News - National
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23-Feb-2012
The Federal Government says it can't guarantee tuition fees won't rise under a shake-up of school funding, reports The Herald Sun.
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22-Feb-2012
Dan White, executive director of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney, said he believed that the principle of resource standard contained in the Gonski report had merit, but work needed to be done to assess how it would impact on Catholic schools, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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22-Feb-2012
Caritas Australia's Project Compassion for this year was officially launched by Cardinal George Pell during the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, according to a media release by the organisation.
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21-Feb-2012
Catholic schools disagree with the Coalition's assessment that recommendations in the Gonski review of school funding will result in private school parents being means tested to set the level of government funding, said The Australian.
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21-Feb-2012
More than 1 million Australians are compulsive hoarders and many of them need urgent medical help, according to a newly-released report by Catholic Community Services, reports the ABC.
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21-Feb-2012
Brisbane flood victim and schoolgirl Tess David acted as guest speaker at the launch of this year's Project Compassion at the city's Queen Street Mall on Friday, reports The Satellite.
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21-Feb-2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told three same-sex couples she believes laws allowing them to marry in Australia are inevitable, said a report in The Canberra Times.
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20-Feb-2012
The Gonski Report on Funding for Schooling is just "the start of the process" and much work remains to be done, said the Chair of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC), Mrs Therese Temby, in a media statement.
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19-Feb-2012
Media reports criticising the Government for providing asylum seekers released into community detention with up to $10,000 of home goods are misleading and provocative, says the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO).
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20-Feb-2012
The Genazzano FCJ College, which in 2010 was declared overfunded by the Education Department to the tune of $3.36 million, now fears it will be hard hit by any shake-up of education spending that favours state schools, reports The Australian.
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20-Feb-2012
The Shrove Tuesday race will be held today at Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne, reports The Stonnington Leader.
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19-Feb-2012
Catholic schools face fee increases of up to 131 per cent, forcing a potential exodus from primary and secondary facilities and campus closures, according to confidential modelling by the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria, reports The Australian.
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19-Feb-2012
At least seven victims of sexual assaults by priests are believed to have lodged formal complaints with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency against staff of the Carelink support group set up by the Church to counsel victims of clerical sexual abuse, reports The Age.
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23-Feb-2012
A Year 10 student at St Mary's High in Gateshead, near Newcastle in NSW, claims she was suspended because of her hair colour, said a report in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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23-Feb-2012
A priest in Muswellbrook near Newcastle in NSW, whose reappointment was knocked back, is likely to challenge the decision, reports The Muswellbrook Chronicle.
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22-Feb-2012
The Theology faculty from The Broken Bay Institute and The University of Newcastle will team up for the first time to teach together on campus and online in the 2012 academic year, the Institute said in a media release.
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22-Feb-2012
CatholicCare Sydney said it supports the NSW Government's measure to improve training and educational outcomes for young people in out-of-home care with an annual payment of $6000 to carers, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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22-Feb-2012
Archaeologists and Flinders University students have failed to find the site of Mary MacKillop's first school in Penola, said a report from The Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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20-Feb-2012
Pope Benedict has appointed Melbourne auxiliary bishop Tim Costelloe the new Archbishop of Perth, reports The Age.
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19-Feb-2012
Tasmania may be on track to become the first state in Australia to legalise euthanasia, as Premier Lara Giddings and Greens Leader Nick McKim prepare a Private Members' Bill, reports The Mercury.
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News - International
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19-Feb-2012
In his speech to newly created cardinals, Pope Benedict has indirectly denied recent speculation that he may resign the Papacy, reports the Vatican Insider.
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20-Feb-2012
Benedictine nun Mother Dolores - once a starlet in movies alongside Elvis Presley- has no qualms about returning to Hollywood on Oscar night, said a report in The Daily Telegraph.
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23-Feb-2012
The British Education Secretary has defended the right of Catholic schools to promote Church teaching on homosexuality following a complaint from the country's Trade Union Congress.
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20-Feb-2012
A senior civil servant appointed non-resident ambassador to the Vatican is to open talks with the Pope's representatives on sharing an embassy building with other diplomats assigned to Rome, reports The Kerryman.
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19-Feb-2012
Spain's youngest bishop has decided to cut his monthly salary of 1,200 Euros (about $1,400) by 25 percent, to stand in solidarity with those suffering in the economic crisis, reports the Vatican Insider.
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23-Feb-2012
The Church in Dili has called for people to turn their backs on violence and ensure that presidential elections scheduled for March 17 are carried out peacefully, reports ucanews.com.
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23-Feb-2012
An Iranian Christian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy, is to be hanged "imminently", an American human rights group is reporting, according to The Catholic Herald.
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21-Feb-2012
Catholic leaders have called for negotiations to prevent a civil war in Syria, where the conflict between government supporters and opponents is being compared to last year's fight for control of Libya, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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21-Feb-2012
Australian-born Father Robert McCulloch, of the St Columbans Missionary Society, has been awarded the highest civilian award that can be given by Pakistan to foreign nationals, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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22-Feb-2012
A Cuban archbishop has intervened to prevent 14 members of the Women in White protest group from being assaulted by Cuban police agents, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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23-Feb-2012
Before Fr Mark Sexton left for a six month stint as army chaplain in Afghanistan last June, one of his parishioners gave him an Ipod to play music while he was away, reports Southern Cross. A self-confessed Luddite, he had to get instructions on how to use it and with some scepticism he made a last-minute decision to buy an Ipad as well.
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21-Feb-2012
Mexican church leaders are perplexed at the disconnect in the way so many Mexicans identify themselves as Catholic, but fail to bring church teaching into their daily lives, reports the Catholic News Service.
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20-Feb-2012
Sister Geraldine Kearney’s lack of knowledge on cricket didn’t dampen her recent meeting with the jovial and inspirational Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa, reports Catholic Religious Australia in its newsletter.
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19-Feb-2012
The goal of the John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute is to identify and solve some of the major deficiencies in medical research, one of which is the ethical issues surrounding embryonic stem cells, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-Feb-2012
The Sisterhood National Catholic Women's Conference is one of Australia's premier Catholic events for women. The annual conference, from May 4-6, features powerful content delivered by leading Catholic speakers at an attractive beachside venue.
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22-Feb-2012
Heroic Media, a faith-based company that promotes alternatives to abortion through mass media, has an online news portal at Heroicnews.org. The initiative is aimed at making a broad cultural impact, complementing its current outreach to women in crisis pregnancies.
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21-Feb-2012
Sacred Destinations is an ecumenical guide to more than 1,250 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, religious architecture and sacred art in over 60 countries around the world. In includes photo galleries plus detailed maps and lots of practical travel information.
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20-Feb-2012
This website describes itself as "Not always happy but happy to be Catholic". It contains everything from book and film reviews to bible studies and prayers, favourite posts and superheroes.
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19-Feb-2012
Pro Bono Australia is a useful one-stop shop for information about the community sector. It publishes news, the Australian Directory of Not for Profit Organisations, and has space for NFPs to advertise for staff or find events.
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21-Feb-2012
This 1999 film has just been released in 3D. The Phantom Menace was never a great film. The special effects are terrific, and the 3D makes these even better. The musical score is as good as ever, and Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor’s performances are decent. But, as the film director’s manual says, “where’s the drama?”
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19-Feb-2012
This comedy film is based on the book of the same name by Janet Evanovich, which was a best seller in the US. It tells the story of Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), who accepts a job as a recovery agent and bounty hunter in a bail-bond business, run by her sleazy cousin. She has no training for the job, has been divorced recently, and is desperate for employment.
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22-Feb-2012
Could David Gonski’s review of school funding establish two parallel systems of education - one secular, one religious, both funded entirely by the taxpayer? The Religion and Ethics Report looks at the impact of the Gonski review on religious schools.
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23-Feb-2012
Things are now so messy in federal politics, you wonder whether there is any point in trying to sieve the short-term political interests of the players from the moral imperatives of good policy and sound administration in the national interest, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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22-Feb-2012
The conflict between liberal and conservative currents in the German-speaking Catholic world has led to “an open split” within the clergy, according to the latest issue of the German news magazine Der Spiegel, reports Vatican Insider.
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22-Feb-2012
"Life is a mystery." One often hears this kind of expression used, especially when surprising or unexpected events occur. There is also a deeper sense to this expression, writes Joel Hodge on ABC Unleashed.
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21-Feb-2012
We always knew when Lent started. It was when the Freddos disappeared. For as long as we could remember, dad had always arrived home on Friday night with a brown paper bag containing six chocolate Freddo Frogs (one for each of us), and a Cadbury Dairy Milk for mum, writes Monica Dutton in The Good Oil.
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20-Feb-2012
At face value the main proposals to the Gonski education review and the government's response to them hold little promise for school funding to become more effective and equitable in the near future, writes Scott Prasser in Eureka Street.
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19-Feb-2012
The emphasis on priestly celibacy is a distraction from some of the more important issues Church needs to address, writes Father William Grimm in Ucanews.
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23-Feb-2012
The Loreto Sisters are holding their Sunday Circle Refugee Conversations this weekend in Melbourne. Speakers include Sr Brigid Arthur, from the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project, who will guide recent asylum seekers as they share their stories, and lawyer David Manne,who will discuss the legal position of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia.
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20-Feb-2012
The Grey is an unusual meditation on death and the meaning of life, which masks its true intent by posing as a thriller-cum-horror story.Based on the short story Ghost Stalker by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, the story follows seven men who survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness, and explores the way each man copes with the imminence of death, as represented by howling wolves.
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