plot in Berlin, arresting two men suspected of purchasing bomb-making chemicals, reports the Wall Street Journal. The arrest comes just a few weeks before the Pope's planned visit to his homeland this month.
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08-Sep-2011
The Irish Government has told the Vatican it expects its fullest co-operation in ensuring children are safe from clerical abuse, reports the Kerryman.
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08-Sep-2011
The English and Welsh Episcopal Conference is inviting Catholics to return to meatless Fridays as a "simple and direct way" to testify the Christian faith to others, reports the Vatican Insider.
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07-Sep-2011
Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad by a mobile phone company commercial which featured a cartoon Jesus who winked and gave a thumbs-up gesture appeared to be mocking the Christian faith, said an AFP report on 9News and a UKPA report.
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07-Sep-2011
A British parliamentary amendment that would have placed restrictions on abortion providers giving pregnancy counselling has been defeated, reports the Catholic Herald.
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06-Sep-2011
Irish government officials plan to meet early this month to discuss the Vatican response to criticisms by Irish Prime Minister over the findings of an Irish judicial report on the handling of clerical sex abuse, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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06-Sep-2011
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna wants to get the priests who are calling for reforms in church practice to work with him to bring new life to Viennese parishes, his spokesman said, according to the Catholic News Service.
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05-Sep-2011
Ireland's deputy prime minister has accused the Vatican of missing the point in its response to the country, saying the real issue was that the Catholic Church did not deal effectively with paedophile priests, reports Kerryman.ie.
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05-Sep-2011
Thousands of Catholics across Britain "beat their breasts" in acts of penitence yesterday - with the usage of the new translation of the Missal, according to a Times report in the Australian.
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04-Sep-2011
In a formal response to the Irish Government, the Vatican has rejected claims that it in any way hampered a clerical child abuse inquiry in the diocese of Cloyne, and said the accusation against it was unfounded, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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06-Sep-2011
Indian Catholics have been urged not to retaliate to attacks by masked vandals who desecrated a church in the southern state of Kerala on September 4, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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08-Sep-2011
Monsignor David Cappo has set himself two tough tasks to complete before he departs as Commissioner for Social Inclusion in December, reports the Adelaide Advertiser.
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07-Sep-2011
As the largest landowner in the West, the church has a huge potential to engage in local recycling programs. "Just imagine what could happen if every parish had a garden," says one advocate. NCR Online reports.
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06-Sep-2011
For the Benedictines, "A monastery without a library is like a fortress without an arsenal". The collection behind the walls of the New Norcia library would bring any scholar to their knees in surrender, reports the West Australian.
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05-Sep-2011
As a former Catholic schoolgirl, it's slightly unnerving to be staying overnight at Mary MacKillop Place. Once inside my hostel-style room - formerly used as nun's quarters - I plunge straight back into high-school memories of nights spent on retreats in similar accommodation, writes Angie Kelly in the Sun-Herald.
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04-Sep-2011
“People were angry at God and they had every right to be, but that was not my experience,” Joseph Pfeifer, chief of the New York Fire Departmentt said of September 11. His brother, Kevin Pfeifer, also of the New York Fire Department, died at the World Trade Centre that day, reports America magazine.
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08-Sep-2011
Mary Ward International Australia is part of the global MWI network supporting the Loreto Sisters’ justice and development work. MWIA creates opportunities for individuals, groups and networks to collaborate with our Australian and international missions for justice and development.
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07-Sep-2011
A new social justice resource – an eight-minute film, Cyber Sin - will be screened in Sydney’s Catholic schools as part of a major resource in the war on cyber-bullying. The website has details of the film and a link that allows viewers to watch it.
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06-Sep-2011
Caritas Australia's Global Gifts section has a wide range of special gift ideas for the coming Christmas and holiday season.
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05-Sep-2011
The provincial of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Australia and Pacific, Fr Frank Moloney SDB, has responded to the recent allegations made by the Age newspaper about a "cover-up" by the Salesians. The order's website features two letters he wrote to the paper, both of which were unpublished.
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04-Sep-2011
Two Brothers from the Taize community in France are visiting Vic, ACT, NSW and QLD this week. They will hold services aimed at the 18-35 age group.
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06-Sep-2011
This is a film about American racism, as late as 1967. Some of the sequences are so effective in displaying how seemingly well brought up young woman can be so patronising, condescending and unjust to their maids, ‘the help’.
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07-Sep-2011
This week, Compass examines the deep and enduring social, religious and cultural implications of 9/11 from an Australian perspective.
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08-Sep-2011
The September 11 attacks prompted a major critique against Islamism in particular and against 'fundamentalist' religion in general, and kick-started an international atheist movement. This program features three prominent advocates from Islam, Christianity and Judaism to discuss God after Ground Zero.
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08-Sep-2011
The Holy See reaction to the Irish report is marked by a failure to address core concerns, writes Patsy McGarry in the Irish Times.
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07-Sep-2011
The revised version of the Missal in English has more than its share of linguistic oddities, writes Mike MacLachlan in Ucanews.
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06-Sep-2011
The new translation of the Mass is now up and running, and its launch seems to have passed off without any awkwardness at all, writes William Oddie in the Catholic Herald.
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05-Sep-2011
Last week's release of four research papers commissioned by the Gonski review reveal a deep-seated antipathy to non-government schools and a desire to restrict their growth and to micromanage them by imposing increased government regulation and control, writes Kevin Donnelly in ABC Unleashed.
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04-Sep-2011
Steve Jobs, played a pivotal role in the shaping of the publishing and media landscapes in recent decades. The developments initiated by Jobs and Apple are of profound significance for the Church - for better and for worse, writes Mick Kelly in Eureka Street.
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05-Sep-2011
Anne Henderson will give a talk about Recognising Women of Faith tomorrow night at the upcoming St Thomas More forum in Canberra. Henderson is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute and author of a biography of Sister Irene McCormack (pictured).
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04-Sep-2011
The 6th national econference of Following Jesus - Matthew, takes place tomorrow from 10.30am - 2.50pm. The popular eConferences are a fantastic opportunity for faith formation and also provide an ideal opportunity for interaction with local faith communities.
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