News - National
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22-Sep-2011
The priest named as an alleged rapist by Senator Nick Xenophon has the right to respond to the allegations in the Senate, a Senate Privileges Committee ruled on Thursday, reports The Advertiser.
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21-Sep-2011
A Senate committee will consider complaints about Senator Nick Xenophon's use of privilege last week to name a priest accused of rape, reports The Advertiser.
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21-Sep-2011
The Australian Catholic Bishops' statement for Social Justice Sunday, on Sept. 25, points out serious shortcomings in Australia's prisons and in the justice systems, said a media release from the bishops.
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21-Sep-2011
A former Dominican sister who says she has been properly ordained as a woman bishop is in Australia for a series of conferences, reports The Age.
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19-Sep-2011
The priest named by Senator Nick Xenophon over alleged sexual abuse of a fellow cleric has revealed damage to his mental and physical health since the Catholic Church began investigating the allegations in February. reports The Australian.
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19-Sep-2011
Islamic religious law, or sharia, is often vilified but is really about freedom and tolerance, Australia's new grand mufti said, according to the Herald Sun.
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19-Sep-2011
The Gillard government's plan to save cash by tightening eligibility for disability pensions has received the nod from a Senate parliamentary inquiry, but welfare groups and a dissenting Greens senator are critical, said an AAP report in the Herald Sun.
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18-Sep-2011
A third party, who attended the meetings between Monsignor David Cappo and Archbishop John Hepworth, has disputed some claims made by the Adelaide archdiocese in its defence of accusations by Senator Nick Xenophon, reports The Australian.
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18-Sep-2011
Findings from a survey of principals in primary and secondary schools across Australia reveal school leaders are highly stressed and doubt whether they are well equipped to implement the broad suite of policy changes, reports The Age. Only 47 percent agree with the current national reform agenda.
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21-Sep-2011
Victims of abuse by Christian Brothers will launch a class action against the order, with a Melbourne lawyer calling for more abused students to come forward, reports The Courier.
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20-Sep-2011
South Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire is launching a plea to the Church to avoid being made to retire, reports the Herald Sun.
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20-Sep-2011
Victims of convicted Christian Brother Robert Best have called his appeal against his convictions is a heinous and insulting act, said an AAP report in the Herald Sun.
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18-Sep-2011
St Vincent's Health has been contracted by the Department of Justice in Victoria to distribute condoms and dental dams to prisoners at Dhurringile and Marngoneet men's prisons and the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and Tarrengower women's prison, reports the Herald Sun.
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18-Sep-2011
A nursing home run by a former Labor aged care minister, Peter Staples, has been ordered to pay a Catholic priest $47,500 for unfair dismissal, reports The Age.
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22-Sep-2011
Religious groups who call the Scenic Hills near Sydney home have spoken out against AGL's plans to ramp up coal-seam gas exploration in the area, reports the Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser.
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22-Sep-2011
An eight-minute film – Cyber Sin – will be available to Sydney's Catholic schools as part of a campaign to tackle cyber bullying, reports the Northern District Times.
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20-Sep-2011
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy will be able to sue local parishes where the crimes occurred, under changes proposed by the NSW Greens, reports The Australian.
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18-Sep-2011
The Hunter region is facing a dementia epidemic with numbers of people living with the brain disorder expected to quadruple by 2050, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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22-Sep-2011
A South Australian indigenous organisation has accused the Rann Labor government and its senior social issues adviser, Monsignor David Cappo, of ignoring them, reports The Australian.
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20-Sep-2011
Traditional Anglican Communion Archbishop John Hepworth was offered an investigation into rape claims two years ago but only authorised the Catholic Church to proceed this year, The Advertiser reports.
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19-Sep-2011
Archaeologists will dig at the old stable site where Saint Mary MacKillop started her first school in South Australia, as the first anniversary of her canonisation approaches, said a report on ninemsn.com.au.
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19-Sep-2011
A primary school in Western Australia has stopped the recital of the Lord's Prayer at school assemblies, reports The West Australian.
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21-Sep-2011
The Archbishop of Hobart, Adrian Doyle, has expressed his disappointment with the vote on the floor of the Tasmanian Parliament supporting marriage equality for gays and lesbians, the archdiocese said in a statement.
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20-Sep-2011
Immigration officials quizzed a Darwin priest after three Vietnamese asylum seekers went missing as they attended church, reports ntnews.com.au.
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News - International
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19-Sep-2011
The Vatican is maintaining its neutrality on Palestine's bid for United Nations membership, despite the move being openly backed the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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22-Sep-2011
US woman Bonnie Engstrom remembers praying silently to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen after her baby son was born lifeless and without a pulse for 61 minutes, writes Marianne Medlin for the Catholic News Agency.
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20-Sep-2011
Dolores Hope, who gave up her singing career to spend 69 years at the side of her husband, Bob Hope, has died in the home they bought in 1940 in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald. She was 102.
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22-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict said, ahead of his four-day trip to Germany, that he understands those who have turned their backs on the Catholic Church after the recent sex abuse scandals, said an AFP report in the Herald Sun.
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21-Sep-2011
The young Pope Benedict never fell in love with a girl, his brother said in an interview published on Wednesday, because both brothers knew they wanted to "take another path" that excludes marriage, said an AFP report on news24.
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18-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict on Sunday called upon all Catholics to participate in a new evangelisation of the world, reports the Catholic News Agency, and expressed his hope for his visit to Germany this week.
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Regulars
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22-Sep-2011
Eugenics — the science of improving the race — was a powerful influence on the development of Western civilisation in the first half of the twentieth century. And Melbourne's elite were among its chief proponents, writes Ross L. Jones at The Conversation.
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21-Sep-2011
The developments of the Arab spring are causing concern to leaders of Eastern Christian communities, who have by now started to openly express their fears with regard to an rise in Islamic radicalism in the New Middle East. - Giacomo Galeazzi
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20-Sep-2011
Austria infelix. It is still causing conflict between Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and dissidents. This wekend, the Archbishop of Vienna spoke out about the risk of a schism in the Austrian Catholic Church. - Vatican Insider
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19-Sep-2011
Fr Robert Reyes is a Filipino Catholic priest, but he is better known for putting on his running shoes and jogging around the country promoting different causes. - Kate McGeown, BBC News
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18-Sep-2011
As we respond to the call for the new evangelisation, there are growing signs of new, constructive cooperation between bishops and theologians at Catholic universities, writes Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl in America Magazine.
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22-Sep-2011
Being Catholic, which described itself as an e-journal for Catholic educators who come from both within and without the Catholic tradition, has relaunched its website with a clean fresh look.
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21-Sep-2011
Food meets faith at the Catholic Foodie, according to website creator and podcaster Jeff Young.
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20-Sep-2011
This year the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Congregation celebrate the centenary of the formation of their Australian Province. As well as working in every Australian state, the sisters also have projects in 27 countries.
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19-Sep-2011
The current global financial crisis may be recent but Washington Catholic think tank the Center of Concern has been studying reform of the world's financial institutions since 1995 - Rethinking Bretton Woods
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18-Sep-2011
Josephite missionary Sr Mary Noonan has launched a website that traces the stories of her 85 years of life from her birth in Tasmania to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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22-Sep-2011
Older grandparents accompanying their grandchildren will remember the Francis the Talking Mule movies of the 1950s. Parents will remember all kinds of talking animals on the large and small screen. Here's another one. - Fr Peter Malone MSC
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20-Sep-2011
No novelist has better conveyed the destructive relationship between a mother and her children than Patrick White in his 1975 novel The Eye of the Storm. Fred Schepisi's film adaptation of The Eye of the Storm, scripted by Judy Morris, is therefore to be commended and admired. - Jan Epstein
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19-Sep-2011
Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) returns in this movie to pit his skills against international assassins, who are plotting to murder the Premier of China with the aid of a mind-control drug that routinely programs anyone to kill. - Peter Sheehan
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22-Sep-2011
With Social Justice Sunday 2011 focusing attention on prison reform this week, Loreto Sister Margaret Finlay reflects on the role of the prison chaplain.
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21-Sep-2011
Today I wonder if we are not perhaps in a phase of "Putinisation" of the Catholic Church. Of course I don't want to compare the Holy Father, as a person, with the unholy Russian statesman. But there are many structural and political similarities. - Hans Kung
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20-Sep-2011
Palestinian students at Bethlehem University talk to Judith Sudilovsky of CNS about how their lives would change if the United Nations recognised Palestine as an independent country.
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19-Sep-2011
In the wake of 9/11, is there a place for pacifism, asks Michael Cantorino.
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18-Sep-2011
(Archbishop) Hepworth has consistently maintained that resolving the question of his own canonical status with the archdiocese, as a victim who had good reason to abandon his priestly duties, was inextricably linked to his role as the TAC's primate and chief negotiator with the Vatican, writes Christopher Pearson in The Australian.
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21-Sep-2011
The United Nations has declared the year 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives and St Mary's University in Quebec, Canada, is hosting a major international summit to mark the occasion.
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18-Sep-2011
Columban Fr Robert McCulloch SSC will deliver the John Duffus Memorial Lecture at Bendigo's Sacred Heart Cathedral tonight on the theme "A mission of compassion in the changing reality of Pakistan".
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