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27-May-2012
The Vatican is reported to be hunting for the masterminds of damaging leaks, with few believing the Pope's arrested butler was behind the scandal, according to an AFP report in the Daily Telegraph.
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31-May-2012
The lawyers for Paolo Gabriele have petitioned Vatican magistrates for house arrest for their client, who is accused of illegally possessing stolen documents as part of the so-called "VatiLeaks" scandal, reports the Catholic News Service.
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30-May-2012
The Pope has voiced regret for the turmoil surrounding the recent publication of leaked documents as the Vatican denounced the theft as a "brutal" personal attack on him, according to the Catholic News Service and Reuters.
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30-May-2012
Over 3,000 participants at the sixth annual World Congress of Families in Madrid, Spain (pictured) issued a declaration calling the family essential in solving present-day crises, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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29-May-2012
The Vatican said it is committed to restoring a sense of trust and transparency as it seeks the truth behind leaks of letters written by Vatican officials to each other and Pope Benedict XVI, reports the Catholic News Service.
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29-May-2012
Pope Benedict has expressed his deep sorrow at the massacre in Houla and called for politicians, faith leaders and the international community to redouble their efforts to bring peace to Syria, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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28-May-2012
The Vatican Bank’s president was dismissed for failing to carry out “basic duties,” giving people inaccurate information about the institution and “progressively erratic personal behaviour,” according to a leading board member, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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28-May-2012
The Vatican’s spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, has “completely” denied that any cardinal, Italian or foreign, is currently being investigated as part of the inquiry being carried out into the leaked Vatican documents, reports Vatican Insider.
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24-May-2012
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican bank, was fired yesterday by the bank's board of directors, who censured him for neglecting his duties amid worsening management problems, reports the Catholic News Service.
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29-May-2012
St Joseph's Church in Collingwood should not be torn down as it retains "important architectural, historical [and] cultural features", a conservation expert has declared, according to a report in The Melbourne Times Weekly.
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29-May-2012
An Italian priest has died after a church collapsed in Rovereto, near the city of Modena, after an earthquake struck while he tried to inspect and rescue some statues, reports the Vatican Insider.
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31-May-2012
The Milwaukee archdiocese in the United States has acknowledged it paid sexually abusive priests $20,000 to leave the priesthood without taking the laicisation fight to the Vatican, reports NCR Online.
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30-May-2012
Two new Catholic priests have arrived from India to boost the clergy in central Queensland, reports ABC Online. The Rockhampton diocese received three Indian priests last year and they have been posted to Mackay, Bundaberg and Longreach. The two new priests will initially be based in Rockhampton.
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30-May-2012
The St Vincent de Paul Society has joined the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations in calling on Fair Work Australia for an increase in safety net wage rates and the national minimum wage for the nation’s 1.4 million lowest paid workers, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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29-May-2012
Many Australians are using Facebook to find out about the Church following an advertising campaign run on the social networking site last year, The Tablet reports.
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28-May-2012
Vietnamese father of two Xuan Duc Nguyen is the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese’s newest permanent deacon after he was ordained by retiring Auxiliary Bishop Pat Power in St Christopher’s Cathedral, Forrest, reports the dicoese in a release.
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27-May-2012
A new study suggests that the Biblical date of Jesus' crucifixion is, in fact, possible to confirm, reports the Huffington Post.
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27-May-2012
An Indian sceptic (pictured) has sparked a blasphemy row after saying a dripping crucifix was not God's work but a result of bad plumbing, according to an AFP report in The West Australian.
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31-May-2012
The NSW upper house has passed a motion calling on the federal government to allow gay marriage, despite a Liberal MP saying that change could lead to polygamy, AAP reports in a story published in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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30-May-2012
Citing its need to restructure in the United States after a series of sex abuse scandals involving its founder and several prominent members, the Legionaries of Christ are withdrawing from their parish in Sacramento, California, effective July 1, reports NCR Online.
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28-May-2012
Sex abuse victims of priests in NSW may receive vastly higher compensation payments under a Greens proposal to let victims sue the Catholic Church directly, according to an AAP report in The Daily Telegraph.
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27-May-2012
A Victorian community is devastated their beloved Catholic church is closing, and disappointed that they were only given 12 days' notice of the closure, reports the Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader.
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24-May-2012
As part of their 125th anniversary celebration, the Tasmanian community of Josephite sisters has announced it will merge with the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, which has central governance, the sisters said in a media release.
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30-May-2012
Brisbane archdiocese's new Catholic Psychiatric Pastoral Care has been described as a "world first" in a homily at an Annual Healing Mass last weekend, reports The Catholic Leader.
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28-May-2012
A new partnership between Hennessy Catholic College at Young (pictured) in rural NSW and the Australian Catholic University will allow rural students to undertake university units at the college, reports the Young Witness.
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27-May-2012
A judge in the Spanish city of Palma has ordered a doctor and his clinic to provide financial support for a baby who survived a botched abortion until the child's 25th birthday, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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29-May-2012
Guitarist and keyboardist from the band The Cruel Sea, James Cruickshank, is deepening the mystery of faith through a very unlikely communion, reports The Northern Star. The renowned musician, who has lived in the Byron Bay area for 12 years, has for the past year been the pipe organist at Sunday mass held at St Kevin's Catholic Church, Bangalow.
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31-May-2012
A poster saying "There definitely is a God" was one of the most provocative adverts in the UK, according to a complaints "all-time top ten" received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), reports The Tablet.
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28-May-2012
The Spirit Alive Catholic expo held at Rosemeadow on Saturday shone a light on the work of nearly 100 church-affiliated community organisations, reports the Macarthur Chronicle.
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27-May-2012
Two brothers from Penola Catholic College in Broadmeadows beat the locals at their own game, taking first place at the World Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast last month, reports the Hume Leader.
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Regulars
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31-May-2012
It took a few red wines for Maleny author Jack Wilcox to completely understand his subject matter - the colourful Fr John Dobson, reports The Sunshine Coast Daily. Last weekend Mr Wilcox launched his second book, A Parish Odyssey, the Dobson Years, which recounts the life of Fr Dobson and his impact on the Coast in the past three decades.
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30-May-2012
Patrick Madrid is a renowned US apologist, teaching a field in Christian theology that aims to "defend the faith"’ in a rational and logical way. His Australian tour couldn’t have come at a better time, in light of what he calls “the New Atheism”, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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29-May-2012
A new city centre "Camino," or pilgrim walk, has been launched in Dublin as part of the celebrations surrounding the International Eucharistic Congress set for June 10-17, reports the Catholic News Service.
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28-May-2012
The touching story of American woman Gianna Jessen, born after her mother went to have an abortion, has been made into a movie called October Baby, reports Vatican Insider.
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27-May-2012
More than three decades working in Bangkok's slums did not prepare American Catholic priest Joe Maier for what he saw on Koh Lao when he made his first 30-minute boat ride to visit the Moken people in south-west Thailand, four years ago, reports the Campbelltown Advertiser.
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31-May-2012
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Media Blog has a list of interesting and timely blogs on issues of contemporary relevance, from faith to politics and beyond.
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30-May-2012
Pope Benedict's favourite British/Filipino electropop band, ooberfuse, have used their latest song to expose the racist prejudices of a leading fashion celebrity designer.
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29-May-2012
This describes itself as a web site dedicated to assisting families in making the home the living heart of the church, CathFamily.org.
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28-May-2012
Good Grief is committed to relieving suffering and bringing hope to people affected by change, loss and grief.
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27-May-2012
The April edition of this website for Catholic educators is now available.
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30-May-2012
If you are a fan of B-Budget (and B-mentality) science fiction movies and cherish some of those corny images from the past, the absurd stories, the (very) limited sets and special effects, then this is the film for you.
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29-May-2012
The story of a cad. Based on the story by Guy de Maupassant, and filmed in the 1940s with George Sanders in the title role, this is a film set in La Belle Epoque, Paris in the 1890s.
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28-May-2012
Careless Love is a film about prostitution (as well as other themes). Which raises questions about the meaning of the title and what love really is. The central character of this film is a student, working as an escort to get money for her parents so that they will not lose their home.
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31-May-2012
Jesus' family tomb is one of the more sensational 'discoveries' of recent years, but is it true? Media interest in ancient discoveries is forcing the slow and painstaking discipline of archaeology into a swift and swashbuckling sport according to Egyptologist Dr Karin Sowada on The Spirit of Things on ABC Radio National.
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31-May-2012
I learned how to pray the rosary with the help of a nun. A Zen Buddhist nun. During my final year at seminary I was privileged to take a class in Zen Meditation. We gathered early every morning to sit in complete silence and stillness on the floor of the Social Hall, writes Caitlin Kennell Kim in Busted Halo.
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30-May-2012
Fr Christopher Jamison's excellent book Finding Sanctuary makes the timeless wisdom of St Benedict and the Benedictine way accessible to a modern audience and manages to communicate the riches of Christianity to an audience that knows little about it, writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in The Catholic Herald.
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29-May-2012
On Monday May 21, the Queensland Premier Campbell Newman handed over the land title to the traditional lands at Archer River in Cape York which had been claimed 35 years ago by John Koowarta. But he went one step further. He apologised for the actions and denials of earlier governments, writes Frank Brennan in ABC Online.
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28-May-2012
To say that the Vatican seems in turmoil would be putting things mildly, with two stunners in the arc of 24 hours last week: the announcement that the president of the Vatican Bank has been unceremoniously fired, and then the revelation that a longtime personal servant of Benedict XVI has been identified as the alleged “deep throat” behind the torrid Vatican leaks scandal, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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27-May-2012
With his public stance on gay marriage, and now over rules requiring Catholic institutions to make contraceptives part of the compulsory health care they must provide, President Barack Obama risks driving religiously-minded American voters into the arms of his enemies, writes The Tablet in an editorial.
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27-May-2012
Father Michael Kelly will give a talk on Thursday at St Mary's Church in North Sydney on the future of ministry. The talk, titled The Elephant in the Room - Ministry Past, Present and Future, will be given at Our Lady of the Way Parishes in North Sydney.
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