News - National
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02-Feb-2012
A successful program developed by Youth Off The Streets to deal with young sex offenders should be used as a national treatment model, the organisation's CEO Father Chris Riley told The Catholic Weekly.
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02-Feb-2012
Irish-born Josephite Sister Mary Leahy jokes she was "head-hunted" for the role as chaplain of the Stella Maris Apostleship of the Sea based at Botany in NSW, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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02-Feb-2012
Many school anti-bullying policies are inadequate – leaving both children and teachers at risk, according to a joint study by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and University of Otago Medical School (UOMS) in New Zealand, said a report in Health Canal.
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01-Feb-2012
The aged-care system today is not just unsustaiable. It is on its last legs, says Catholic Health Australia chief executive officer Martin Laverty, reports The Australian.
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01-Feb-2012
Catholic Social Services Australia has welcomed the Fair Work Australia ruling in the equal pay case for community sector workers, saying in a statement that it recognises the undervaluation of the sector's workforce.
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31-Jan-2012
Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson is planning to have a statue of St Mary MacKillop installed in the Vatican - and has already identified the perfect spot outside St Peter's Basilica, said a report by The Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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31-Jan-2012
A confidential submission commissioned by state education departments says government funding of private schools has failed to lift standards for disadvantaged students, reports The Australian.
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30-Jan-2012
Veteran newsman Mike Willesee, will make an unexpected return to television current affairs as the new recruit on Seven's Sunday Night program, said a report on news.com.au from the Daily Telegraph.
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29-Jan-2012
Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth has highlighted a recent report, detailing the dramatic deterioration in the past 10 years of Australian children's welfare, in a weekly broadcast series by the archdiocese's Faith Centre, said a media release from his office.
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29-Jan-2012
Two Josephite religious sisters and the priest who acted as Postulator for the Canonisation of Mary Mackillop were among Australians honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia, according to a media release and news reports.
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29-Jan-2012
Crowds of churchgoers crammed into St Peter and Paul's parish in South Melbourne for the farewell of priest and media personality Father Bob Maguire, reports the ABC.
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30-Jan-2012
About 40 judges and magistrates marched behind cross-bearers into Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral Monday morning, for the annual Red Mass marking the start of the judicial term for judges and lawyers, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Jan-2012
The restoration of the family vault of boxing champion Les Darcy has been completed at the East Maitland Catholic cemetery, said an article in the Maitland Mercury.
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01-Feb-2012
Queensland Reds and Wallaby star Digby Ioane, a deeply committed Catholic, isn't going to stop getting tattoos despite a moment of pain after the latest one depicting an angel with a crucifix, said The Brisbane Times.
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31-Jan-2012
Possible changes to holiday laws in South Australia could strip Easter Sunday of its public holiday status, said a report by The Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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News - International
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02-Feb-2012
A blessing by Pope Benedict exorcised the devil from two howling men during a general audience in St Peter's Square in 2009, an exorcist priest says in an upcoming book, reports the AFP in The Vancouver Sun.
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30-Jan-2012
Representatives of most of the world's bishops' conferences and 30 religious orders will meet in Rome early next month to launch an initiative aiming to efforts to halt abuse and better protect children and vulnerable adults, reports the Catholic News Service.
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30-Jan-2012
The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of terrorism, said an exclusive report by the Associated Press in The Washington Post.
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01-Feb-2012
The Worldwide Marriage Encounter has announced the 2012 US winners of its Longest Married Couple contest: a Nevada couple who married in 1933, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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31-Jan-2012
A 67-year-old woman with a criminal record for theft has been charged with siphoning nearly A$1million in donations while working in a finance office of the Archdiocese of New York, reports the Religion News Service on NCR Online.
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30-Jan-2012
The same-sex marriage issue will be facing lawmakers and voters in several US states this year, said a Catholic News Service report on NCR.
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02-Feb-2012
About $150,000 worth of treasures from the St Augustine's Abbey in Kent in Britain are to be sold at auction next week, including religous objects that the auctioneer says have been "deconsecrated", reports The Catholic Herald.
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02-Feb-2012
Nearly 100 Anglican clergy in London have signed a letter to The Times newspaper urging that priests be allowed to follow their conscience on whether to hold civil partnership ceremonies in their churches, said an AFP report in The Daily Telegraph.
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01-Feb-2012
The Council of Europe has ruled that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be banned in every country across the Continent, reports The Catholic Herald.
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01-Feb-2012
The faithful across the UK are being invited to carry a card showing that they are Catholic, with one million cards to be made available to 24 Catholic dioceses in this new initiative, said a report on the Independent Catholic News.
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31-Jan-2012
A student union motion at University College London which forces Catholic organisations to invite pro-abortion speakers to pro-life events is "completely illegal", according to a Catholic lawyer, reports the Catholic Herald.
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30-Jan-2012
A former soccer player for English foootball club Manchester United is training to become a priest, said a report in the Catholic Herald.
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29-Jan-2012
An Italian television broadcast claiming to disclose financial corruption at the Vatican exaggerated the situation, said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, according to the Catholic News Agency.
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29-Jan-2012
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a past president of Italy who helped write its post-war constitution and was a founding member of the former Christian Democrats, has died in Rome at 93.
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31-Jan-2012
The Church in the Philippines has asked the country's boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao to become a "bible ambassador", said an AFP report in The West Australian.
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Regulars
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02-Feb-2012
A London fashion designer is teaching young women to dress virtuously, after her brother's death made her rethink her life and career, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Feb-2012
Dina Dwyer-Owens is a Catholic CEO promoting good values and good business - with a little help from reality television, reports America magazine.
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31-Jan-2012
On the first anniversary of the creation of the personal ordinariate in Britain, ten members describe their poignant journey to full communion in The Catholic Herald.
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30-Jan-2012
Teaching has taken on a new dimension for Susan Bentley and her students at All Hallows' School, Brisbane, since she organised her own immersion experience at an orphanage and high school in Cambodia, reports The Catholic Leader.
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29-Jan-2012
The leadership of African sisters religious gathered over the weekend on the campus of Catholic University of East Africa on the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya to launch the organisation’s first strategic plan, reports NCR Online.
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02-Feb-2012
The Jesuit Post is a new website designed as a meeting place for Jesuits who want to blog and share ideas. It is lively, attractively designed and full of stimulating reading.
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01-Feb-2012
The National Association of Deacons (NAD) represents all of the Catholic deacons of Australia and is associated with the National Council of Priests (NCP). The website includes everything from news items, pastoral and liturgical stories, profiles of memberd and discussion of Canon Law.
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31-Jan-2012
Online Catholic news service Ucanews has just relaunched its Indian edition, with a fresh design and home page. The site has a robust news coverage of events and trends in the subcontinent and Asian region, along with anlaysis and opinion.
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30-Jan-2012
Australian Catholics website covers a wide range of areas of Catholic life, including a dedicated portal called Teacher Resources. Each quarterly edition of the magazine includes a companion publication titled Reflections and Notes, which provides teachers with resources, reflections and activities they might find useful.
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29-Jan-2012
Prayer Online carries a daily prayer in the classroom, one suitable for primary/infants and one for secondary schools.
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02-Feb-2012
The film is photographed entirely in black and white, and is made almost without any voices on its sound track. It is set in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932, and this is the era when silent cinema gave way to the invention of talkie. It is a beguiling movie, oozing with affectionate nostalgia, and is wonderfully assertive of the joy of cinema.
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31-Jan-2012
This biopic of the former head of the FBI may not entirely clarify the life and thinking of one of America's most controversial political figures, but it keeps you absorbed. Leonardo DiCaprio's performance is Oscar-worthy.
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29-Jan-2012
Underworld: Awakening is the fourth in a series of films about vampires and were-wolves (called Lycans), which has as its hero a Marvel Comics "mutant" vampire called Selena (Kate Beckinsale), who is not only immortal but invulnerable to daylight, and able to heal herself from horrific injuries with incredible speed.
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01-Feb-2012
Ross Fitzgerald is a well known journalist, historian and novelist. He is also a survivor of alcoholism, which led him to psychiatric wards, shock therapy, and suicide attempts. Ross has kept a Spiritual Diary from Christmas Day (his birthday) to Australia Day. He reads and discusses it with Rachael Kohn.
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02-Feb-2012
Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime in big cities across Europe and America, writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith The Catholic Herald.
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01-Feb-2012
One of Barack Obama’s great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and intellectual concerns of religious believers. That is why it is so remarkable that he utterly botched the admittedly difficult question of how contraceptive services should be treated under the new health care law, writes EJ Dionne (pictured) in The Washington Post.
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31-Jan-2012
The inconvenient truth for opportunistic public school advocates has been exposed with the publication of MySchool, easily the most accurate and fair source in relation to school funding data, writes Therese Themby, Chairwoman of the National Catholic Education Committee, in The Australian.
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30-Jan-2012
As Christians in Nigeria face new threats from the militant Islamic Boko Haram movement, following the Christmas Day church bombings that claimed around 200 lives, two new reports suggest the Nigerian drama is part of a global pattern of anti-Christian violence, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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29-Jan-2012
The unasked question of new genetic technologies is: who decides which genetic qualities warrant death, before or after birth, on what basis and in whose interests, writes Bishop Anthony Fisher in the Australian.
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30-Jan-2012
The Bishop of Parramatta, Anthony Fisher OP, has written a book on bioethics - Catholic Bioethics for a New Millennium - which will be launched in Sydney tonight by Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney.
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