News - National
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24-Jan-2012
The Catholic Bishops Commission for Justice, Ecology and Development has called on political parties to mark Australia Day by working towards a common approach to asylum seekers - and put a limit to their time in detention, the bishops said in a statement.
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24-Jan-2012
CathNews will not be published tomorrow or Friday. We wish all our readers a happy Australia Day. We will return on Monday, January 30. CathNews Perspectives will be published as normal on Friday.
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23-Jan-2012
Catholic Health Australia, the country's biggest not-for-profit health provider, has accused the Gillard government of planning laws that could allow it to take over charities critical of government policy, reports the Australian.
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23-Jan-2012
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will today announce that she will move for a second inquiry on her bill to legalise same-sex marriage, said a report by The Age and AAP.
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23-Jan-2012
Medical authorities are investigating euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke after the death of a terminally ill South Australian woman, reports the Herald Sun.
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23-Jan-2012
Two priests from the Diocese of Sale in Victoria have started an online petition calling for Pope Benedict to change current communion practices to eliminate receiving the Eucharist in the hand, reports the US Catholic.
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22-Jan-2012
Conservative constitutional scholar and Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, Greg Craven, says a proposal to insert a ban on racial discrimination in the constitution would be a ''gift'' to those who oppose recognition of indigenous people in the nation's founding document, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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22-Jan-2012
There's a youthful theme to this year's Australian of the Year nominees - many of them have been given the nod for their work with children and young people, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Jan-2012
Good Samaritans have come to the rescue of a church in Preston, Victoria, that was robbed of cash donations before Christmas, reports the Northcote Leader.
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23-Jan-2012
Victoria's Royal Women's Hospital has apologised for taking children from mothers, after a report revealed its role in the policy, reports the Herald Sun.
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23-Jan-2012
The cost of private schooling in NSW's Hunter region will rise by up to five per cent this year as institutions battle the cost of teaching students - in particular, electricity bills, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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News - International
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24-Jan-2012
Amid the deluge of information and nonstop chatter in today's media, the Church needs to help people find safe havens of silence, Pope Benedict said in his message for the 2012 celebration of World Communications Day, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-Jan-2012
A prominent Irish missionary priest has told a television interviewer that clerical celibacy will soon be a thing of the past, said a report on Irish Central.
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22-Jan-2012
The Vatican's approval of the Neo-Catechumenal Way's forms of "celebration" only applies to non-liturgical prayers within their catechesis and not to the Mass or other liturgies of the Church, said the Catholic News Agency.
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24-Jan-2012
Archbishop Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago of Leon called on organised crime groups to ensure there is peace during Pope Benedict's upcoming visit to Mexico, said an EFE report on Fox News Latino.
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22-Jan-2012
In Bulgaria, 11 of the country's 15 top bishops have been exposed as former secret police agents, shaking the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and its image just as it readies to choose a new patriarch, said an AFP report in the Australian.
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22-Jan-2012
The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia "cried like a baby" hours after the crash, says a priest, in a report by AFP published in the Daily Telegraph..
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24-Jan-2012
While the victory of Islamic parties "scares Christians", it is an expression of the will of the Egyptian population, a spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt said on the day of the first session held by the post-Mubarak parliament,according to a report on the Vatican Insider.
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22-Jan-2012
After arriving safely with his wife and child in the US, Christian dissident writer Yu Jie held a press conference and gave full details of his brutal mishandling and harassment by police in China, which has been ongoing since 2010, said a report published by ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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24-Jan-2012
As they celebrate the New Year and enter the Year of the Dragon, Chinese Catholics have additional reasons for rejoicing: Pope Benedict XVI will make Hong Kong’s Bishop John Tong Hon a cardinal on February 18 and, for the first time in history, there will be three Chinese in the College of Cardinals, reports the Vatican Insider.
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23-Jan-2012
Struggling American Catholic schools are finding new ways of making money, reports NCR Online. Schools that are thriving have had to seek other forms of revenue from foundations, local businesses and alumni.
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22-Jan-2012
The diplomatic relationship between the Vatican and the Republic of Paraguay is very special. The South American nation is unique in the world, being led by a (former) Catholic bishop: Fernando Lugo (pictured), reports the Vatican Insider.
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24-Jan-2012
Justice Products was initiated by the Brisbane Catholic Worker community in 1985. More than 25 years later, it continues as a not-for-profit shop, following the principles of Fair Trade and community participation.
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23-Jan-2012
The Requiem Mass for Brother Charles Howard, the former headmaster of St Joseph's College in Sydney, will be webcast live from the Joey's Chapel today. The eulogy will be delivered by the former Superior General, Brother Seán Sammon. The webcast will begin at 10.45am AEDST, and the Mass at 11am.
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22-Jan-2012
The Progressive Christian, long known as a top-ranked print magazine, has moved from a subscription-based business model to a membership-based model to emphasise the new mission of fostering a stronger progressive Christian community. The hub of TPC's new mission is its website.
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23-Jan-2012
Young Adult is a book industry term for the niche market for novels that appeal to young adults. Charlize Theron plays Mavis, an author of a series that has been popular but has run its course. We soon realise that she has not really grown up and is the equivalent of a young adult.
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22-Jan-2012
What most distinguishes the latest alien invasion movie The Darkest Hour, filmed in obligatory 3D, is its similarity to other re-cycled movies about the end of the world, and its spectacular setting in today’s Moscow.
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24-Jan-2012
Sally Read is an acclaimed poet and former psychiatric nurse in London, who was raised as an atheist but recently was received into the Catholic Church in the Vatican. She talks about her conversion on The Spirit of Things.
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24-Jan-2012
The world's first "megachurch" did not originate in 1950s America. It sprouted in 15th century Florence. It was called San Marco and was led by a fiery preacher and friar named Girolamo Savonarola, writes Jon Sweeney in the Huffington Post.
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23-Jan-2012
Nicholas Boyle argues that the character of this century will be decided by an event that will take place at some point in the middle of this decade. He asks how we can see "a Christian meaning in the present moment of decision", in Thinking Faith.
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22-Jan-2012
Independent civil and canon law reviews of the removal of Bishop Morris have concluded that there was a denial of “procedural fairness and natural justice” in the sacking, writes Father Michael Kelly in The Tablet.
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