News - National
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16-Feb-2012
The Australian Catholic Office for Film (ACOFB) and Broadcasting has cautiously welcomed the introduction of legislation which looks to create an R18+ classification for computer games, it said in a media release.
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15-Feb-2012
The national union representing 70,000 non-government teachers has rejoined the ACTU, after receiving assurances from the peak body that it would not favour government-run schools, reports The Australian.
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15-Feb-2012
The St Vincent de Paul Society is part of a coalition of welfare and community groups that has called on the Federal Government to commit to a $2.5 billion stimulus package for the housing sector in the next Budget, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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14-Feb-2012
The work of Catholic Health Australia features strongly in the submission from Aged and Community Services Australia as part of the plan to establish the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, reports the Australian Ageing Agenda.
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13-Feb-2012
Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent Andrew Wilkie introduced a private member's bill yesterday to amend the Marriage Act, with a strong caveat that religious ministers would not be obliged to perform same-sex ceremonies, reports The Australian. It is one of three on the subject now before the parliament.
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13-Feb-2012
Catholic school parents must stay vigilant about school funding policy, ahead of the release of the Gonski report next Monday, said a letter jointly-signed by Queensland Catholic Education Commission Executive Director Mike Byrne and Parents and Friends Federation Executive Director Carmel Nash.
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12-Feb-2012
The long-awaited Gonski report, to be released next Monday,sugges ts the Government boosts funding for struggling public and private schools, The Sunday Mail reports.
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12-Feb-2012
Liberal backbenchers will be free to support same-sex marriage legislation when it comes before the parliament later in the year, reports The Australian.
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16-Feb-2012
A priest who was critical of the church's handling of the sale of its aged-care homes says he has been sacked and told to leave his parish in Muswellbrook, NSW, according to The Newcastle Herald.
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14-Feb-2012
The Queensland Government will lift alcohol restrictions on Good Friday to cater for a Queensland Reds rugby match, reports The Courier-Mail.
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12-Feb-2012
Kevin Rudd will officially reconcile with his former Catholic boarding school this week, 40 years after he begged his mother to remove him from the school, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Feb-2012
Archaeologists believe they have found the precise site where Saint Mary MacKillop established her school at Penola in South Australia in 1866, reports The ABC.
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13-Feb-2012
Ten staff and students from Flinders University in Adelaide are now resuming their search for the original site of a school established by Saint Mary MacKillop, reports the ABC.
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14-Feb-2012
Police in Kiara, WA, have described the theft of a 78-year-old woman's purse while she was praying in a church as absolutely despicable, reports inmycommunity.com.au.
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News - International
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16-Feb-2012
The female branch of the Legionaries of Christ religious order is in turmoil following the resignation of its leader and the decision of some 30 members to split from the movement, said an AP report in The Washington Post.
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15-Feb-2012
Pope Benedict has called on governments and communities to help large families, saying there is "no future" without children, reports the Catholic News Service.
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16-Feb-2012
The US bishops have refuted the White House's claim that they never supported health care reform in America, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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14-Feb-2012
American singer Nicki Minaj drew ridicule from viewers of Monday's Grammy Awards, with a performance that parodied the Catholic rites of confession and exorcism, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Feb-2012
A senior priest in the US state of Illinois has resigned from his role as head of the local deanery, in protest at the removal of one of his fellow priests for making small changes to prayers in the Mass, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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13-Feb-2012
A revision in an American health care mandate that would shift the payment of contraception and sterilisation coverage from religious employers to health insurance companies still infringes upon religious liberty, according to US bishops, said a Catholic News Service report.
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12-Feb-2012
A high-profile federal lawsuit in the US accusing Pope Benedict of covering up sexual abuse has been withdrawn, said a Religion News Service report on the Catholic News Service.
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12-Feb-2012
An American parish priest, who had been pastor at the same church for 17 years, has been asked to resign because he made minor changes in the Eucharistic prayer of the Mass, said a report on the Independent Catholic News.
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12-Feb-2012
US President Barack Obama has outlined a plan that would allow religious employers not to offer health insurance plans that include contraception and sterilisation, but would compel insurance companies to do so - but it is unlikely to end controversy over the issue, reports Catholic News Service.
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16-Feb-2012
Students at University College London will defy a student union motion which forces student groups to invite pro-abortion advocates to pro-life talks, reports The Catholic Herald.
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16-Feb-2012
The government of Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti, has issued a statement saying it had informed the European Commission that it would pass a law ending the Church's exemption from local property taxes on its properties used for commercial purposes, reports Reuters on Yahoo 7 News.
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14-Feb-2012
The Vatican is having its own version of WikiLeaks, spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has said following a recent rash of leaks to the Italian press, said an AFP report on Yahoo 7 News.
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14-Feb-2012
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a UK Muslim cabinet minister who led a ministerial delegation to the Vatican, said Europe must "become more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity", in an article published in The Telegraph.
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13-Feb-2012
For the first time ever in the United Kingdom, female priests' vocations exceed those of their male colleagues in the Church of England, said a report in the Vatican Insider.
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15-Feb-2012
Thousands of people are mourning the death of a Spanish nun, popularly known as the "Mother Teresa" of Meghalaya, in India, who revolutionised healthcare in the rural northeastern state, reports ucanews.com.
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15-Feb-2012
Two Colombian priests paid hitmen to kill them after one of the priests discovered he had AIDS, the case's prosecutor alleges, according to an AP report in The Herald Sun.
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Regulars
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16-Feb-2012
The recent debate in America over contraception coverage has exposed a deep divide between the US Bishops Conference's 271 active bishops and the rank-and-file Catholics who are supposed to follow their moral authority, reports Reuters.
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15-Feb-2012
It’s a long way from Plympton to Tel Aviv but Andrea Faulkner is grateful for her Catholic upbringing in Adelaide as she continues her impressive career as a foreign diplomat, reports The Southern Cross.
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14-Feb-2012
Moves by two English Catholic cash-strapped religious communities to sell off valuable collections of ancient artefacts, some of them unique, in their care have led to growing concern among conservationists about the protection of the Church’s sacred history, reports The Tablet.
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13-Feb-2012
If there is one saint’s feast day the rest of the world knows, it is St Valentine’s. But for the members of a Church that has a patron saint of love, it is not always easy to find the perfect partner. Could internet dating be the solution for young Catholics, asks Liz Dodd in The Tablet.
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12-Feb-2012
The Catholic Herald talks to Fr Michael Shea, a straight-talking American priest caring for the children of Aids sufferers in Thailand
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16-Feb-2012
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Goonellabah are an enclosed community of nuns, living near Lismore in northern NSW. They live according to the Rule of Carmel, which was first used by hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. The community was founded in 1966.
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15-Feb-2012
John Paul II's Facebook page continues to be popular with people around the world.
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14-Feb-2012
The Edmund Rice Centre has video of a breakfast with journalist and broadcaster Mike Carlton, where he reflects on ethics in the media, from the purpose of the media in a democratic society, through phenomena like the Murdoch Press and the shock-jocks on to what the future might hold.
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13-Feb-2012
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan, affectionately known as the Good Sams, have a website which offers a window in the rich spirituality, life and mission of Australia's first home-grown religious congregation.
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12-Feb-2012
Solar Alternatives and Associated Programmes (SAAP) is an Indian NGO venture launched by local Jesuits and operating in the fields of solar and solar thermal energy in Patna in the state of Bihar.
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16-Feb-2012
Kathleen Evans, the cancer survivor from Newcastle who came to prominence a few years ago as the recipient of a miracle by Saint Mary MacKillop, will be on Australian Story this coming Monday.
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12-Feb-2012
Chronicle is another hand-held camera story, allegedly using footage taken by Andrew (Dane de Haan), the central character, with his new camera. So we are in the Blair Witch tradition, though the story takes us in quite a different direction.
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14-Feb-2012
This book brings together scholarly perspectives from around the country and internationally to show ways in which the Church and others are engaged in efforts to restructure institutions, beliefs and practices to effect social change.
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13-Feb-2012
Catholic Social Conscience is a vitalising workbook, a collection of some sixteen essays by scholars and practitioners which assess the actual, contemporary impact of Catholic Social Teaching and propose an extension of its reach into the depths of 21st-century challenges, writes John Battle in Thinking Faith.
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16-Feb-2012
Could you live on less than $170.40 a week? If you were a single adult on Newstart Allowance getting the maximum amount of Rent Assistance, that's what you'd have left after paying for accommodation. That's less than $25 a day. Of course, if you can find a way of living rent-free, you'll have $35 a day, writes Paul O'Callaghan, Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Australia, on ABC Online.
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15-Feb-2012
The Treasury proposal in its draft legislation for the new Charities Commission will not improve the contribution made by not-for-profit organisations to our society. It actually proposes giving the commissioner powers that simply cannot be justified, writes Martin Laverty, CEO of Catholic Health Australia.
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14-Feb-2012
The talk surrounding schooling is most often about equity. The Prime Minister had a good phrase: "demography is not destiny" - where you live should not have an untoward effect on your schooling outcomes. I wonder what the Gonski Report will say about funding to country schools - and, in particular, Catholic country schools? writes Bishop Greg O'Kelly in ABC Online.
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13-Feb-2012
When Archbishop Timothy Dolan's initial reaction to President Barack Obama's compromise on the contraception mandate was "It's a step in the right direction," I knew it was too good to be true, writes Jamie Manson (pictured) in NCR Online.
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12-Feb-2012
I heard a program on the BBC World Service last week on surrogacy. It made sad listening. An Irish woman, Carolina, who had had ovarian cancer some years previously and who had subsequently married, had travelled to India to find a surrogate to carry “her” baby, writes Francis Phillips in The Catholic Herald.
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15-Feb-2012
The St Thomas More Forum in Canberra will hold a discussion next Wednesday titled What is the future of charitable health care in Australia?" The forum features Andrew Podger (pictured), former National President of the Institute of Public Administration, and Lynne Pezzzullo, economist with Deloittee Access Economics.
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