News - National
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01-Mar-2012
Notre Dame, a small private Catholic university with campuses in Fremantle and Sydney, has recorded the greatest growth of 250 per cent in increasing domestic enrolments, according to The Australian. Australian Catholic University was second, nearly doubling in size.
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01-Mar-2012
The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) will participate fully in the analysis of the recommendations of the Report on Funding for Schooling released last month, it said in a statement.
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29-Feb-2012
Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has endorsed a key recommendation of the Senate Inquiry report into past adoption practices that proposes a national apology, the organisation said in a statement.
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28-Feb-2012
The Edmund Rice Centre has expressed distress about the death of a detained Iranian asylum seeker this week, at the Liverpool Hospital in NSW, the Centre said in a statement.
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27-Feb-2012
Victims of forced adoption should receive a national apology when a federal parliamentary inquiry hands down its report tomorrow, says Catholic Health Australia, reports The Australian.
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26-Feb-2012
The Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications will head an influential line-up of guests for the Australian Catholic Media Congress, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a media statement.
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01-Mar-2012
Bishop Leslie Tomlinson has called on youth to join the church in his homily during his installation as the seventh Bishop of Sandhurst yesterday during a service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo, Victoria, reports The Bendigo Advertiser.
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01-Mar-2012
A Melbourne academic has triggered a storm and received hate mail after suggesting it is acceptable to kill newborns in so-called after-birth abortions if parents do not want them, The West Australian reports.
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01-Mar-2012
Victoria's Community Services Minister Mary Wooldridge is under pressure over comments comparing the rights of paedophiles to the rights of victims, reports The ABC.
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28-Feb-2012
The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart said in a statement that the Church will examine and respond to the report of the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, which was tabled in the state Parliament this week.
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29-Feb-2012
St Patrick's College in Strathfield, Sydney, can proudly boast to have three present Federal Cabinet Ministers in Tony Burke,Craig Emerson and Martin Ferguson as old boys, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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27-Feb-2012
Legal experts say an LNP government in Queensland could rapidly axe same-sex civil union laws if elected by simply introducing a repeal Bill in State Parliament, reports The Courier-Mail.
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26-Feb-2012
A man who "confessed" to a priest that he smothered his allegedly abusive mother has failed in a bid to have his murder conviction overturned, The Courier-Mail reports.
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29-Feb-2012
Monsignor David Cappo has described a skyrocketing number of people in urgent need of disability services as "totally unacceptable", reports AdelaideNow from The Advertiser.
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27-Feb-2012
The leader of a Perth Christian group with strong links to the Church has died days before his first court appearance on sexual molestation charges, reports The West Australian.
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News - International
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28-Feb-2012
A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic – despite the fact that the translation was often viewed as a highpoint of Protestant European culture, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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28-Feb-2012
Pope Benedict today passes his predecessor Pope John Paul II in becoming the sixth oldest pope in the history of the Church, completing 84 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day, according to Rome Reports.
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26-Feb-2012
Richard Dawkins, the controversial English scientist billed by many as the world's "most famous atheist", has told an interviewer that he is not 100 percent sure that God doesn't exist - but just barely, said a Religion News Service report on the National Catholic Reporter.
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26-Feb-2012
Pope Benedict is urging infertile couples to shun artificial procreation, decrying such methods as a form of arrogance, said an AP report on AdelaideNow.
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28-Feb-2012
A US priest whose efforts to help troubled youth were made famous by Spencer Tracy's Academy Award-winning portrayal of him in the 1938 movie Boys Town, has been nominated for sainthood, said an AP report in The Australian.
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26-Feb-2012
Seven US states are suing the Obama administration over its requirement that employers cover contraception in workers' health plans, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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01-Mar-2012
Six specialised teams, each with a doctor, are criss-crossing the Netherlands to carry out euthanasia on patients at home whose own doctors refuse to do so, said a report in The Canberra Times.
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29-Feb-2012
Two Catholic midwives in Scotland have lost a legal battle to avoid taking part in abortion procedures because of their "conscientious objections", reports the BBC.
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29-Feb-2012
A leading British medical journal has published an article calling for the introduction of infanticide for social and medical reasons, reports The Catholic Herald.
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28-Feb-2012
A senior Member of the European Parliament has called on the UK government to carry out a monthly audit of all abortions that receive funding from the British taxpayer, said a report on the Independent Catholic News.
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27-Feb-2012
The Lefebvrian bishop who three years ago denied the occurence of the Jewish Holocaust will have to be tried again due to a judicial error, said a report in The Vatican Insider.
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26-Feb-2012
A priest in Korea arrested for protesting against the construction of a controversial naval base says he wants to go to jail after being refused a prison term by a court in Jeju province on Friday, reports ucanews.com.
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29-Feb-2012
Archaeologists and authors of a new book published in late February have revealed that they have literally "unearthed" new information which may provide an unprecedented glimpse into Christianity's earliest days, reports The Inquisitr.
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27-Feb-2012
The Catholic custodian of holy places in the Holy Land has taken the rare step of asking Israel's president to help put an end to attacks on Christian holy sites, said an AP report on Google News.
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27-Feb-2012
Catholics in Syria are so fearful of losing their lives at any moment that they say farewell to each other at the end of every Mass, the Archbishop of Damascus has said, The Tablet reports.
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Regulars
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01-Mar-2012
When the Brisbane-born choreographer of the Adelaide Festival musical Mass was feeling a little homesick, it was a quick visit to the Goodwood Catholic Church which offered her the most familiar comfort, reports Southern Cross.
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29-Feb-2012
As General Manager of Domus Australia, Rome's home away from home for Aussie pilgrims, Gabriel Griffa (pictured with family) wants to know all about us - from the service we like to our expectations when we arrive in Rome, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney newsletter.
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28-Feb-2012
Irish priest Father Sean McDonagh has never been more in demand. Apart from the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, he has attended climate change meetings on two other continents, marked the “Year of the Forests” in Rome by reading a theology of trees to the major religious superiors, and was a speaker at the Pacific Institute in Sydney, reports NCR. He also finished a manuscript, Nuclear Power Post-Fukushima,
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27-Feb-2012
Madeleine Sobb has a rare bone growth disorder that has made her very short. She uses an electric wheelchair most of the time. Madeleine has also ridden horses for nine years and in 2010 competed nationally for the first time. Her ultimate goal is to represent Australia at the Paralympic Games in Rio in 2016, reports Aurora.
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26-Feb-2012
Each morning, Stephen Lawlor roars up the streets of Sydney's Punchbowl to work on his Yamaha motor cycle. But from now on, whenever in Rome, he has permission to use another type of transport enabling him not only to ride a horse into St Peter's Square but into the Vatican itself, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney newsletter.
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01-Mar-2012
A young American couple's blog about their courtship is just one of the features of this site, which also includes advice and resources about parenting and books. The site is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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29-Feb-2012
New Liturgical Movement is a website dedicated to Sacred Liturgy and Liturgical Arts. It carries a rich array of articles, commentary, artwork, photos and drawings around the theme of liturgy.
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28-Feb-2012
Life Teen is an online website for Catholic teenagers. It includes videos, new books and mags of interest to teenagers, as well as a broad range of information about spirituality and becoming closer to Christ.
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27-Feb-2012
The Franciscans in the Holy Land, who have preserved Catholic sanctuaries in the area throughout the last 800 years, have a website offering more information about the sacred sites as well as pilgrimages to the region.
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26-Feb-2012
The prestigious Blake Prize for Religious Art has launched a website with an educational tool kit about religion, art and the issues they raise.
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01-Mar-2012
Two school boys get into a fight in a park on the way home from school. One hits the other with a stick, and the boys’ parents meet in a high-rise Brooklyn apartment to discuss the matter. Everyone intends the meeting to be short but unexpected events manage to prolong the visit and the couples attack each other mercilessly
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29-Feb-2012
This engrossing movie is the closest film to a masterpiece that has hit Australian screens in the last three years. The film is a compelling human drama, brilliantly directed and acted, about persons trying to cope with their moral, psychological and religious conflicts in contemporary Iran.
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26-Feb-2012
The title tells it all. This is a film about the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when a terrorist attack destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City. The movie begins with a body falling in slow motion out of the sky.
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28-Feb-2012
During this time of Lent, Noel Debien visited the beautiful new Coptic cathedral of St Mary's and St Mina's church at Bexley in Sydney and spoke with Fr Yousef Fanous.
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27-Feb-2012
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?’ Fr James Martin might have said exactly the same thing about his latest book, Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life.
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01-Mar-2012
The US Republican contest between Rick Santorum, an ultra-conservative ultra-Catholic (pictured) on the one hand and Mitt Romney, a billionaire venture capitalist Mormon on the other, is one of the most intriguing spectacles American politics has offered the world for some time, writes The Tablet in an editorial.
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29-Feb-2012
Though I consider myself agnostic, a curious pattern, and a source of jest for my friends, has emerged from my reading. Most of my favourite imaginative writers are Catholic. And not just cultural or nominal Catholics but devoted practitioners like Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor and Czeslaw Milosz, who wrestled unabated with all the demands of their faith, writes Lucas Smith in Eureka Street.
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28-Feb-2012
Alain de Botton's latest book aims to show that religion serves needs that an entirely secular life cannot satisfy. He will not persuade those for whom atheism is a militant creed. Such people are best left with their certainties, however childish, writes John Gray in ABC Religion and Ethics Online.
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27-Feb-2012
Does the Vatican need a Freedom of Information Act? An FOI Act supposedly gives citizens the right to know what information the government is holding about us, or indeed about other matters, with certain safeguards, writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in The Catholic Herald.
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26-Feb-2012
We are all too aware of division and disharmony in this Church that 50 years ago promoted unity and freedom of conscience. We live in times when some theologians are “silenced” for their attempt to give contemporary expression to the ancient Christian truths. It is time for all us to reconsider the call of John XXIII for “Christian charity”, to work for unity, to engage with the people of our times, writes Catherine McCahill SGS in The Good Oil.
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