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24-May-2012
Dads who are absent from their family make it more difficult for their children to understand God as a loving father, said Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic News Agency reports.
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23-May-2012
A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church's leading exorcist has claimed, reports The Uk Telegraph in a story published in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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22-May-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has removed an Italian bishop from ministry following the launch of a police investigation into alleged financial corruption within his Sicily diocese, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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20-May-2012
The Vatican has promised to use legal remedies to fight another case of leaked documents in which numerous letters and reports from the desk of Pope Benedict XVI have been published in an Italian newspaper, reports Vatican Insider.
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20-May-2012
Catholic nuns on the north coast of NSW have taken part in a protest rally against the coal seam gas industry, reports the Northern Star.
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21-May-2012
An increase in the practice of surrogate pregnancy is leading to health risks, ethical concerns and a problematic understanding of the family, warns the founder of a bioethics organisation, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-May-2012
Diocesan co-ordinators from more than 30 dioceses met at Mary MacKillop Place earlier this month for discussions, prayer and planning for the Year of Grace, which officially begins on Sunday, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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22-May-2012
Catholic Social Services Australia welcomes the Government’s decision to proceed with an Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission in two stages rather than one, the organisation in a media statement.
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20-May-2012
Bathurst will become the sixth diocese in Australia to formalise the relationship between its Anglican and Catholic churches when they sign a covenant of friendship this week, reports the Western Advocate.
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17-May-2012
Monsignor John Woods has been elected Diocesan Administrator of Canberra-Goulburn to lead the Archdiocese until the installation of a new archbishop following the appointment of Archbishop Mark Coleridge to Brisbane, the diocese said in a statement.
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17-May-2012
The Catholic Church's relationship to Judaism as taught by the Second Vatican Council and the interpretations and developments of that teaching by subsequent popes, "are binding on a Catholic," said the Vatican official responsible for relations with the Jews, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-May-2012
An official says a court in central Vietnam has sentenced three Catholic political activists to up to three and a half years in prison for distributing anti-government leaflets, accordingg to an AP report published by Newsday.
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23-May-2012
The Vatican’s sports office has paid tribute to Chelsea striker Didier Drogba after the Catholic soccer star gave credit to God for his team’s UEFA Champions League victory, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-May-2012
The Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, has appointed Father Robert Riedling as the new Parish Priest of Padre Pio Catholic Parish, Glenmore Park in western Sydney, the diocese said in a release.
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23-May-2012
The organisation Human Rights Watch is calling on the Vietnamese Government to release four Catholic social activists accused of spreading propaganda against the state, reports Radio Australia.
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23-May-2012
Our political leaders are alienating the people and dividing the nation over the issues of immigration and border control, says Edmund Rice Centre director Phil Glendenning, according to The Catholic Weekly.
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22-May-2012
The leader of the Legionaries of Christ admitted yesterday that he knew for years the order's most famous priest (pictured) had fathered a child but still allowed the popular cleric to preach about morality, reports Reuters in a story published in the West Australian.
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21-May-2012
When fraudster Timothy Cousins walks out through prison gates, after serving at least two years for swindling the Catholic Education Office in Canberra, he will be looking for a new home, reports the Canberra Times.
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21-May-2012
A leader of a Christian church in West Java has urged Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take action against religious intolerance after radical Muslims were accused of throwing stones and urine at a church congregation, reports Ucanews.
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21-May-2012
A total of 43 Catholic dioceses, schools, hospitals, social service agencies and other institutions filed suit in a federal court yesterday to stop three government agencies from implementing a mandate that would require them to cover contraceptives and sterilisation in their health plans, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-May-2012
Lauren Cole says she travelled 45,000 kilometres in her first year in youth ministry. Her zest for the job has been recognised by winning the inaugural National Youth Ministry Scholarship, reports the Broken Bay Institute.
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22-May-2012
Approximately two thousand members of the Catholic Education community will gather in Bendigo tomorrow for the second Catholic Education Sandhurst Diocesan Conference, the Sandhurst CEO said in a media statement.
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21-May-2012
A new convent is being built in Penola in South Australia's south east next to the site where Mary MacKillop established her first school, reports the ABC in a story published on Yahoo7.
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20-May-2012
The author of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school’s Catholic identity, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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24-May-2012
Rockhampton Bishop Brian Heenan thinks there are better ways to support the city's most vulnerable people than the Federal Government's controversial income management scheme, reports the Central Queensland News.
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22-May-2012
Lawmakers in Brazil have put three bills up for debate in an attempt to overturn a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court in April that legalised abortion in cases of anencephaly, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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20-May-2012
Catholic bishops have led calls for the authorities to cancel concerts by Lady Gaga in Manila this week, with religious groups claiming the pop singer’s lyrics are “blasphemous”, reports Ucanews.
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22-May-2012
Lady Gaga was allowed to hold a second concert in Manila last night after state censors ruled her "provocative" act was within legal bounds, a city official said, in an AFP report published in the West Australian.
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21-May-2012
Lady Gaga has defied critics and state censors in the Philippines as up to 40,000 fans roared their approval at a concert in Manila last night, reports News.com.
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20-May-2012
When Leila Gurruwiwi attended St Killian's Primary school and later Catholic College Bendigo, she said she enjoyed her teachers and classes but was mainly interested in sports. The 24-year-old is now the presenter on The Marngrook Footy Show, reports the Bendigo Advertiser.
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Regulars
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24-May-2012
The new Archbishop of Dhaka, Patrick D’Rozario, tell Vatican Insider about the harmony that exists between the different religions and the role the Catholic Church can play there in the coming years.
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23-May-2012
Many vulnerable girls in Nepal are tricked into leaving home and working as prostitutes, sometimes by older women in their own communities. But now a local Catholic aid agency in Nepal is raising awareness of human trafficking and putting pressure on the Government to crack down on it, reports The Tablet.
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22-May-2012
An important part of South Australia’s history relating to the social welfare work of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop, has been documented and displayed by an Adelaide businessman, reports The Southern Cross, in an article republished by Catholic Religious Australia.
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21-May-2012
Kurt von Schuschnigg, whose father was chancellor of Austria when it was invaded by the Nazis, says that his Catholic faith helped him get through difficult times during World War II and now guides the way that he looks back at past events, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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20-May-2012
A month and a half ago, Austria's Cardinal Schönborn left his post in the pastoral council to a gay parishioner. In this interview with La Stampa, he defends this decision, but also explains that the teaching of the Catholic Church remains unchanged. He also speaks about dissent in the Austrian Church, reports Vatican Insider.
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24-May-2012
The Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers is the latest Vatican agency to launch its own website.
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23-May-2012
Compass is the Australian review of topical theology published quarterly by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
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22-May-2012
While everyone frets about the new twists in the global financial crisis, Washington Catholic think tank the Centre of Concern has been studying reform of the world's financial institutions since 1995 - Rethinking Bretton Woods
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21-May-2012
Cyber Sin is an eight-minute film that has been screened in Sydney’s Catholic schools as part of a major resource in the war on cyber-bullying. The website has details of the film and a link that allows viewers to watch it.
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20-May-2012
The Franciscans of the Immaculate were founded by the two Franciscan friars, Fr Stefano Maria Manelli and Fr Gabriel Maria Pellettieri.
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24-May-2012
In Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrated groups and met individuals as his alter egos, setting them up for some outrageous falls. The Dictator is scripted. So, the safe review is: for Sacha Baron Cohen fans only.
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23-May-2012
It’s a Jason Statham film. That is enough for film fans to know whether they want to see Safe or not. Statham, formerly a champion British Olympic diver, has made a name for himself for more than a decade as an action hero.
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22-May-2012
This romantic comedy has been produced by Jud Apatow, whose produced and/or directed films, run to a certain pattern. This one is no exception. There are usually some men and women behaving badly plotlines at first; then all seems lost, bad errors of judgment and conduct; then there is some recovery and acknowledgement of mistakes; then a firm emphasis on love and commitment.
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21-May-2012
The fact that W.E. was given very little cinema release raises the question about hostility -to Madonna who co-wrote and directed the film and/or to Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
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24-May-2012
I, Brian, a sinner, a most simple suburbian, a generally decent sort but subject to fits of selfishness, do here wish to confess and be shriven, in such a manner that speaking of that which I have not done well will provoke me to do better; this slight daily improvement being exactly the work we are asked to do by the Shining One, writes Brian Doyle, tongue-in-cheek, in Eureka Street.
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23-May-2012
This month, it was the Leadership Conference of Women Religious that bishops were concerned about. Before that, it was Catholic Charities in the United States. Then it was Caritas, and now it is the Girl Scouts, writes Joan Chittister in NCR Online. Each of them has been curtailed, "investigated" or put in some kind of canonical receivership because of their reputed lack of orthodoxy on sexual issues.
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22-May-2012
Next time you find yourself sucked into a debate with secularists, be careful not to make these five classic mistakes, writes Peter Williams in The Catholic Herald.
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21-May-2012
In my very short time as a priest, I have come to learn one thing very quickly: expect the unexpected, writes Father Greg Morgan, reflecting on his year at Broken Hill, in The Catholic Weekly.
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20-May-2012
The recent debacle over the Vatican’s criticism of the women religious of the United States is widely felt to emerge from a clericalism that has lost this sense of humility and proportion. It is most evident in the unloving tone that ignores the amazing fidelity and self-sacrifice of this group of American Catholic women over many generations, writes Laurence Freeman OSB in The Tablet.
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20-May-2012
Leading economist Saul Eslake will speak on the theme of Productivity at the annual Bishop Manning Lecture in Sydney on Thursday. The event, hosted by the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, is held in recognition of the Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta's contribution to the development of Catholic workplaces as places of justice and human dignity.
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