News - National
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15-Nov-2011
Children of married couples have better outcomes than children of de factos or single parents, according to research from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, the Age reports.
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17-Nov-2011
The parish priest of St Mary of the Angels in Geelong has criticised a move allowing local football to be played on Good Friday for the first time next year, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
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16-Nov-2011
Families are being forced to choose between buying their kids essential textbooks or sending them off to school with a packed lunch, according to the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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16-Nov-2011
It is the responsibility of Christian leaders to be principled and ethical in all their dealings, whether as shareholders, employees, customers or clients, said the Archbishop of Sydney, George Cardinal Pell, according to the Catholic Weekly.
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15-Nov-2011
A plan by St Leonard's Catholic Church in Sydney to install bells after almost 100 years of silence could divide the local community, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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14-Nov-2011
Catholic men aged 25-54 earn 6.7 per cent more income than their Protestant counterparts, an analysis of the Household, Income Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey found, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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13-Nov-2011
A parliamentary inquiry will examine whether ethics classes in NSW schools should be abolished, prompting accusations of a deal between Premier Barry O'Farrell and Christian Democratic MP Fred Nile, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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16-Nov-2011
The Archdiocese of Brisbane's new Apostolic Administrator, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett, expects to be in the position for several months until a new archbishop is appointed, reports the Courier-Mail.
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15-Nov-2011
Queensland's Liberal National Party has strongly backed religious instruction in state schools, arguing Islamic and non-religious parents often want children brought up with a Judeo-Christian grounding, reports the Brisbane Times.
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14-Nov-2011
Pope Benedict has approved the retirement of Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane and appointed Lismore's Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett as Apostolic Administrator for the archdiocese, said a report on the Courier-Mail and media statements from the archdiocese.
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13-Nov-2011
The Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba has become the first in the country to launch its reconciliation action plan, aiming to promote respect, relationships and opportunities in every Catholic school, parish and agency, reports the Toowoomba Chronicle.
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13-Nov-2011
On October 10, on a sunny spring day at the Royal Queensland Golf Club, 62-year-old Father Adrian Farrelly of St Agatha's Catholic Parish, Clayfield, landed his first hole-in-one on the course's eighth hole, said the Courier-Mail.
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17-Nov-2011
The ACT Legislative Assembly has passed a motion calling on the Commonwealth to amend the laws to allow same-sex marriage, reports the ABC.
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14-Nov-2011
In future, small communities could watch Sunday Mass on a large screen from a regional centre - one among many suggestions made at an assembly of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, reports the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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17-Nov-2011
The Holy See said it will take legal action against the clothing company Benetton over an advertisement featuring Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim imam, said a report on the Telegraph.co.uk.
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16-Nov-2011
The Vatican has blasted as "completely unacceptable" a new advertisement by the Italian clothing giant Benetton, which shows Pope Benedict XVI kissing an Egyptian imam as part of a new campaign titled "Unhate", said the National Catholic Reporter.
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13-Nov-2011
A new iPhone app called "Ignio" is designed to help Catholics deepen their faith by featuring a digital flame that grows and shrinks according to how much the user prays for friends, attends Mass or reads Scripture, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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16-Nov-2011
An Anglican ordinariate in the United States will be canonically erected on January 1, report the Catholic News Agency and the Catholic News Service.
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14-Nov-2011
US bishops must work to “renew the appeal of the Church,” which has wounds, like Christ did, said Archbishop Timothy Dolan in his first presidential address to the bishops' conference, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Nov-2011
US President Barack Obama met with New York Archbishop, and US Conference of Catholic Bishops President, Timothy Dolan, without fanfare last week, the White House has confirmed, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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17-Nov-2011
Pope Benedict has praised the example of Father Carl Lampert, an Austrian priest who was killed by the Nazis in 1944 and beatified in his native country, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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16-Nov-2011
The Chancellor of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences has called for greater care for the environment, the development of sustainable and a more just economic system, and said a Robin Hood tax made "economic common sense", said a report in the Independent Catholic News.
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15-Nov-2011
Last week in London, the painting Christ as Salvator Mundi went on show to the public for the first time as one of the star attractions of the National Gallery's exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, where it was presented as a lost masterpiece, said a Times report in the Australian.
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14-Nov-2011
Priests in Ireland have been subject to unjustifiable wrongs as people have been misled about the level of sexual and physical abuse committed by them, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said, reports the Irish Times.
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14-Nov-2011
With a tap on an iPad, Pope Benedict XVI will light the world's largest electronic Christmas tree in the Italian town of Gubbio without having to leave his home in Vatican City, reports the Catholic News Service.
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13-Nov-2011
The Church in Holland has ordered an 81-year-old priest to leave his partner of 46 years or be forced to quit the priesthood, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Nov-2011
A religious tolerance bill drafted by the house of representatives in Indonesia threatens inter-religious harmony and must be scrapped, a top Church official told ucanews.com.
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15-Nov-2011
Columban missionaries have joined the Catholic solidarity movement in South Korea opposing the construction of a military base on the Korean island of Jeju, reports Independent Catholic News.
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17-Nov-2011
Church leaders in Kerala, India have expressed shock and outrage over the killing yesterday of tribal rights campaigner Sister Valsa John in the remote east state of Jharkhand, reports ucanews.com.
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17-Nov-2011
Voodoo practitioners are preparing to greet the Pope when he begins his second visit to Africa today, said an AFP report on the AdelaideNow website.
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Regulars
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17-Nov-2011
An emergency feeding program has been operating at the Dadim Primary Health Care Clinic in the famine-declared area of Ethiopia since September in response to Franciscan Sister Maureen Elliott’s appeal for help, reports the Catholic Mission on its website.
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16-Nov-2011
The Archbishop of Havana is declaring his hope and confidence in the reforms undertaken by Raul Castro because he observes that these, though slow, are sustained.“Nothing is sliding backwards, rather the steps have been towards new openings.” he told the Havana Times.
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15-Nov-2011
For twenty-something women considering a life in a habit, it’s God’s honest truth: “Not everyone looks good in black.” So says Triona Adams, an effervescent former nun who, at 26, left her position with a successful London theatrical agency and joined an enclosed Benedictine order in Oxfordshire, England, reports Vanity Fair.
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14-Nov-2011
Caught in a controversy last year over medical ethics and excommunicated, American Mercy Sr Margaret McBride (pictured) thought she would find all of her healing from the church. But she said she found healing in a conversation with the patient who unwittingly was at the centre of the debate, reports NCR Online.
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13-Nov-2011
Father Chris Riley, who teaches English at the Chapel School in Merrylands, is a finalist in NSW for the 2012 Australian of the Year award. But instead of taking plaudits, the charity founder has used the nomination to call on parents to talk to their children, reports the Parramatta-Holroyd Sun.
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17-Nov-2011
American Catholic commentator and biographer of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel, is currently touring Australia. An audio file is available of his interview on the Sunday Night program with John Cleary.
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16-Nov-2011
The Catholic Enquiry Centre is the national faith outreach of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Its purpose is to reach out beyond the Church to offer an invitation to those who are not Catholic to learn about and understand all aspects of the Catholic religion.
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15-Nov-2011
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the declaration of Wollongong as a diocese.
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14-Nov-2011
This website, by the National Catholic Education Commission, has a detailed range of reports and information about the funding of Catholic schools in Australia. It also includes the NCEC's submission to the Gonski review, which is expected to hand down its recommendiations later this year.
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13-Nov-2011
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission. Its principal responsibilities are to review the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom internationally.
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17-Nov-2011
This year has been a bountiful year for Australian films, but the most exciting and original is Jonathan Teplitzsky’s Burning Man, a searing film about a grieving man being incinerated by grief before rising like a phoenix from the ashes.
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16-Nov-2011
The Orator represents an authentic statement of life in Samoa, and it engagingly shows the impact of hierarchy in village life. It has a lyrical quality to it. It is slow, almost languid in pace, but beautiful to experience and to watch.
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15-Nov-2011
This is not a film has to be the title of this home movie from directors, Jafar Panahi Mojtab Mirtahmasb - because Panahi has been sentenced to six years in jail and forbidden to make a film for 20 years.
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14-Nov-2011
Another documentary from Errol Morris who explored police issues in The Thin Blue Line, Robert McNamara’s political advice in The Fog of War and torture in Abu Greb in S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure).This time his touch is light. He is exploring a tabloid story which reminds us that truth can be stranger than fiction.
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13-Nov-2011
In 1966, a young Mossad agent arrives in East Berlin to join her fellow agents. Their task is to capture Dieter Vogel, the “Surgeon of Birkenau”, who was responsible for terrible medical experiments on Jews during World War II, and to bring him back to Israel to face justice.
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17-Nov-2011
While it is hard to identify a coherent program in the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests, it is clear that they have touched a nerve in Western society in regard to how the socio-economic system functions in the aftermath of the great financial crisis of 2008, writes Fr Chris Middleton SJ, Principal of St Aloysius College in Sydney, in Province Express.
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16-Nov-2011
The papal historian Andrea Riccardi has argued that "the Curia cannot become a kind of UN, because it is part of the Roman Church and must maintain a particular ecclesial, human, and cultural connection with it." Permit me to disagree, writers George Weigel in Ethics and Public policy Centre.
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15-Nov-2011
Over the past year there has been a clear effort by the government to corral the already limited religious expression of China’s Catholics, and Beijing has once again begun to ordain bishops without Vatican approval, writes America magazine in an editorial.
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14-Nov-2011
Identity theft is a major crime around the world. In a strangely analogous way, there is concern growing that forces mysterious may even be stealing our Catholic identity. If we had to report such a theft, how would we describe our loss, asks Garry Everett (pictured) in The Good Oil.
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13-Nov-2011
Be wary of using contemporary events for your own long-term gain as it may reveal the vacuity of a cause. Take the recent pleas from those seeking to move on people from outside abortion clinics, like the clinic in East Melbourne, writes Joel Hodge, in ABC Online.
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