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19-Apr-2012
Citing "serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life," the Vatican has announced a major reform of an association of women's religious congregations in the US to ensure their fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women's ordination and homosexuality, reports the Catholic News Service.
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22-Apr-2012
The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has no intention of moving its diocesan offices to a site in Mayfield which was recently purchased by the diocese, Bishop Bill Wright said in a media statement in response ot a report in the Newcastle Herald last week.
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22-Apr-2012
Anglicans in Christchurch, New Zealand have found an innovative solution to replace their Victorian Gothic cathedral which was destroyed in last February's earthquake. The new structure, designed by the award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, will be built of recycled cardboard, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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23-Apr-2012
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, will not be able to exempt the Churches from a duty to offer marriages to gay couples, a senior Catholic barrister has warned, according to a report in The Catholic Herald.
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23-Apr-2012
As the largest leadership organisation for US women religious begins to discern what steps to take following news that the Vatican has ordered it to reform, experts say the options available to the group are stark, reports NCR Online.
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23-Apr-2012
A Catholic order of nuns that allegedly removed up to 10 children of mixed race from their families in New Guinea in the 1960s has denied doing so without permission, reports The Australian.
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23-Apr-2012
Peter Slipper's ambition to serve as a parish priest could still be realised, despite the sex and fraud scandals engulfing him, the leader of Australia's Traditional Anglican Communion affirmed yesterday, according to a story in The Australian.
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22-Apr-2012
The state government has been urged to widen the inquiry into sex abuse by priests to consider how to make it easier for victims to sue the Catholic Church, reports The Age.
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22-Apr-2012
Embattled MP Peter Slipper will be asked to stand down from his role as a priest in the Traditional Anglican Communion while allegations he sexually harassed a male adviser and misused taxpayer money are investigated, reports The Australian.
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19-Apr-2012
Former priest Brian Spillane has been sentenced to nine years in jail for a number of sexual assaults on young girls described by the presiding judge as "serious, planned and callous", reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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23-Apr-2012
The West Australian Premier has been criticised for rejecting Federal Government funding for 32 Catholic and independent schools, reports the ABC.
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23-Apr-2012
Strathfield Council in Sydney's west has claimed the Australian Catholic University failed to grant access to its records in its dispute over a proposed development, the Inner West Courier reports.
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22-Apr-2012
Martin Laverty, CEO of Catholic Health Australia, has welcomed the government's reforms of the aged care system but he believes they have not gone as far as CHA and many in the aged care sector would have liked, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
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22-Apr-2012
A lewd Nativity scene image on the American satirical news program, The Daily Show, has provoked heavy criticism and the threat of a boycott from Catholics, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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News - National
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26-Apr-2012
Tasmania's Catholic schools have vowed to introduce a four-term year in 2013 even if the change is not adopted by the public system, reports the ABC.
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26-Apr-2012
Bishop Greg O’Kelly has said that Australian Catholic schools are affected by a rampant superficiality that is is widespread throughout the country’s education system, reports Eureka Street.
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26-Apr-2012
Boosting the number of young, vibrant students who will explore bars, pubs and cafes in their spare time is the key to revitalising North Sydney’s CBD, said ACU vice-chancellor Professor Greg Craven in an interview with the Mosman Daily.
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25-Apr-2012
A priest defending child sex allegations has asserted that his alleged victims fabricated claims against him to obtain compensation from the Church, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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25-Apr-2012
The proposed break-up of NSW’s largest diocese, and the allocation of its parishes to neighbouring dioceses, will be discussed at next week’s Australian Catholic Bishops Conference meeting before submission to Rome, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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25-Apr-2012
The government is poised to appoint an old friend of the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, the Sydney QC John McCarthy, as ambassador to the Vatican, but the process has been dogged by leaks and frustration with the length of time the Holy See is taking to rubber-stamp the appointment, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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23-Apr-2012
CathNews will take a break tomorrow and join the nation in honouring our Anzac heroes. We will be back as usual on Thursday.
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News - International
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26-Apr-2012
The Vatican has expressed concern that some bishops in China have "usurped" the Catholic Church's authority and are confusing the faithful, says an Associated Press report published in Newsday.
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26-Apr-2012
82 year old retired Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz will head a Vatican commission to investigate leaks of confidential information to the media over the last few weeks, reports Independent Catholic News.
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25-Apr-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has said that all pastoral work, including promoting social justice and providing for the poor, must be nourished by prayer, reports Catholic News Service.
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25-Apr-2012
Two Catholic bodies in the US are asking the Bishop of Worcester in New England to reconsider his position on having the widow of former Senator Edward Kennedy speak at a small Massachusetts Catholic college’s commencement, reports the Boston Herald.
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Regulars
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22-Apr-2012
In her new book, American author Dawn Eden helps bring healing to victims of childhood sexual abuse while clearing up common misconceptions surrounding the sainthood of the chastity martyrs, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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26-Apr-2012
Mark von Riedmann, director of Catholic Radio and Television Network and international communications coordinator for Aid to the Church in Need, explains Where God Weeps, a weekly television news program created to give a voice to those who are experiencing religious persecution.
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25-Apr-2012
Following the recent consistory, Pope Benedict has assigned the new cardinals to various dicasteries of the Roman curia. Vatican Diary analyses the influence of the new cardinals. - www.chiesa
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23-Apr-2012
The Catholic priest standing at the end of Madge Hayes' hospital bed needed to make a snap decision. Mrs Hayes' new baby boy, born 11 weeks prematurely, had been given a life expectancy of two minutes, reports The West Australian. Father O'Sullivan, called to attend the birth at a Perth hospital for an emergency baptism to save the baby's tiny soul, suddenly realised he had a problem.
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26-Apr-2012
On 1 January 2012, the former Melbourne College of Divinity was re-named MCD University of Divinity, officially becming Australia’s first University of Specialisation and the first university to be established in Victoria in over two decades. It also includes a growing online repository of research articles. - www.mcd.edu.au
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25-Apr-2012
The International Young Christian Workers is this year celebrating the celebrating of the founding of the first YCW team by Fr Joseph Cardijn in the Brussels suburb of Laeken. - www.joci.org
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23-Apr-2012
This is the Catholic Diocese of the Australian Defence Force which has been charged with the pastoral care of the uniformed members of Australia's navy, army and air force, their families and of the civilians employed by the Department of Defence.
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22-Apr-2012
Catholic Religious Australia has a new website. National President Anne Derwin says the new site will enable CRA to more effectively report on those ministries and keep the Catholic and wider community up-to-date on the latest news and issues.
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23-Apr-2012
This film is a science fiction, naval war film made by the same distributors who were responsible for Transformers (2007). A race of aliens, known as “The Regents”, travel to Earth on a mission to build their power source in the ocean, and they engage in an intense battle with a US naval fleet based in Hawaiian waters.
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22-Apr-2012
This film is based on an American best-selling novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks (2008). It tells the story of a US Marine Sergeant, Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), who returns to his country after his third tour of duty in Iraq. He claims that the only thing that kept him alive during the war was a photograph of a woman he didn’t even know.
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25-Apr-2012
Ross Douthat has a new book which speaks of heresy. I am glad he uses this term—heresy—and he is quite sophisticated in his understanding of the issue. Both Hegel and Kierkegaard spoke of the important role of heresy in the development of the Christian doctrine, and Douthat too seems to see orthodoxy and heresy in some sort of dialectical relationship. - John Presnall in First Things
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26-Apr-2012
By acting against Irish Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery now, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith may well have scored an own goal by provoking the ire of the priests’ association, argues Michael Kelly in the National Catholic Reporter.
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25-Apr-2012
This year's plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of Blessed Pope John XXIII’s landmark encyclical Pacem in terris. Vatican Radio's Stefano Leszczynski spoke to President of the Academy, Dr Mary Ann Glendon.
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23-Apr-2012
"Filthy, rotten system" is Dorothy Day’s most famous quote. The problem is that the legendary Catholic social reformer probably never said it, writes Brian Terrell in NCR Online.
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22-Apr-2012
Catholicism’s reputation as a monolithic belief system is plainly no longer deserved. The latest evidence comes from what was until not long ago one of the most conservative parts of Western Catholicism, the Catholic Church in Ireland, writes The Tablet in an editorial.
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25-Apr-2012
Fr Bruce Duncan will this Saturday launch Kevin Peoples' new book "Santamaria's Salesman" recounting his experiences in working with the National Catholic Rural Movement during the 1960s. - Sunday 29 April, 3pm, Brigidine Centre, 52 Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park.
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