News - National
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13-Oct-2011
Representatives from the Catholic Health Australia network were among more than 500 people who marched on Parliament this week to demand funding to address Australia's dementia epidemic, said the organisation in a media release.
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13-Oct-2011
Bishop Vincent Long, Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, has appealed for the Australian spirit of a "fair go to the underdog" to prevail in the issue of asylum seekers, the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne said.
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13-Oct-2011
There are "distinct dangers" for public schools relying on religious organisations for donations, says former High Court judge Michael Kirby, according to an AAP report in the Australian.
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12-Oct-2011
Caritas Australia has applauded a decision by the Federal Government to match funds raised for the East Africa Crisis by aid and development agencies, reports the the Catholic Weekly.
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11-Oct-2011
The Mary MacKillop Foundation is inviting all Australians to wear the national colours this Friday and participate in an attempt to set a new record for Zumba Fitness parties across the country, according to a media statement on NewsMaker.
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10-Oct-2011
The government must act to increase the Newstart Allowance, improve housing affordability and remove disincentives for people to increase their workforce participation, Catholic Social Services Australia said in a statement in response to the Tax Forum held last week.
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10-Oct-2011
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has come out in strong support of the proposed poker machine reforms, warning that the penetration of gambling culture into sport and media ''bodes ill for the future of sport in this country'', reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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10-Oct-2011
The leader of Australia's 70,000 Coptic Christians has urged Australia to expel the Egyptian ambassador over Sunday's massacre in Cairo, saying the ambassador sought to silence Copts in this country, reports the Age.
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10-Oct-2011
Young couples' financial independence is contributing to a surge in the number of civil wedding ceremonies and registry nuptials - with just a third of marriages now taking place in church, reports the Advertiser.
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06-Oct-2011
The push to recognise sharia law in Australia has entered an ambitious new phase that draws on the tactics that have handed success to Islamists in Britain, says The Australian.
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12-Oct-2011
A Catholic school in Gippsland has questioned whether it is being discriminated against by being banned from a generations-old community Victorian campground, reports the Herald Sun.
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09-Oct-2011
The matter of clerical abuse "hasn't helped the image of the priesthood" in an area where there is a shortage of pastors, said the administrator of the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese, reports the ABC.
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12-Oct-2011
A provocative Ansell condom advertisement in a bus shelter near a Catholic school in Brisbane has been pulled down following a complaint from the Australian Christian Lobby, reports AdNews.
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11-Oct-2011
An advertisement of a couple provocatively entwined next to a packet of condoms has drawn the ire of the Australian Christian Lobby because it was placed in a Brisbane bus shelter close to a Catholic primary school, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Oct-2011
A prominent Adelaide businessman, the former head of Mitsubishi in Australia, has come to the defence of an Adelaide priest accused of rape and named in parliament by Senator Nick Xenophon, said a report on news.com.au.
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09-Oct-2011
A program called Leap Ahead is being trialled by the Archdiocese of Adelaide to help isolated parishes reach out to youth through technology such as Skype, reports the Advertiser.
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11-Oct-2011
Three Vietnamese asylum seekers who escaped immigration detention after slipping away during a Mass in Darwin last month have been picked up by police about 110 kilometres away, said a report on news.ninemsn.com.au.
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News - International
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12-Oct-2011
Pope Benedict has condemned the attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, saying that during the transition to democracy all of the country's citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities, reports the Catholic Herald.
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10-Oct-2011
The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) will respond to the Vatican's conditions for reconciliation "in a reasonable time," its leaders said following a meeting last Friday. They did not announce a decision or say when they would do so, said a Religion News Service report on the Washington Post.
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10-Oct-2011
Zenit news service's six editors have resigned their positions, citing their disagreement with the Legionaries of Christ's plans to increase the outlet's ties to the order, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Oct-2011
Deaf Catholic communities in the US are preparing for the new Roman Missal, thanks to free online resources, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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06-Oct-2011
Ministering in a city where crime is pervasive and murders occur at an alarming rate, Columban Father Kevin Mullins knows he's been very fortunate, writes Joseph Kolb for the Catholic News Service.
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13-Oct-2011
It was standing room only last Sunday at the Saint Pierre-d'Arene church in Nice, France, at an annual Mass for the animals, reports the weeklytimesnow.
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13-Oct-2011
Britain's leader, David Cameron, has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard ahead of a Commonwealth leaders' summit in Perth, proposing to change the centuries-old tradition that males automatically wear the crown, said a report in the Age. Catholics would continue to be barred from the throne.
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12-Oct-2011
Belgium's Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard has sparked fresh controversy on Wednesday after recommending divorcees not be allowed to teach at Catholic schools, said a SAPA-AFP report on iol news.
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11-Oct-2011
A man who says he was abused by a priest as a child has walked more than 500 kilometres to deliver a letter asking the Pope to meet Italian victims of abuse, said a Catholic News Service report on the National Catholic Reporter.
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09-Oct-2011
A priest wrongly accused of raping a teenager in Kenya and fathering her child has been welcomed back home to his parish in Ireland, reports Kerryman.ie.
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09-Oct-2011
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the organised crime that blights Italy's far south during a one-day visit to the area, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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09-Oct-2011
Members of the Austrian Priests' Initiative, led by Vienna's former vicar-general Mgr Helmut Schüller, have said they cannot revoke the "Call to Disobedience" issued in June, reports the Tablet.
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09-Oct-2011
Pope Benedict will open Domus Australia, the new home away from home for Australians in central Rome, on Wednesday week, reports the Australian.
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12-Oct-2011
A Colombian football player who plays for a club in Saudia Arabia was detained for walking through a Saudi mall wearing a sleeveless shirt that revealed religious tattoos, including one of Jesus, said a report on news.com.au.
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11-Oct-2011
Egypt's caretaker military government "doesn't give a damn" about the suffering of the country's Christian minority, according to a spokesperson for the Greek Melkite Catholic church in Egypt, in an interview with Vatican Radio, according to NCR.
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Regulars
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13-Oct-2011
Robert Bellah, one of America’s most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with his new book Religion in Human Ecvolution, a nearly 800-page magnum opus that delves deep into the roots of humankind’s encounter with mystery and the search for meaning, reports CathNews USA.
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12-Oct-2011
Despite his fame as guitarist with the Beatles, George Harrison's greatest legacy may be the way his decades-long spiritual quest shaped the ways the West looks at God, gurus and life, reports NCR Online.
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11-Oct-2011
In August I joined a pilgrimage that left Subiaco in Perth with 23 other pilgrims and reached New Norcia six days later. We walked 170 kilometres in the seven days. It was strenuous and challenging at times, writes Margaret Malone SGS (pictured on the pilgirmage), in the Good Oil.
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10-Oct-2011
Two recent books argue that explorers Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama were more like Christian crusaders than greedy mercenaries or curious adventurers. Other historians, however, remain sceptical, reports the ReligionNews Service in NCR Online.
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09-Oct-2011
Your own acts of generosity can seem inconsequential when your favourite singer has just secured 30,000 signatures for an Oxfam petition. Can our contributions really make a difference? One 16-year-old demonstrates that youth and lack of fame needn’t be a barrier, reports Australian Catholics.
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13-Oct-2011
Bishop Anthony Fisher OP recently opened & blessed the new Aboriginal Catholic Services Centre in the grounds of Holy Family Parish at Emerton. ACS is a service of CatholicCare Parramatta, and the Dicoese has a video of the opening.
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12-Oct-2011
On September 28, Catholic Mission, Parramatta Institute for Mission and Columban Mission Institute co-hosted the consultation entitled "Breaking Open the Lineamenta: Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ in 21st Century Australia" at St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta. St Columbans website has full details of the event.
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11-Oct-2011
Good Grief is committed to relieving suffering and bringing hope to people affected by change, loss and grief. It is holding a training workshop at Mary MacKillop Place tomorrow and Friday.
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10-Oct-2011
Teams Oceania Catholic Marriage Conference was held in Adelaide over the weekend and the conference's website has details of the event, including the launch of a new marriage anthem.
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09-Oct-2011
The Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga has just launched its new website to help meet the increasing demand from around the world for information about the cause of Dr Sr Mary Glowrey JMJ.
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12-Oct-2011
This film is a re-make of the 1984 musical of the same title, and the story-line remains much the same as the original film. The focus, as before, is on dancing, but this version is lot more dramatic and physical, than was the original, 27 years ago.
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11-Oct-2011
This is a striking and thought-provoking film. On the one hand, there is a ‘realistic’ story about a man and his family, their ordinary lives at home, the man and his work and his prospects. On the other hand, there is far more, as the film goes into the man’s mind, his imagination, his dreams as he discovers mental torment and premonitions about an apocalyptic threat.
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10-Oct-2011
Norwegian Wood is adapted from the 1987 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.The title comes from the Beatles song, about an affair in which a woman uses a man to get what she wants, and then departs. Its meaning is highly relevant to the film.
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09-Oct-2011
This film pays homage to the iconic status of the Melbourne Cup. It portrays the true story of Jason Oliver (Daniel MacPherson) and Damien Oliver (Stephen Curry), who were brothers and best mates. They rode together and competed against each other for horse-racing glory. One week prior to the running of The Cup, a tragic track incident claimed Jason’s life.
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13-Oct-2011
Here is a rare event: a refreshing and engaging book on the historical Jesus. José Pagola challenges the tired clichés with which Jesus is all too often arrayed and aims to ‘approximate’ Jesus with historical rigour and in simple language, writes Nicholas King SJ in Thinking Faith.
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13-Oct-2011
The Gonski review into education funding, now 80 per cent complete, has the trappings of a good public inquiry, operating transparently, consulting extensively and relying on research. But it is a failure on several counts, writes Scott Prasser in the Australian.
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12-Oct-2011
Most Australian Catholic Bishops are in Rome this week for their five yearly joint visit to the Vatican. Most popular reflection on the visit has focused on issues internal to the Catholic Church, such as the dismissal of Bishop Bill Morris, the handling of sexual abuse and the introduction of the new translation of the Mass, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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11-Oct-2011
In the flood of commentary surrounding the tenth anniversary of September 11, I found but one reference to a related anniversary of considerable importance: the fifth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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10-Oct-2011
Why did the coverage of Steve jobs's death in most venues seem, for want of a better word, worshipful? A few reasons suggest themselves. I'm not suggesting that he was a saint. But consider the following, writes Rev James Martin in Huffington Post.
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09-Oct-2011
If religious art is taken seriously, is it really appreciated by those don't believe? Can they fully understand it, indeed conceive of these other minds in another time and place where faith held sway, writes Catherine Pepinster in the Guardian.
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