News - National
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19-Jan-2012
The government's program to expand university places has been too successful, says Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven, reports the Australian.
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19-Jan-2012
Religious young Australians will put their faith to the test in a new ABC TV series, by director Varcha Sidwell (photo), that challenges them to live a totally different life for two weeks, reports news.com.au.
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19-Jan-2012
Australia has been given an unprecedented opportunity to deliver true justice and recognition to its first people, through recommendations by the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, said the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council.
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17-Jan-2012
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed a draft "roadmap" for mental health reform over the next 10 years issued by Mental Health and Ageing Minister Mark Butler, and wants a similar move for aged care reform, the organsation said in a statement.
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17-Jan-2012
Ordained ministers will be be regarded as "workers" who can be prosecuted for safety breaches in church, as can elderly church volunteers, for the purposes of new national occupational health and safety laws, reports the Australian.
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15-Jan-2012
Father Bob Maguire has demanded an apology from radio's Derryn Hinch after the 3AW broadcaster renewed allegations that the priest laundered embezzled funds to support his charity, reports the Herald Sun.
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18-Jan-2012
The recovery of a three-year-old Sydney boy from a near-drowning is a miracle, says his relieved family, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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16-Jan-2012
Three men are suing the Church over allegations they were sexually assaulted by a teacher whose child sex convictions were known to the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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16-Jan-2012
After years of declining attendance, services aimed at drawing indigenous Catholics back to Mass are to start in Sydney's inner city suburbs next month, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Jan-2012
Marist Brother Charles Howard, who had once served as Superior General of the Marist Brothers for eight years, died in Sydney on Saturday after a short illness, said a statement from the religious order. He was 87.
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17-Jan-2012
Charity collection bins on the Gold Coast have become the dumping ground for the public's rubbish, dirty nappies containing faeces and even dead animals, said a report from the Sun Community Newspapers on goldcoast.com.au.
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18-Jan-2012
The leader of a Perth Christian group with links to the Church has been charged with molesting several female members of his flock, reports the West Australian.
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News - International
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18-Jan-2012
Clergy from across the world will gather Rome in February for the launch of the Church's global initiative on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, said a report in the Independent Catholic News.
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17-Jan-2012
A first response text from the Society of St Pius X reached the Vatican in December, but it was considered inadequate and the Holy See called for a new document, reports the Vatican Insider.
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16-Jan-2012
Pope Benedict XVI is to hold an audience with members of the Neocatechumenal Way on January 20 to address their differences, reports the Catholic Culture website.
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19-Jan-2012
Pope Benedict warned visiting US bishops that "radical secularism" threatens the core values of American culture, and he called on the church in America, including politicians and other laypeople, to render "public moral witness" on crucial social issues, reports the Catholic News Service.
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16-Jan-2012
Clergy and lay people in the US are increasingly turning to the church's internal legal system to challenge a bishop's or pastor's decision about Catholic life, according to canon lawyers in academia, dioceses and in private practice, said an AP report in the Long Island Press.
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15-Jan-2012
A letter signed by more than three dozen US religious leaders, including New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan (pic), has voiced concern that religious groups will be forced to treat same-sex unions "as if they were marriage", said the National Catholic Reporter.
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15-Jan-2012
A three-year study of US women religious initiated by the Vatican has been completed and sent to Rome, reports the Catholic News Service.
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19-Jan-2012
Christians from several denominations have pledged to hold a 'ring or prayer' around protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, if bailiffs or police begin to forcibly remove them, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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19-Jan-2012
A French Catholic man has become the first in his country to be officially "de-baptised", with a court ruling in favour of his lawsuit to have his name permanently deleted from church records, said a Religion News Service report in the Washington Post.
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18-Jan-2012
Scotland's largest health board has been taken to court by two Catholic staff who claim conscientious objections over abortion procedures were disregarded, reports the BBC.
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18-Jan-2012
A new $3 million fund aimed at bringing down Northern Ireland's peace walls by building confidence between divided religious communities has been announced, reports the Kerryman.ie.
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17-Jan-2012
Belgium's bishops have pledged a "culture of vigilance" against future sexual abuse by priests and said guilty clergy must compensate their victims even if their crimes are no longer punishable by law, said a Catholic News Service report on NCR.
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17-Jan-2012
Dogs, cats, rabbits and even turtles lined up with their owners around the block of the Church of San Anton in central Madrid, Spain, for a blessing on Saint Anthony's Day, said an AP report in the Daily Telegraph.
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16-Jan-2012
Demonstrators attempting to set up a protest camp in St Peter's Square in Rome have been forcibly removed by riot police, reports the Guardian.
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15-Jan-2012
Australia's first Rome-based ambassador to the Vatican, Tim Fischer, wrapped up his posting early this month with an audience with the Pope, according to the Australian.
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18-Jan-2012
Authorities in the Philippines are investigating the suspicious death of an Australian priest found floating in a river, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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16-Jan-2012
The Catholic Secular Forum in India has taken exception to the a Bollywood movie song called "Hosanna" in a yet-to-be released film, said a report on CathNews India.
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15-Jan-2012
Film director Martin Scorsese is preparing to shoot a new film with a heavyweight cast about the martyrs of Japan, according to a Spero News report on ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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19-Jan-2012
The Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, a gold-clothed, doll-like figurine, is Cuba's patron saint and Pope Benedict will visit her in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba in March to mark the 400th anniversary of her discovery, reports Reuters in the West Australian.
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18-Jan-2012
Jackie François is an American singer, songwriter and speaker who’s proud to be a "28-year-old virgin". She was in Sydney recently to speak on the topic of The Ache of Singleness and Dating, reports the
Catholic Weekly.
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17-Jan-2012
Fr Ian Hellyer is a Catholic priest and father of nine. He belongs to an Ordinariate in England, having been an Anglican priest until last year and then decided to convert to Catholicism. He refuses to hold the flag of celibacy for priests, reports the Vatican Insider.
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16-Jan-2012
Next month, Pope Benedict XVI will create 22 new cardinals in the fourth consistory of his pontificate, 18 of whom will be eligible to vote in the next conclave to choose a new Pope. It is now clear to many that Pope Benedict wants to keep the papacy firmly in the hands of the Europeans, reports the Tablet.
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15-Jan-2012
The traditional primacy of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been shaken. In the last elections one of every 10 Poles voted for the socially egalitarian and explicitly anticlerical party known as the Palikot Movement, named after founder Janusz Palikot (pictured), reports NCR Online.
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19-Jan-2012
CIDSE describes itself as "an international alliance of Catholic development agencies working together for global justice".
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18-Jan-2012
The Catholic Education Office (CEO) Sydney has responsibility for more than 63,000 students in the Archdiocese of Sydney. This site contains a wealth of important information and resources, including online teaching tools and a calendar with key dates in the 2012 Catholic school year.
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17-Jan-2012
The Catholic Education Office Melbourne oversees approximately 143,000 students, supported by more than 11,800 teaching staff. Its site has, among other resources and tools, details about Catholic Education Week, and downloadable handbooks for parents.
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16-Jan-2012
Vatican Radio carries an interview with Dr Peter Pavlovic, Study Secretary of Church & Society Commission and Secretary of ECEN - the European Christian Environmental Network. The interview can be heard on the website.
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15-Jan-2012
Caritas Australia, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services and other agencies within the Caritas network, have enabled so-called “R2R” or Rubble to Reconstruction entrepreneurs in Haiti to successfully establish businesses that directly contribute to the recovery effort in the capital Port-au-Prince.
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18-Jan-2012
Fans wondered when they heard that Martin Scorsese was to direct a children’s film and in 3D. There is no need to be apprehensive, Scorsese has made one of his best films.
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17-Jan-2012
This excellent drama-comedy tells the story of a successful Hawaiian property lawyer, Matt King (George Clooney), whose business preoccupations have pushed him to keep his wife at a distance. It tackles adult issues with understanding and compassion, and uses wit to avoid sentimentality.
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16-Jan-2012
For her performance as a cross-dressing waiter in Albert Nobbs, Glen Close may come perilously close at this year’s Oscars, to pipping at the post fellow contender Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady).
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15-Jan-2012
Filmed in London, Budapest and Istanbul, this movie is based on the 1974 book of the same name by John le Carre. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival, and condenses a highly complex book to its bare essentials, and gives his novel a broodingly distinctive stamp.
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19-Jan-2012
Encounter delves into the Latin language, its history and its place in the Christian story, where the traditional Roman Catholic Latin mass is making itself felt in a controversial new English translation.
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19-Jan-2012
The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Great Britain last year prompted an interesting experiment. The Catholic Church asked for lay volunteers to deal with media enquiries and to appear on panels. The volunteers were trained by a panel who prepared them for likely questions, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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18-Jan-2012
In 2012, the Catholic Church looks back on a decade of learning about the sexual abuse of minors by those who would mentor them. We have come to some understanding of how to address the problem, writes Bernard Nojadera, in the Huffington Post.
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17-Jan-2012
The zero tolerance policy of demonstrations in the Vatican is the only one possible. If it were not in force, given that St Peter’s Square is the world’s most famous piazza, then it would never be free from protestors (pictured), writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in the Catholic Herald.
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16-Jan-2012
Anti-Christian persecution unfolds squarely in the political blind spot of the West - the victims are usually "too Christian" to excite the left, "too foreign" to interest the right. It's time to five common myths about anti-Christian persecution, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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15-Jan-2012
One can learn much about the current state of religious and secular opinion, and the confidence of their exponents, from responses to the death of Christopher Hitchens (pictured here with Tony Blair), writes John Haldane in the Catholic Herald.
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