News - National
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30-Nov-2011
The Federal Government's extra funding of $28 million for Commonwealth Supported Places for the University of Notre Dame will relieve financial pressure on students, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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29-Nov-2011
Caritas Australia CEO, Jack de Groot, said the figures collected over the year for its 2010-11 annual report demonstrated the generosity of the Catholic community and the rest of the country, according to a media release.
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28-Nov-2011
The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office has welcomed the decision by the Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen to move asylum seekers arriving by boat into the community on bridging visas while their claims are assessed, the office said in a statement.
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28-Nov-2011
Peter Slipper, a fully ordained priest of the Traditional Anglican Communion, may be forced to choose between church and state after being elected Speaker, reports the Australian.
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27-Nov-2011
Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, Archbishop John Hepworth, will only be accepted as a layperson if he is to reconcile with the Catholic Church, reports the Australian.
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30-Nov-2011
The burnt-out St Joseph's Church in Collingwood will remain after Yarra Council rejected an application to replace it with a playground, reports the Melbourne Times Weekly.
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01-Dec-2011
Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, William Wright (pic), says he prays that a convicted former priest will honour the truth when dealing with the latest abuse allegations against him, reports the ABC.
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29-Nov-2011
Catholic HealthCare has won approval for a $38 million development of aged care apartments for the Western Suburbs Hospital site in the Sydey suburb of Croydon. The decision has angered local residents,reports the Inner West Courier.
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28-Nov-2011
Acclaimed artist Paul Newton has finally seen his paintings unveiled in the Domus Australia Chapel in Rome, reports Hill News.
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01-Dec-2011
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has stepped up her support for gay marriage ahead of today's ALP national conference after securing a win in Queensland on same-sex civil unions, reports the Australian.
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30-Nov-2011
The same-sex union bill introduced to Queensland Parliament during the week is "a softener" on ALP delegates opposed to the idea, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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27-Nov-2011
An investigation by a retired Supreme Court judge has found the Church breached canon and civil law when it asked Bill Morris, the Bishop of Toowoomba, to retire, reports the ABC.
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29-Nov-2011
Traditional Anglican Communion primate Archbishop John Hepworth has lodged a complaint with police alleging he was raped by a Catholic priest 40 years ago, reports the Australian.
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28-Nov-2011
An investigation by the Catholic Church has found there is no substance to allegations made by Traditional Anglican Archbishop, John Hepworth, against a parish priest, reports the ABC.
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01-Dec-2011
A Canberra man has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Catholic Education Office of more than $1 million, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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01-Dec-2011
In a statement for World AIDS Day, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers has appealed for access to HIV/AIDS treatments and therapies for all, said a report on the Independent Catholic News.
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27-Nov-2011
Pope Benedict has told bishops of the United States not to be silenced by those who seek to muzzle Catholicism in public life, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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27-Nov-2011
The Holy See has called the "lay branch" of the Legion of Christ to order, with the Pontifical delegate Velasio De Paolis sending out a letter containing instructions on the behaviour expected of its members, reports the Vatican Insider.
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27-Nov-2011
Pope Benedict has urged delegates attending this week's UN climate change conference in South Africa to reach a greenhouse gas reduction deal that takes into account the needs of the poor, said an AP report on Google News.
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30-Nov-2011
A total of 12 nurses are suing University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, over a new policy requiring them to care for patients before and after abortions, even if they have religious or moral objections to abortion, said a Catholic News Service report on NCR Online.
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28-Nov-2011
After the switch to a new Mass translation, US bishops recommend old liturgical books should be respectfully buried, either intact or after being burned, the Catholic News Agency reports.
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30-Nov-2011
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has agreed to a legal settlement over his role in administering an oath of secrecy to a teenage victim of clerical sexual abuse in 1975, Reuters reports.
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29-Nov-2011
Six separate reports on child protection measures in Catholic dioceses in Ireland are to be published on today, reports Kerryman.ie.
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29-Nov-2011
A "doctrinal preamble" presented by the Vatican to the Society of St Pius X needs changes before it can be accepted as the basis for the group's reconciliation, said the group's leader, according to a Catholic News Service report on NCR.
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29-Nov-2011
A monk wanted by police in the UK over child abuse allegations at a leading West London Catholic school secretly visited Rome to empty his Vatican bank account while on the run, said a report by the Daily Mail.
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01-Dec-2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Myanmar signalled significant change in the country, said Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon, but the government still needed to prove that democratic reform was real and lasting, reports ucanews.com.
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30-Nov-2011
An Indian religious sister has been arrested on charges of human trafficking after a raid on a children's home in Sri Lanka run by the Missionary of Charity (MC) sisters, ucanews.com reports.
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27-Nov-2011
Church officials in Pakistan have expressed relief over a decision by the government not to include Jesus Christ among a list of obscene words to be banned from text messages, reports ucanews.com.
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01-Dec-2011
The Vatican has condemned the involvement of an excommunicated Chinese Bishop in this week's ordination of Vatican-approved Auxiliary Bishop Peter Luo Xuegang, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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28-Nov-2011
A priest who was ordained bishop in China without Vatican approval will be attending a forthcoming approved episcopal ordination in the country's Yibin diocese, reports ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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01-Dec-2011
St Thomas Aquinas would disagree with the definition that has been developed that God is a supreme being, and that all religious language is symbolic and analogical, not literal, according to author Karen Armstrong (pictured), reports the Independent Catholic News..
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30-Nov-2011
Not long ago, Sister Sarah Heger, a nun and teacher at a private Catholic girls school in St Louis (pictured with class), politely turned down a marriage proposal from a friend. She says: "Our bodies are made to give birth, but this was the life I wanted to lead. It's bigger," reports Stltoday.com
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29-Nov-2011
There's not much retiring military chaplain Deacon Graeme Ramsden hasn't seen. The senior police chaplain was so moved by his chaplaincy experiences in East Timor he's made them public, reports the Catholic Leader.
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28-Nov-2011
Collie’s moderate Mediterranean climate in rural Western Australia is a long way from the steamy tropical Philippines, the homeland of local Catholic priest Father Adolfo Bonghanoy. But the differences are more than climatic, reports the CollieMail.
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27-Nov-2011
CatholicCare held an African Dads and Kids Camp last month in collaboration with Victoria Police to help refugee families strengthen their family bonds as they adjust to their new lives in Australia, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
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01-Dec-2011
The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart (pictured), says the church is not cutting Father Bob Maguire loose and it will help him continue his work in the South Melbourne area. But his resignation is final. He discusses the matter on 3AW with Neil Mtchell.
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30-Nov-2011
Caritas has released its global gifts catalogue for people with a conscience and belief in social justice. The list can be found on its website.
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29-Nov-2011
Today is St Andrew's Day. Although he is the patron saint of Scotland, he is not Scottish. Wikipedia has an extensive entry on his life and significance to the church.
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28-Nov-2011
Anthony Fisher OP, the Bishop of Parramatta, was interviewed by Quentin Dempster about the Catholic Church’s position on voluntary euthanasia for last week’s edition of The 7.30 Report in NSW. The interview is now on Youtube.
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27-Nov-2011
Vatican Radio has a podcast of the Pope's Angelus address on Advent, which also included his comments about the climate change conference that has opened in Durban, South Africa.
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01-Dec-2011
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is due to greet the faithful who have been patiently awaiting the conclave’s decision. His fear of the responsibility suddenly thrust upon him is one that he must face on his own. We Have A Pope is a human portrait of a vulnerable and good man who struggles to cope with the responsibilities the other Cardinals have placed upon his shoulders
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30-Nov-2011
Giovanni Veronese’s romantic comedy Ages of Love is a portmanteau film comprising three stories about the power of love, as experienced by three men of different ages. Only De Niro’s character, because of his charm, age and self-knowledge, escapes from the film’s salacious moralising.
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29-Nov-2011
This adventure, fantasy film begins in Greece in the year 1228 BC, and starts by showing up-front the explicit death by burning of an aged temple priest at the hands of King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), the Titan God of light.
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28-Nov-2011
Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality is a collection, which looks at women Religious from the 13th to the 19th centuries, and is at its best when undermining contemporary gender-school assumptions, reports the Tablet.
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01-Dec-2011
What if sustained, long-term economic growth is a thing of the past? How, as Christians, might we respond to that challenge, asks Joe Egerton in Thinking Faith.
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30-Nov-2011
Some observers wonder if the clodsure of Ireland's embassy to the Holy See (pictured) may turn out to be just the first closure in a broader cycle, one that leaves formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican intact on paper, but the number of full-time representatives working on a daily basis in steady decline, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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29-Nov-2011
By the time we got to downtown Cairo, Tahrir Square was already an undulating school of people. The crowds swayed back and forth across the roads, stepping over people still wrapped in blankets sleeping on the cement, writes Joan Chittister in NCR Online.
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28-Nov-2011
On this day 25 years ago, 12 of us Jesuits were privileged to join thousands of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who met with Pope John Paul II at Alice Springs, writes Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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27-Nov-2011
There are two things the Pope condemned in his Africa trip which were unexpected. The first was sloppy financial accounting among bishops. The second thing he opposed was a general program of hostility towards Muslims, writes Andrew Brown in the Guardian online.
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