News - National
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16-Sep-2011
Adelaide Archdiocese Vicar General Monsignor David Cappo has resigned as chairman of the new commission overseeing mental health services, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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16-Sep-2011
Independent senator Nick Xenophon has accused the head of the Archdiocese of Adelaide of double standards, reports The Australian.
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16-Sep-2011
A video installation examining Islamic faith and prayer has won this year's Blake Prize for religious art, reports The West Australian.
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15-Sep-2011
Monsignor David Cappo said Prime Minister Julia Gillard picked him to lead national mental health reform because she recognised the issue had the potential to be a vote-changer, reports The Australian.
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15-Sep-2011
Australia needs moral and ethical parameters articulated immediately, which will help in dealing with the issue of migrants and refugees, said Bishop of Sale, Bishop Christopher Prowse, according to The Catholic Weekly.
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12-Sep-2011
CathNews has taken the gold award for Best Electronic Publication at the Australian Religious Press Association Awards for Excellence.
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11-Sep-2011
St Francis Xavier College in Melbourne is one of 150 schools nationally involved in a trial of the new Australian curriculum, reports the Age.
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11-Sep-2011
Hundreds of people have gathered at a memorial service St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney to remember the nearly 3000 people killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Sep-2011
Seven students have been recognised for their school achievements by Sydney's Archbishop, Cardinal George Pell, at an awards reception at St Mary's Cathedral.
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16-Sep-2011
A priest from Mount Isa in Queensland expressed support for civil unions for homosexual couples - but said marriage, in the eyes of the church, would remain solely for heterosexual couples, reports The North West Star.
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15-Sep-2011
A priest accused by Senator Nick Xenophon in parliament of raping another priest has denied the allegations and said he may seek to make a statement in the Senate to clear his name, reports The Australian.
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13-Sep-2011
Senator Nick Xenophon has ignored pleas from the Archdiocese of Adelaide and used parliamentary privilege to name a priest accused of abusing a fellow seminarian 50 years ago, said report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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12-Sep-2011
Independent senator Nick Xenophon said he will name in parliament a priest accused of abuse in South Australia, unless the Church stands the priest down today, reports the Australian.
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12-Sep-2011
Doctors and lawyers in South Australia have opposed the latest moves in state parliament to legalise euthanasia, reports AdelaideNow from the Advertiser.
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11-Sep-2011
The Archdiocese of Adelaide has denied that investigations have been delayed into allegations made by Traditional Anglican Communion leader Archbishop John Hepworth of rape and other abuse, reports the Australian.
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News - International
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15-Sep-2011
The traditionalist Society of St Pius X could be offered the status of a personal prelature within the Church if it agrees to some core Church teachings outlined at a meeting in Rome yesterday, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Sep-2011
Lawyers for clerical sex abuse victims have filed a petition with the International Criminal Court, urging an investigation of high-ranking Church leaders, including Pope Benedict, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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11-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict has urged the British Government to root its policies in objective values, saying this is "especially important in the light of events in England this summer", reports the Catholic Herald.
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11-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict has condemned violence in God's name, but said that 10 years after the September 11 attacks, the world still had much to do to address the grievances that can give rise to acts of terrorism, said a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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12-Sep-2011
US bishops are working to mobilise Catholics across the country to tell the Obama administration that contraception and steriliation do not constitute preventive care for women and must not be mandated as part of health reform, said a Catholic News Service report on NCR.
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16-Sep-2011
A writer and expert on literature, Jesuit Antonio Spadaro, 45, has been appointed the new director of La Civiltà Cattolica, the magazine of the Rome Jesuits, said an article on chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it.
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16-Sep-2011
Visitors and pilgrims can now take a ride on an eco-friendly methane-fueled minibus through the Vatican Gardens, Catholic News Service.
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15-Sep-2011
The retired Bishop of Derry in Ireland - who led the diocese for 19 years during the Northern Ireland Troubles - has become the first senior Irish Catholic cleric to call for an end to compulsory celibacy for priests, said a Guardian report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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13-Sep-2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury's office is not commenting on rumours that the Church of England Archbishop Rowan Williams is to quit next year, reports Christian Today.
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13-Sep-2011
The Vatican is close to an agreement with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX),Catholic Culture reports, quoting an analysis from French newspaper Le Figaro.
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13-Sep-2011
The secret service of the former East Germany had numerous unofficial agents assigned to follow Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, a German radio station reported, according to Newsmax.
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13-Sep-2011
A German court has ruled that a Catholic hospital should reinstate a divorced doctor who was fired from his job because he remarried, said a Religion News Service report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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12-Sep-2011
The Heads of Christian Churches in Jerusalem have released a message ahead of the upcoming General Assembly of the United Nations this month and the bid for Palestinian statehood, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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15-Sep-2011
Aid groups are appealing for more money to help more than 12 million people affected by drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, in a situation described as the worst drought in 60 years, reports Vatican Radio.
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12-Sep-2011
Six months after the Japanese earthquake that killed over 15,000 and left 4,000 missing, several areas that were impossible to recognise until recently are finally back to life, reports the Vatican Insider.
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Regulars
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16-Sep-2011
In just six years, Benedict XVI has shaped the Church through his appointments of key clergy to high office in Rome and is overwhelmingly led by "Romanized" Western Europeans (and North Americans), writes Robert Mickens in The Tablet.
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15-Sep-2011
Jose Horacio Gomez tells an American story "not of colonial settlement and political and economic opportunity" but "of exploration and evangelisation". This story is not Anglo-Protestant but Hispanic-Catholic. It is centered, not in New England but in Nueva España – New Spain – at opposite corners of the continent, Gomez writes.
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13-Sep-2011
A conversation between a Josephite Sister and a senior school teacher has produced an innovative approach to Special Religious Education in three local primary schools, reports Aurora magazine.
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12-Sep-2011
Half a millennium has passed since missionaries arrived in what is now Latin America, and the region is now considered the most Catholic in the world. So why does it need missionaries? reports the Religion News Service, published in NCR Online.
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11-Sep-2011
When Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane spoke in Madrid recently (pictured) of standing on Mount Sinai about a week earlier and seeing the sun rise "through God's holy power" there was a sense of a peak life moment, reports the Catholic Leader.
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16-Sep-2011
The Franciscans of the Immaculate were founded by the two Franciscan friars, Fr Stefano Maria Manelli and Fr Gabriel Maria Pellettieri.
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15-Sep-2011
Founded by Dutch Scheutist priest, Fr Francis Senden, the Asian Social Institute is a Catholic inspired graduate school in Manila focusing on training future church leaders in the field of social development.
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13-Sep-2011
The Blake Prize for religious and spiritual art will be announced tomorrow, with an exhibition of finalists to open in Sydney on the same day. The Prize website has details of the exhibition, how to view entries and galleries of history of previous winners.
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12-Sep-2011
In the lead-up to the anniversary of the devastating floods and Cyclone Yasi in Queensland, two Sisters of St Joseph ware now travelling through the state until October 27 as part of the Travelling Sisters Roadshow – Australian Disaster Recovery.
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11-Sep-2011
Foster Care Week, which has a number of Catholic community group sponsors, opened yesterday with a carnival. Full details of the week-long events can be found on the website.
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15-Sep-2011
Based on Joe Dunthorne’s novel of the same name, Submarine is an edgy, good natured coming of age story that looks back without anger or undue sentimentality at growing up Welsh in the ‘swinging’ 1980s. - Joel Epstein
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13-Sep-2011
This is an unusual documentary that has resulted from people in 192 countries sending in the videos they have recorded on one special day - Saturday, July 24, 2010. People were asked what do they most love in life, and what do they most fear. Some of their answers are extraordinary.
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11-Sep-2011
This is not another film exploring the Catholic priesthood and celibacy. Rather, this is another graphic novel (from a Korean author) showing the struggle between good and evil.
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16-Sep-2011
By using parliamentary privilege to name an alleged perpetrator identified by schismatic Anglican leader John Hepworth, even against Hepworth's expressed wishes, Xenophon has stepped across a line from the independence of spirit that has won him many admirers, writes Andrew McGowan.
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15-Sep-2011
Father-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez explain their motivations in making the film 'The Way' in this interview with Tim Drake at the National Catholic Register.
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13-Sep-2011
On the fifth anniversary of the Pope’s seismic lecture, we are betraying persecuted Christians in Muslim lands, writes Douglas Murray in the Catholic Herald.
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12-Sep-2011
Only two logical possibilities arise from the Irish government’s statement about Cloyne last week. Either Enda Kenny (pictured) has evidence of the 2008 Vatican interference he alleged – and he is withholding it; or he has no such evidence of interference and is covering up the fact he made a false statement, writes Rory Fitzgerald in the Catholic Herald.
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11-Sep-2011
Did the events of September 11, 2001 change the future of interreligious relations? Michael Barnes SJ offers an in-depth analysis of the place of religion in the public consciousness over the last ten years, and of how this has affected the way in which religions talk to one another, in Thinking Faith.
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15-Sep-2011
On Thursday 22 September, Greg Sheridan, foreign editor for The Australian, will speak on the topic 'What role can or should religion play in a modern nation?' at a Deakin University public lecture.
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12-Sep-2011
This Sunday, September 18, Mary Ward International Australia (MWIA), the office for justice and development projects of the IBVM Loreto Sisters, invites readers to the National Gallery of Victoria for a special viewing of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Vienna: Art & Design.
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