News - National
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08-Mar-2012
The irrationality of proposals to kill newborns is founded in the irrationality of the killing of the unborn, says Chris Meney, director of the Sydney archdiocese's Life, Marriage and Family Centre, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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07-Mar-2012
The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations (ACCER) has called on Fair Work Australia to increase the national minimum wage, claiming that current standards amount to "poverty wages" for low-income working families, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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07-Mar-2012
Australian Greens MP Adam Bandt will use question time in parliament next week to try to reignite the voluntary euthanasia debate, said a report on ninemsn.com.au.
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06-Mar-2012
The head of the St Vincent de Paul charity has called for the scrapping of the NT Intervention and launched a scathing attack on the Federal Government over its treatment of Aboriginal people, said an AAP report in The West Australian.
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04-Mar-2012
Anglican breakaway Archbishop John Hepworth has been removed from his post as the global primate of the church at a meeting of bishops in South Africa, reports The Australian.
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05-Mar-2012
A new mausoleum, named after Saint Mary of the Cross, has been completed in Parkville in inner Melbourne, reports The Age
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06-Mar-2012
Charges have been withdrawn against a Sydney man who was accused of the abduction and extortion of a Greek Orthodox priest, reports news.com.au.
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08-Mar-2012
A priest who pleaded guilty to eight counts of making child exploitation material has been sentenced to nine months in prison, to be wholly suspended, reports The Brisbane Times.
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08-Mar-2012
Queensland LNP leader Campbell Newman has joked that he may agree to kiss Federal MP Joe Hockey if he "reaches the reserve price" for a charity auction but reaffirmed that he will not attend a meeting about marriage equality for same-sex couples, said an AAP report in The Business Spectator.
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07-Mar-2012
A Brisbane priest has pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court to eight counts of making child exploitation material, reports The Courier-Mail.
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06-Mar-2012
If elected in Queensland, the Liberal National Party (LNP) would spend an extra $115m over four years on the state's school infrastructure, with 75 per cent of the additional funds allocated to private schools, reports The Australian.
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05-Mar-2012
The first legal civil unions of Queensland same-sex couples have taken place, but their future remains uncertain if the Liberal National Party (LNP) wins government on March 24, said an AAP report in The Age.
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04-Mar-2012
Mary MacKillop Care has bucked the steep fall in donations to South Australian charities as households respond to tough times, reports The Adelaide Advertiser.
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04-Mar-2012
The twice-weekly recital of the Angelus will be introduced into every Catholic primary school in Adelaide within months, said a report by The Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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News - International
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08-Mar-2012
The United States Department of State has added the Vatican to a list of 67 countries that could be potentially susceptible to money-laundering, the Vatican Insider reports.
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07-Mar-2012
A hacker group called Anonymous has taken down the Vatican's website, saying it was targeting the "corrupt" Church, a day after a high-profile bust of the group's alleged leaders, reports AFP on AdelaideNow.
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07-Mar-2012
The constant noise that accompanies modern life is an enemy of God's word being heard in prayer, Pope Benedict said, according to the Catholic News Agency.
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06-Mar-2012
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will pray together with Pope Benedict in a rare gesture of unity on Saturday, reports AFP on Google News.
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05-Mar-2012
Catholicism is in one of the darkest periods of its history - and the worst ever in the United States - according to a visiting priest who has just finished an international 10-part television series about the church, reports The Age.
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05-Mar-2012
Wartime Pope Pius XII - accused by historians of being too compliant towards Hitler - was praised by former Jewish prisoners for preventing their deportation to death camps, according to documents released from the Vatican's secret archives, the UK Telegraph reports.
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04-Mar-2012
An Italian newspaper last week published two confidential letters documenting a failed 2011 effort by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's powerful Secretary of State, to take control of an important Italian Catholic university and hospital system, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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07-Mar-2012
A priest's contract at a Jesuit-run Boston College in Massachussetts has been terminated because of his insistence that women should be allowed to enter the priesthood, said a report on ucanews.com.
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05-Mar-2012
Amid controversy over a gay woman in the US state of Maryland being denied Communion because of her relationship, a priest who writes on faith and culture emphasised the need to balance respect for the Eucharist with pastoral sensitivity, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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06-Mar-2012
A group of men in one southern German community are giving up their careers to become priests, said a Reuters report on the Yahoo7 News website.
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05-Mar-2012
The Church in Britain is considering enlisting the support of more than a million regular worshippers in opposition to Government plans for same-sex marriage, reports the UK Telegraph.
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04-Mar-2012
Britain's most senior cleric says he hopes Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani politician murdered a year ago, might one day be declared a saint, The Catholic Herald reports.
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04-Mar-2012
About 4000 young and vulnerable Timorese children, many of them Catholics, were secretly taken to Indonesia where some of them were forced to work in slave-like conditions while others were educated and grew up with the families of soldiers, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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06-Mar-2012
Church aid workers are scrambling to find housing for hundreds of Syrian refugees who have fled to neighboring Lebanon because of ongoing violence between Syrian forces and armed rebels, reports the Catholic News Service.
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Regulars
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08-Mar-2012
Dr Claire Renkin has lectured in art history and spirituality in Melbourne for the past 11 years. She has also curated a museum exhibition of art and is currently researching the visual imagery of Mary Magdalene in late medieval Florence. Kairos spoke to Claire about the importance of art history and spirituality, in an article published in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
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06-Mar-2012
Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam has a tongue-in-cheek suggestion for pastors: "Spend less time on the sermons, and more time arranging the church suppers," reports NCR.
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06-Mar-2012
Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Monsignor Paul Tighe (pictured) has said ahead of his visit to Australia, that the Australian Church is one of the best users of Social Media that he has seen, reports Beth Doherty on the Vatican's Social Media site.
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05-Mar-2012
Sharon D'Mello is an information systems co-ordinator with Caritas Australia. Here, she reflects on visiting Uganda last year, in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
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04-Mar-2012
Not many fathers can boast “legendary” status from their teenage sons. Adelaide market gardener Van Tu Nguyen can, reports Southern Cross. The father of six (pictured with one of his sons) was recently knighted into an ancient Catholic order under the protection of Pope Benedict XVI and traced back to the principal leader of the First Crusade.
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08-Mar-2012
The Australian Pastoral Musicians Network comprises clergy and other pastoral leaders, musicians and singers, teachers and educators, parishes and dioceses, composers and publishers. The APMN website carries details of workshops, internet resources, events and other items of interest.
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07-Mar-2012
The Association of Catholic School Principals works with other education bodies to challenge and respond to education issues. Its website carries a wide range of relevant educational news, reports and statistics about Catholic education.
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06-Mar-2012
The Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is a membership organization for diocesan clergy. However, the Confraternity welcomes and encourages lay and religious associate members.
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05-Mar-2012
Catholics for Israel is a Catholic apostolate, faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, of Jewish and Gentile Catholics from Israel and from the nations. Its mission includes building bridges between Israel and the Church.
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04-Mar-2012
The Official website for “A Year of Grace” was launched on Friday, signalling the start of preparations for this important event for the Catholic Church in Australia.
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08-Mar-2012
Headhunters is a novel by Jo Nesbo, whose crime stories are beginning to be more prominent on bookshop shelves. This film might encourage such interest. With its Norwegian settings, business and fraud plot, many audiences with be thinking of Stig Larsson and his Millennium series. However, the storytelling here is more direct, leaving the complications and twists until the end.
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04-Mar-2012
This is a compelling film about the relationships of power, filial devotion, authority and emotions in a political context racked with factional conflict, and viciousness. Ralph Fiennes’ acting is extraordinary, and his precise diction and phrasing give almost the perfect ring to Shakespeare’s writings.
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07-Mar-2012
It's obvious what's happening in Syria - or is it? The picture is often portrayed in stark black and white: a brutal government versus its pro-democracy citizenry. Encounter reports on how religious and communal ties within and without Syria reveal a more complex pattern of relationships at play.
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05-Mar-2012
Should students in public schools attend scripture classes, ethics classes or neither? Should they study instead all faiths in a class on comparative religion? That was one suggestion made last week at a parliamentary inquiry into ethics classes. This edition of the Religion and Ethics Report was broadcast on ABC Radio National last Wednesday but it can be heard and downloaded from the ABC website.
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08-Mar-2012
On Wednesday, a hackers’ network known as Anonymous took credit for temporarily bringing down the Vatican’s website, calling the Catholic church "corrupt" and "retrograde". But the more dangerous attacks come from within the Holy See, writes The Economist in an editorial.
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07-Mar-2012
Tell me, Jesus: What do you want me to be doing with my life now? Even as I ask, my spirit tells me my purpose in life never changes. It is to live each day as well as I can with the gifts and graces you grant me. But it’s hard when you can’t remember, writes Jane McAllister about her battle with Alzheimer's Disease, in NCR Online.
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06-Mar-2012
The Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry has set a new benchmark. A particular challenge to churches is the recommendation regarding mandatory reporting for clergy and church personnel. Any equivocation on this would be viewed with disdain by the community, writes Monsignor David Cappo in Eureka Street.
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05-Mar-2012
The Catholic Church does not oppose gay marriage. It considers it to be impossible. If it were possible, then we would have to support it since the Church tells that we must oppose all discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, writes Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP in The Tablet.The issue is not gay rights but that we are animals: rational animals according to the Medievals, spiritual animals open to sharing the life of God.
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04-Mar-2012
The Catholic community in Victoria provides extensive services for others - there are nearly 50 member organisations of Catholic Social Services Victoria. This is how thing should be, writes Denis Fitzgerald in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
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06-Mar-2012
Sr Margaret Mary Flynn ibvm, Province Leader of the Loreto Sisters, and formerly founding Director of CentaCare Wilcannia-Forbes, will be the guest speaker at the AGM of Catholic Social Services Victoria next Wednesday, March 14.
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