News - National
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29-Sep-2011
The Australian Human Rights Commission has criticised the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre for being overcrowded, under resourced and dehumanising to asylum seekers, reports The West Australian.
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29-Sep-2011
Lawyers for victims of sexual abuse say the Catholic Church has used a legal technicality to reduce compensation payouts to their clients, reports the ABC.
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28-Sep-2011
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty has delivered a formal apology to unwed mothers affected by the practices in the past - having their babies taken from them and placed up for adoption - in an address to a Senate inquiry.
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27-Sep-2011
Father Frank Brennan, SJ, believes Kevin Rudd would never have taken Labor down the path of expelling child asylum seekers to Malaysia, reports The Australian from his piece on Eureka Street.
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26-Sep-2011
The Independent Education Union has joined calls to revise the new history curriculum to include more about Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations, saying you cannot give children a "watered-down" version of the past, reports The Australian.
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26-Sep-2011
The Traditional Anglican Communion primate Archbishop John Hepworth has rebuffed calls for his resignation by his clergy in the US, reports The Australian.
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25-Sep-2011
Patients using 12 leading private hospitals in Australia have a far higher than average chance of dying, shows a contentious analysis of private health insurance data by Flinders Medical Centre professor David Ben-Tovim, reports The Australian.
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25-Sep-2011
Senator Xenophon has indicated he might not have used parliamentary privilege to name a priest accused of rape had he known the man was about to take leave, reports The Advertiser.
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25-Sep-2011
Men make up fewer than 20 percent of primary school teachers in NSW, yet have almost 50 percent of principal positions, the Daily Telegraph reports - because female teachers who won't seek promotion.
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28-Sep-2011
An out-of-court settlement to a six-year dispute between Queensland's St Vincent de Paul Society and Ozcare has been called "a great day for both organisations and the Church", reports The Catholic Leader.
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28-Sep-2011
Street preachers at the Rundle Mall shopping precinct in Adelaide want to negotiate to end a feud with the Adelaide City Council, reports The Advertiser.
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28-Sep-2011
A coin from the mid-1800s is among items found by Adelaide's Flinders University archaeological dig team at the site in South Australia where St Mary MacKillop established St Joseph's school, reports the ABC.
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27-Sep-2011
Incoming South Australian premier Jay Weatherill is preparing to dispense with the Labor government's social inclusion unit, a model the Rudd government adopted in 2007 with Julia Gillard as minister for social inclusion, reports The Australian.
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27-Sep-2011
Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson doesn't believe an independent inquiry is needed into the sexual abuse of disabled children but says he understands the pain suffered by their parents, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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26-Sep-2011
The Church has defended itself against claims it tried to cover up a police investigation into the abuse of intellectually disabled children at one of its Adelaide schools, reports The Australian.
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News - International
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29-Sep-2011
The Vatican has called on diocesan bishops to encourage priests who have left ministry in order to get married to play a more active role in parish life, reports The Catholic Herald.
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29-Sep-2011
The founder and editorial director of the Catholic news agency Zenit has resigned, citing problems of trust and transparency with Zenit's sponsoring organisation, the Legionaries of Christ, reports The Catholic Herald.
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28-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict has removed some responsibilities from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments so that it can focus on the renewal of liturgy, Vatican Radio reports.
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27-Sep-2011
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time in a project launched by Israel's national museum and Google, said an AAP report on the CIO website.
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26-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict's visit to Germany highlighted two challenges for the church: how to re-evangelise traditionally Christian countries in the West, and how to regain a credible voice in modern society, reports the Catholic News Service.
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25-Sep-2011
It is better to be a searching agnostic than a fake believer, Pope Benedict told the faithful gathered for the Mass on his final day in Germany, reports the Vatican Insider.
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27-Sep-2011
In 2003, Pope John Paul II sent the Italian Cardinal, Pio Laghi, to intervene with President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, but the US leader rejected the appeal claiming he was "convinced it was God's will", reports the Vatican Insider.
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26-Sep-2011
A leading Catholic pro-life group whose leader is under scrutiny for failing to disclose financial details reported a US$1.4 million ($1.44 million) deficit in 2010 despite collecting tens of millions of dollars in donations in recent years, said a Religion News Service report on NCR.
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25-Sep-2011
Italian newspaper Libero reports that Pope Benedict is thinking about resigning in April next year when he turns 85, according to the Vatican Insider. But the Vatican has dismissed the Libero report, Reuters says.
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28-Sep-2011
A Catholic school in Thailand has apologised after students dressed up as Nazis for a sports day parade, saying students had not intended to cause offence, according to an AFP report on the ABC.
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27-Sep-2011
The suicide bomber Achmad Yosepa Hayat, who blew himself up on the steps of a church in Central Java, is the most recent link in a terrorist lineage extending back to Bali 2001 and the master bomb-maker Azahari Husin, reports The Australian.
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25-Sep-2011
A suicide bomber has attacked a packed Indonesian Protestant church in Central Java, wounding at least 27 people - some critically - and sending terrified worshippers rushing out into the streets in panic, said a report on news.com.au.
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29-Sep-2011
The lawyer of an Iranian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy is hopeful an appeals court will acquit him, reports Kerryman.ie.
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29-Sep-2011
Indian children across multiple religious backgrounds believe in God but differ in how they perceive God, a recent study has found, reports ucanews.com.
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26-Sep-2011
China said Monday any successor chosen by the Dalai Lama would be "illegal" after the Tibetan spiritual leader announced that he, and not Beijing, would decide whether he should be reincarnated, said an AFP report in The West Australian.
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Regulars
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29-Sep-2011
The idea that we invented God rather than God inventing us is often regarded as a modern one. While it only came to full expression in the last two centuries, its roots actually lie almost three millennia back, writes Robert Banks at the ABC's Religion and Ethics.
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28-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict XVI really is an intellectual; and his speech to the Bundestag last Thursday, when he began his state visit to Germany, is dense with ideas, writes Andrew Brown at the Guardian.
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27-Sep-2011
Turning back time ... the pain of past adoption practices still lingers. What can be done to mend hearts broken in the past, asks Martin Laverty.
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26-Sep-2011
In the past six years, one lone crusader has persuaded around 1,000 pregnant Vietnamese women against having an abortion, reports ucanews.com.
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25-Sep-2011
Born to an Irish Catholic father, Kathleen Mills is a musician, poet and passionate activist who lives her life the "old way". The beloved Territory elder is fiercely proud of her ancient family and culture, writes Ellie Turner.
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29-Sep-2011
The Catholic Writers Guild says it is aiming for a "rebirth of Catholic Arts and Letters".
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28-Sep-2011
eBible is an online Bible website with many versions available and offering the capacity to highlight passages and make annotations. - eBible.com
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27-Sep-2011
On 25th September, the Antioch Youth Movement celebrated its thirty years in Australia with a Mass of Thanksgiving and a Combined Communities Meeting.
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26-Sep-2011
Compass is the Australian review of topical theology published quarterly by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
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25-Sep-2011
The Internet Archive is an online repository of public domain books and documents that are now available for reading or download in a variety of formats. It also contains an amazing variety of Catholic resources. - www.archive.org
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29-Sep-2011
This action-adventure thriller takes the usual route of an unsuspecting hero being relentlessly pursued by sinister enemies, who have an evil agenda of their own. - Fr Peter Malone MSC
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28-Sep-2011
It is eight years since the last Spy Kids movie, the third in the series. (This) is as good as any of the others, better than Spy Kids 3. - Father Peter Malone MSC
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27-Sep-2011
This 2002 film has just been released with a 3D makeover. - Fr Peter Malone MSC
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29-Sep-2011
Fr Jose Reynel Restrepo, the 36 year old pastor of the Catholic Church in the town of Marmato in Colombia, was assassinated Sept. 1 a few days after he had publicly condemned a mining company plan to wipe out his entire parish and town, writes Fr John Dear SJ.
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28-Sep-2011
This week the ABC's Four Corners program investigated abuse cases at St Ann's Special School in Adelaide. Now the ABC has made available the full interview with Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson.
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27-Sep-2011
Last week my friend, Mohammed, was deported from Australia and I feel sick. I believe he was deported to danger. I believe that he believes he has been deported to danger, writes Fabia Claridge at New Matilda.
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26-Sep-2011
"Building Bridges, Not Walls", this year's social justice statement on prisons, is as powerful an expose of Australian society's turning away from the message of Jesus Christ as could be written, writes Greg Barns.
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25-Sep-2011
The more Archbishop John Hepworth talks, the more it seems a great wrong has been done. But perhaps not to him, writes Andrew Bolt in the Herald-Sun.
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26-Sep-2011
Bishop Julian Porteous will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Transformation Luncheon at the NSW Parliament House on the theme "New Wine and Fresh Skins".
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25-Sep-2011
American pro-life activist Cindy Collins will speak at Terrigal on the unique ground breaking legislation enacted by the State of Louisiana called the "Signs of Hope Act", which requires the prominent display of Women's Right to Know signs in abortion clinics.
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