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02-May-2012
England's Catholic jurisdiction for former Anglicans has received a $250,000 donation from Pope Benedict XVI, prompting an expression of thanks from its top cleric, reports the Catholic News Agency and The Tablet.
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01-May-2012
One of the Vatican's most senior media advisers says new media can be utilised to debunk suspicions about the Catholic Church, reports Ninemsn.
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01-May-2012
A Sydney Catholic priest who revealed he has been married for a year has been removed from his post by church officials, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-May-2012
Speculation that the Federal Government may reduce its future commitment to foreign aid and development has prompted Caritas Australia to appeal to the good will of the people and the national leaders, reports The Catholic Leader.
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30-Apr-2012
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has praised Pope John XXIII’s historic encyclical “Pacem in Terris” as “a great thing,” reports the Catholic News Agency.
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30-Apr-2012
Amid declining numbers of nuns entering the church, five Catholic Presentation Sisters each celebrated a jubilee at Wagga’s Sacred Heart church over the weekend, reports The Daily Advertiser.
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29-Apr-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has personally written to the head of the German bishops' conference to change the text of the Mass to say that Christ died "for many" rather than "for all", reports The Tablet.
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02-May-2012
Cardinal Sean Brady, the leader of Ireland's four million Catholics, says he won't resign after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up 1970s child abuse committed by a pedophile priest who went on to assault scores of other children for decades, reports AP in a story published by The Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-May-2012
A retired Catholic priest and a one-time personal friend of the NSW Attorney-General, Greg Smith, has been charged over alleged sexual abuse of four children in the 1970s and 1980s, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-May-2012
A new approach is needed in labour market policy that would place the dignity of the worker at the centre of deliberations on pay and conditions, says Australian Catholic Social Justice Council chairman Bishop Christopher Saunders, reports The Catholic Leader.
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30-Apr-2012
American religious congregations have withdrawn about $40 million nationwide from the country's largest banks, including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, as part of a cmpaign to make banks accountable for their impact on families, reports the Catholic News Service.
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30-Apr-2012
More than 200 people have participated in a silent vigil outside the Holy See’s Nunciature in Dublin to protest the silencing or censuring of several Irish priests by the Vatican and to ask for the revocation of these disciplinary measures and their replacement by dialogue, reports Vatican Insider.
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30-Apr-2012
Catholic Social Services Australia has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to establish a National Children’s Commissioner, it said in a media statement.
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29-Apr-2012
The federal government has confirmed the appointment of lawyer John McCarthy, QC, to represent Australia at the Vatican, according to an AAP report in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Apr-2012
Former AFL star Dermott Brereton has revealed that he received repeated death threats at the height of his spectacular career in the 1980s, and they were based on his Irish heritage, reports The Herald Sun.
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29-Apr-2012
At least 21 have been killed and many wounded in two separate attacks in Nigeria and Kenya as people were about to attend Mass yesterday, reports Reuters in an article published by Vatican Insider.
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30-Apr-2012
The Catholic Church should embrace online tools such as Twitter and Facebook to deliver its message, Bishop David Walker has told delegates at a Catholic conference, reports Adelaide Now.
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29-Apr-2012
‘‘Faith In Every Student’’ is the theme for Catholic Schools Week in NSW, reports The Newcastle Herald.
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02-May-2012
A self-insured Catholic-owned business has filed a lawsuit that could potentially stop the Obama administration's contraception and abortion-causing drug mandate within the next three months, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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02-May-2012
The Catholic Church has joined with Aboriginal leaders in opposing the Federal Government's draft Stronger Futures laws, reports SBS.
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01-May-2012
The 19th annual "Catholic Oscars" has been held but it wasn't only the winners who were in the spotlight. It was also the controversy that their selection had generated, reports the Catholic News Service.
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29-Apr-2012
The Holy See will have its own stand at the 55th Venice Biennale next year. It will host artists from around the world, whose work deals with subjects from the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis, reports Vatican Insider.
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News - National
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25-Apr-2012
Cardinal George Pell has supported Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s suggestion that the values Anzac Day represents have grown beyond the military roots of the day, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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News - International
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26-Apr-2012
The Passionist congregation in Ireland has confirmed that the Vatican acted last year against prominent media priest Father Brian D’Arcy, reports the Irish Times.
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Regulars
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02-May-2012
In his new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Catholic convert Ross Douthat argues that churches, and society as a whole, are imperiled by belief systems that draw from the Christian Gospel while seriously distorting it, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-May-2012
Up until a few years ago she worked as a club dancer in Milan. Now she is a nun and dances “in praise of God.” She also teaches dancing in order to “bring people closer to Him.” This is the real story of Sister Anna Nobili of the Congregation Of Working Sisters Of The Holy House Of Nazareth, reports Vatican Insider.
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30-Apr-2012
When Sister Elaine Lachance devoted herself to a religious life in 1959, her religious order had more than a dozen convents in the US with nearly 260 sisters.Today, the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, has just five convents in Maine and Massachusetts, with 56 sisters. Lachance has turned to the Internet to attract women who feel the calling, reports The Age.
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29-Apr-2012
Award-winning educator Frank Pearce is embarrassed by all the fuss and attention after he was named winner of the Brother John Taylor Award for excellence in Catholic Education, reports Catholic Communications, from the Archdiocese of Sydney.
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02-May-2012
The website of Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) carries a wide range of articles, links, videos and an accessible design.
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01-May-2012
This website, from the National Catholic Education Commission, addresses all of the contemporary issues affecting education and schooling.
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30-Apr-2012
Caritas supporters have taken a stand in solidarity with the world’s poor. This website has a video from the South Pacific, plus details of petitions and other activities.
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29-Apr-2012
The Stewardship Network is an association of representatives from nine Australian Catholic dioceses who have agreed to participate in regular teleconferences to advance the growth of stewardship across Australia and New Zealand.
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01-May-2012
I am glad that I saw this film and can say that I was moved by it. It is a tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the most significant public figures of the late twentieth century, early 21st century, a strong woman and political leader.
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30-Apr-2012
The title of this film is not to be confused with the same title given to the classic television series, built around two British agents, Emma Peel and John Steed. This movie comes from the series of super-hero films produced by Marvel Studios, and based on the Marvel Comics super-hero team of the same name. The film is the sixth instalment in the Marvel series.
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29-Apr-2012
Durban, 1990. Life in South Africa is about to change radically. As shown during this film, FW de Klerk, makes his speech in parliament and announces the release of Nelson Mandela. This is the background to this story of a year of a young boy in boarding school.
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02-May-2012
What is the role of chaplains in the armed forces, and how do soldiers, sailors and airmen maintain, develop or even lose their faith in combat? That’s the title of a new project produced by the Australian Defence Force, called Faith Under Fire. The Religion & Ethics Report brought together a number of ministers from various Christian faiths to discuss the subject.
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02-May-2012
English writer Piers Paul Read laments the fact that none of his children practise their faith, despite a Catholic education and a conscientious Catholic father. Read blames their schools, where the emphasis was on justice and peace and the Catechism was ignored, writes Francis Phillips in the Catholic Herald.
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01-May-2012
If the church is to be judged by its commitment to reconciliation, it is hard to rejoice at the Vatican's action against American nuns, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street The bishops may be able to establish an effective office for dealing with women religious, but it is hard to see how the religious themselves could see the revised institution as effectively representing them.
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30-Apr-2012
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy, the popular forecast called for stormy weather ahead. During most of the past seven years, however, that anticipated upheaval has seemed a lot like the dog that didn’t bark. Of late, however, many observers believe the “real Ratzinger” has finally come out to play, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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29-Apr-2012
Child abuse is by no means limited to the Catholic Church. The focus should be on all, not some. Which is why the investigative job is too big for a state parliamentary committee, writes Paul Daley in The Age.
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