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20-Mar-2012
CathNews wishes to apologise to subscribers over the very late, or non-arrival, of yesterday's newsletter. The delay was due to technical difficulties in getting it sent to the electronic delivery house. Please note that in the event of late newsletter delivery, the daily bulletin can always be accessed at www.cathnews.com
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News - National
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22-Mar-2012
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen, is taking part in Caritas Australia's Project Compassion campaign in a personal bid to help end global poverty, Caritas said in a statement.
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22-Mar-2012
The St Vincent de Paul Society has called upon the Government to honour its 2010 promise to end child detention, saying the unequivocal consequence of keeping children in detention is cruelty, the organisation said in a statement.
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21-Mar-2012
The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has called on the new Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr to change the direction of Australia's approach to conflict in the Indonesian provinces of West Papua, reports The Catholic Leader.
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21-Mar-2012
Bishop Terry Brady, auxiliary bishop of Sydney, has called on Irish Australians to lead the welcome for asylum seekers in Australia, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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19-Mar-2012
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell has announced the Archdiocese of Sydney's fifth grant of $100,000 to support adult stem cell research, reports according to a media release.
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18-Mar-2012
An international research project led by an Australian Catholic University (ACU) professor has found that the factors leading to incidents of cyber-bullying are different to those which result in traditional bullying, said a report in Science Alert.
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19-Mar-2012
Independent and Catholic schools in Victoria have called on the Federal Government to release funding data so they can calculate the impact of proposed changes on families, reports The Age.
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19-Mar-2012
Sydney's Strathfield Council is calling on the state government to intervene in the Australian Catholic University's proposal to expand its Strathfield Campus, reports the Inner West Courier.
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20-Mar-2012
The Liberal National Party's first 100-day plan for Queensland office does not include a mention of repealing civil unions, despite its leader's declaration last week they would "immediately" look into the changes, reports The Australian.
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21-Mar-2012
The recently rebuilt St Mary's Cathedral in Perth was filled to overflowing last night for the installation of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, reports The West Australian.
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20-Mar-2012
Perth's Archbishop Barry Hickey will hand over leadership of the archdiocese to Archbishop-designate Timothy Costelloe SDB during a Solemn Mass and Reception in the city's St Mary's Cathedral at 6.30pm today, according to a media release from the archdiocese.
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19-Mar-2012
The Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn has put parishioners on notice that some Masses will be cancelled unless more people attend, reports The Canberra Times.
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News - International
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21-Mar-2012
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Benedict, has declared the position of the Society of St Pius X as "insufficient" on certain basic doctrinal principles and criteria for interpreting church teaching, reports the Catholic News Service.
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18-Mar-2012
Australia's 80,000 Coptic Christians last night mourned the death of their charismatic and much-loved leader, Pope Shenouda III, 88, who died in Cairo on Saturday night, reports The Age.
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22-Mar-2012
The lack of any meeting with the victims of the founder of the Legionaries of Christ could tarnish Pope Benedict's visit to Mexico, reports the Vatican Insider.
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20-Mar-2012
The New York Times is being accused of practising a double standard when it comes to questioning religion, after it ran an ad calling on Catholics to leave their church - but not one making the same plea to Muslims, reports Fox News.
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20-Mar-2012
The leader of Cuba's Women in White protest group says recent harassment by state police will not deter them from their peaceful defense of human rights and from attending the Masses Pope Benedict will celebrate during his visit to the country March 26-28, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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18-Mar-2012
Retired Bishop Geoffrey Robinson has called for "a new study of everything to do with sexuality" at a symposium in the United States, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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18-Mar-2012
Pope Benedict will address issues ranging from the war on drug cartels in Mexico to reviving faith in Cuba, during his first visit to Latin America, said an AFP report in The Daily Telegraph.
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18-Mar-2012
The Obama administration has announced new accommodations on a controversial mandate requiring contraceptive coverage in health care plans, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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22-Mar-2012
An anonymous artist has designed a pamphlet depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross and has arranged them so they sit alongside stations of the Tube line in London, reports The Catholic Herald.
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22-Mar-2012
Pope Benedict has appointed a German bishop who had been accused of financial irregularities and hitting children to the Vatican's health care council, said a Catholic News Service report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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21-Mar-2012
A new report says that 85 percent of hate crimes committed in Europe during 2011 were aimed at Christians, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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21-Mar-2012
Ireland's Cardinal Sean Brady has welcomed the findings of the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland, saying it could help in the "on-going spiritual and moral renewal of the Church" in the country, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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20-Mar-2012
The Vatican has expressed its "dismay and betrayal" at the "sinful and criminal acts" by Catholic clergy guilty of child abuse across Ireland, reports the BBC, and has proposed new vetting and child protection training for all would-be clergy in Ireland, according to The Guardian.
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20-Mar-2012
The Vatican Bank has had one of its accounts closed by JP Morgan bank after stonewalling requests for information - less than two weeks after the US State Department listed the Vatican as being vulnerable to money laundering, said a report by the Telegraph.co.uk in The Canberra Times.
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19-Mar-2012
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has expressed his "deepest condolences" for the deaths of the teacher and three children killed in a bomb attack outside a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, reports Vatican Insider.
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19-Mar-2012
At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated "to get rid of homosexuality" while in the care of the Church in the Netherlands in the 1950s, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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18-Mar-2012
The Vatican has opened a criminal investigation into unauthorised leaks of confidential documents to the Italian media, reports the BBC from L'Osservatore Romano.
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22-Mar-2012
Church leaders in Syria say there is "an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians" by militant Islamists, reports the Independent Catholic News from Fides.
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Regulars
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22-Mar-2012
Good Samaritan Sister, Hiro Kageyama, will return to Japan this weekend after a 10-month sabbatical that has taken her to some of Australia’s remote destinations, reports The Good Oil.
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21-Mar-2012
More than 100 women from across Victoria attended the 8th Anima Lenten Retreat held last weekend at Nazareth House, Camberwell, in Melbourne. The theme of this year’s retreat - Contemplating the Face of Christ - was taken from the upcoming Year of Grace. The retreat director for the day was Fr Paschal Corby OFM Conv, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne website.
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20-Mar-2012
Before 2003 I thought that hermits were extinct – as dead as a Dodo. I had heard of some of the medieval hermit saints, but in the 21st century, in Britain, surely not. Yet now I am an anchorite, as was Julian of Norwich, and for one precious year the bishop locked me in, writes Anonymous in The Catholic Herald.
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19-Mar-2012
The ordination of Fr Victor Pringle, a retired Anglican minister, has brought him full circle from his boyhood contacts with the Church to his ordination last week in St Francis of Assisi’s church, Paddington, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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18-Mar-2012
A French journalist (pictured) who has chronicled the story of imprisoned Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, revealed a typical day for the Catholic mother of five as she awaits the appeal of her death sentence over alleged blasphemy charges, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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22-Mar-2012
The Vatican's news portal has a wide range of stories about the Church, with a user-friendly interface that includes video clips.
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21-Mar-2012
Faith Doing Justice is run by the Australian Jesuits. In the Australian Province today they are joined in their mission of service to faith, and the promotion of the justice which faith demands, by women and men who share this vision. This website has links to its varied works.
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20-Mar-2012
Ethica Accessories is a not-for-profit organisation, founded by the Sisters of St Joseph, which specialises in quality fair trade products from Peru.
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19-Mar-2012
CIDSE is an international alliance of 16 Catholic development agencies, mainly from Europe and north America. Its website has a rich and diverse array of articles, news and programs about the alliance's work.
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18-Mar-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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21-Mar-2012
The Rum Diary is a memorable, idiosyncratic film which gives interesting insight into theCaribbean island of Puerto Rico in the late 50s, and the early career of Hunter S Thompson, the American journalist and author whose approach to his work gave rise to the term ‘gonzo’ journalism.
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20-Mar-2012
This sub-titled German movie has a strangely unforgettable title that needs some explanation. The film movingly tells the story of a young, 27-year old man, Vincent, who suffers from Tournette’s Syndrome.
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18-Mar-2012
Despite the bellicose title, this seems to be a perfect date film! It starts with action, villains, explosions, derring-do agents in a Hong Kong setting. The men who like this kind of stuff are reeled in.
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22-Mar-2012
Mary MacKillop was an early-adopter of education methods, and her modern sisters are early adopters of computing technology. If you wander into the Mary MacKillop museum next to her shrine in North Sydney, you will find a large table-top screen, a unique nexus of computing design.
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22-Mar-2012
A few years ago I unexpectedly found myself as the guest of an archbishop whose diocese was a large bustling city in Bolivia. Not only did I get a shock at the sight of so much poverty in Bolivia, but I was also immensely surprised at the manner and lifestyle of the archbishop, writes Fr David Forrester in The Catholic Herald.
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21-Mar-2012
For Christians, it is the Season of Lent, a time for preparing hearts and minds for the great feast of Easter. At this time I’ve been drawn to the riches of the past and have been reading the Lenten Pastoral of 1849 by the first Catholic Bishop of Australia, Archbishop John Bede Polding, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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20-Mar-2012
The current criticism of US bishops over the health mandate ignores the reality that, in a Catholic understanding of public life, religious freedom is a social-justice issue, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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19-Mar-2012
This column is late. Months late. Years late, actually. But I admit that it writes itself in my head almost every day. This month, there were two separate situations that require it be said rather than simply thought, writes Joan Chittister in NCR Online.
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18-Mar-2012
Catholics need a firm understanding of marriage if they are to resist attempts to alter its meaning, writes Christopher West in The Catholic Herald.
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19-Mar-2012
Mary Ward International Australia (MWIA) is hosting the next of its Indigenous Conversations next Monday at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney's lower north shore.
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