News - National
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14-Dec-2011
The Federal Government must act now to avoid the most recent funding shortfall in aged care becoming an ongoing problem, according to Catholic Health Australia, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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13-Dec-2011
Canberra Educator Donella Johnston has been appointed Director for the Office for the Participation of Women and as the Executive Secretary to the Bishops' Commission for Church Ministry (BCCM), the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a statement.
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13-Dec-2011
Brisbane-based Good Samaritan Sister, Pauline Coll, has received a national award for her distinctive contribution and commitment to the fight against human trafficking, slavery and forced labour, said a report in The Good Oil.
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13-Dec-2011
Archbishop John Hepworth has resigned as the global head of the Traditional Anglican Communion, reports the Australian.
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12-Dec-2011
CatholicCare Sydney has denied claims that one of its agencies systematically defrauded the Australian government out of large amounts of money, it said in a statement, published in an AFP report in the West Australian.
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12-Dec-2011
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has angered senior members of his frontbench by ruling out a conscience vote on gay marriage only days after sending them a different message privately, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Dec-2011
More Sunday evening masses will attract young people and families back to the church, Archbishop Philip Wilson believes, according to the Advertiser.
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11-Dec-2011
A Sydney Morning Herald report alleges that the Church's employment arm has been systematically rorting the taxpayer-funded welfare-to-work program, one of a number of employment agencies that are exploiting loopholes in the $4.7 billion Job Services Australia program.
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11-Dec-2011
The Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (pictured) has responded to articles in the Age on December 3 and 6 which reported allegations of sexual abuse against a Marianist Brother, in a statement posted on the archdiocese's website.
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15-Dec-2011
Bishop Peter Ingham will ordain the first priests in five years in the Diocese of Wollongong tomorrow - retired police officer Geoffrey Allen and psychology graduate Duane Fernandez, the diocese said in a statement.
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15-Dec-2011
A lesbian couple's experiences with a Catholic school in western NSW have sparked a call to amend anti-discrimination laws, reports the ABC.
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14-Dec-2011
A homosexual couple whose daughter was originally rejected by a school regional NSW has turned down an offer of enrolment, after the acting head of the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese, Bishop Kevin Manning (pic), instructed the school to offer the child a position, reports the ABC and The Australian.
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14-Dec-2011
The stellar performance of students at NSW selective high schools continues apace with only one private school, Moriah College, making the top 10 of the Sydney Morning Herald's annual list of top-performing schools as judged by HSC results, the newspaper said.
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14-Dec-2011
St Mary's Cathedral will be illuminated against Sydney's night sky until December 24 as part of the second annual Lights of Christmas display, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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13-Dec-2011
The acting bishop for the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese, Kevin Manning, has overturned a decision by a Catholic primary school to reject a student because her parents are gay, reports the ABC.
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13-Dec-2011
A magistrate at a NSW local court said a Grafton parish priest could face jail for driving after his second high-range drink driving offence, reports the Daily Examiner.
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13-Dec-2011
The Inner Sydney Montessori School is accused of stealing Christmas after removing all references to Santa, carols and Christianity in end-of-year celebrations, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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15-Dec-2011
Water Minister Tony Burke has copped criticism from thousands of protesters, including Catholic priest Father Andrew Grace, over the Murray-Darling basin rescue plan, reports the Age.
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12-Dec-2011
The oldest Australian Sister of Mercy, Sister Madeleine Lawrence, has celebrated her 109th birthday, said a report on the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn newsletter.
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News - International
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15-Dec-2011
Pope Benedict welcomed 12 new ambassadors to the Holy See, urging them to see that humanity's growing interdependence in the era of globalisation means "we are all responsible for everything", reports Vatican Radio.
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11-Dec-2011
Pope Benedict has reminded Christians not to be dazzled by the shopping lights of the Advent season but to keep focused on the coming on Jesus Christ, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Dec-2011
Two medical professionals have told the Catholic News Agency that an article, about the use of the Pill to lower the risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers among religious sisters, is flawed.
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15-Dec-2011
A record low of barely half of Americans are currently married, according to a Pew Research Centre analysis of Census data, reports the BBC.
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12-Dec-2011
The Canon Law Society of America has offered to help the US bishops' conference develop their processes for investigations of theologians following the Elizabeth Johnson affair, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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14-Dec-2011
Catholic medical professionals have questioned the reliability of a British review concluding that women who have abortions have no increased risk of developing mental health problems, said a Catholic News Service Report on NCR.
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12-Dec-2011
The Church in Italy is under growing pressure to start paying taxes on its massive property portfolio, in a move that could raise up to €800 million ($A1 billion) a year and help bail the country out of its economic crisis, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Dec-2011
A Sri Lankan court has freed a Missionaries of Charity religious sister who was arrested on the allegation of child trafficking, after the attorney general said an investigation had proved she is innocent and her service is genuine, ucanews.com reports.
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14-Dec-2011
Hermenegild Makoro, a sister of the Precious Blood, was appointed the new number two of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, reports the Vatican Insider from the agencies MissiOnLine and CISA.
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12-Dec-2011
The Archbishop of Kinshasa has condemned election results that gave the Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila a new five-year term after polls that were sharply criticised by observers, said an AFP report on Yahoo 7 News.
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11-Dec-2011
In the Bible, shepherds and wise men paid homage to the newborn baby Jesus, and in Venezuela Hugo Chavez turned up in the manger, too, said a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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Regulars
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15-Dec-2011
Adelaide parishioner Margaret Wooley (pictured) will spend this Christmas morning with Iranian refugees Fahad, Parisa and Iliya celebrating Mass just over a year from the day they were detained at Christmas Island, reports Southern Cross.
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14-Dec-2011
Emmy Award-winning designer Ryan Bomberger discusses the impact of abortion on black Americans in an interview with the Catholic Herald.
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13-Dec-2011
Bishop Anthony Ireri Mukobo's day, week and month were about to take a turn from whatever he had scheduled. An outbreak of violence the previous night in central Kenya overrode much of his normal activity of overseeing the Catholic Church, reports the Catholic News Service.
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12-Dec-2011
A group of reclusive nuns in New South Wales has joined activists protesting against the coal seam gas industry. The Carmelite nuns, whose monastery is in south-western Sydney, have told a State government inquiry that proposed wells on land near their property will reduce their quality of life, reports the ABC.
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11-Dec-2011
The European Values Survey has found a strong correlation between happiness and religion. When the researchers ran statistical tests looking for correlations between happiness and religion variables, there were six main findings, reports MercatorNet.
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15-Dec-2011
A group of archaologists from Hong Kong and Turkey claim to have found the wooden remains of Noah's Ark, embedded in deep glacial ice near the top of Mt Ararat in Turkey. A series of reports from the team, together with several other articles, have been published on this new website.
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14-Dec-2011
The Catholic Women’s League of Australia (CWLA) has launched a new dynamic website, which highlights the significant work being done by League members locally, nationally and internationally. It also includes a comprehensive bioethics section.
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13-Dec-2011
The Independent Catholic News has listed a range of sites that offer ethical gifts for anyone needing to buy last minute presents which won't break your conscience.
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12-Dec-2011
The Catholic Diocese of Armidale is celebrating the appointment of a new Bishop. Father Michael Kennedy, the current parish priest of Leeton, near Wagga Wagga will start official duties early next year. Father Kennedy (pictured) spoke to the ABC. The interview can be downloaded.
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11-Dec-2011
A virtual tour of the Church of the Nativity, the birthplace of Jesus, has been opened by Bethlehem town authorities this Advent. Those of us unable to make a pilgrimage in person, will also be able to see all the major attractions: the churches, culture and history of Bethlehem.
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13-Dec-2011
This film is a social comedy about Spanish maids who live and work in an apartment building in Paris in the 1960s. The film pursues the adventures of a wealthy stockbroker who gets pulled into the culture of the maids living above him in his apartment building.
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12-Dec-2011
This is a movie starring almost anyone that can lay claim to celebrity status. It is a series of vignettes, or short stories about “love, hope, forgiveness, second chances, and fresh starts”. The stories intertwine, some more successfully than others, but they all try to reflect the vitality and pulse of New York City, celebrated on a special night of the year.
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11-Dec-2011
This is a computer-generated film produced by Dream Works Animation. It tells the story of the adventures of Puss in Boots before his first appearance in Shrek 2 (2004). Accompanied by Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Soft-Paws, a black female cat, Puss is pitted against two ugly villains, Jack and Jill.
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15-Dec-2011
When Values Collide recounts aspects of a Franciscan priest's searing experience of the sexual abuse crisis, its effect on the victims and their families, on the author and his fellow friars, and on the US church and Catholicism in general, writes Patrick Jordan in Commonweal.
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15-Dec-2011
As a religious education teacher in London where many of the pupils attended Pentecostal churches, I was amazed to find that the class on ‘heaven and hell’ was the class that the teenagers most engaged with, and they shared their beliefs on ‘the rapture’ eagerly, writes Sr Cathy Jones RA in Thinking Faith.
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14-Dec-2011
I've said this so often I probably ought to have it printed on T-shirts: The most important Catholic story of our time is the demographic shift from the global north to the south, with two-thirds of the Catholics in the world today living in the southern hemisphere, writes John Allen (pictured) in NCR Online.
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13-Dec-2011
As a nation come of age, and as a people whose many citizens originate from climes other than northern Europe, it is time for us to claim new images in our celebration of the seasons of Advent and Christmas, writes Patty Fawkner SGS in The Good Oil.
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12-Dec-2011
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin (pictured) was quoted recently as suggesting that Ireland’s lapsed Catholics should have the maturity to leave the Church, writes Francis Phillips in the Catholic Herald.
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11-Dec-2011
Pope Benedict has pointed to the traditional Christian family as a key agent in the New Evangelisation, saying heterosexual marriages open to having children provided “the human space for an encounter with Christ” in our world, writes Robert Mickens in The Tablet.
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14-Dec-2011
The Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese will celebrate the spirit of Christmas with the annual Carols of the Nations on Sunday from 2pm-4pm at Archbishop’s House in Canberra.
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