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06-Jun-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has said in a letter to the Queen that she has given the world an “inspiring example” of the role of a Christian monarch, reports the Catholic Herald.
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05-Jun-2012
Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler, has been accused of aggravated theft, a crime that under Vatican laws is punishable with a prison term of up to six years, a Vatican judge said, reports the Catholic News Service.
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04-Jun-2012
When the Archdiocese of Philadelphia hosts the United States' first World Meeting of Families in 2015, it will need to be a significantly smaller affair than the enormous recent gatherings, said the city's archbishop, reports the Catholic News Service.
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03-Jun-2012
The national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has said the assessment that led to a Vatican order to reform the organisation “was based on unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency,” reports The Catholic Herald.
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03-Jun-2012
An Italian newspaper has received confidential Vatican documents from a unknown source who in a message claimed that a papal butler arrested last week for allegedly stealing Holy See files was a "scapegoat" in a plot involving top officials, according to an AAP report on SBS Online.
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05-Jun-2012
An Adelaide city councillor is lobbying for changes to the law to stop phone towers being built within 300m of schools, kindergartens and childcare centres, after the council's approval of a 28-metre phone tower just 150 metres from Christ the King School in suburban Adelaide, reports the Guardian Messenger.
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04-Jun-2012
Bathurst's Catholic cathedral has been listed on the State Heritage Register, the Western Advocate reports.
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31-May-2012
The Australian Catholic University is facing prosecution, following an alleged failure to adhere to a development consent, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. Strathfield Council has moved to pursue the university through the Land and Environment Court, over a controversial redevelopment worth more than $50 million.
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05-Jun-2012
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne allowed a priest charged with child sex offences to be the ''spiritual director'' to another priest accused of child molestation, reports The Age.
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03-Jun-2012
Families from rich countries could sponsor families from poor ones, Pope Benedict XVI suggested at a gathering of around 350,000 people in Milan, reports The Courier Mail.
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06-Jun-2012
Julio Beamonte, the director of Catholic charity Caritas in Madrid, has warned that current poverty levels in Spain are rivalling those experienced in post-World War II Europe, reports Catholic News Agency.
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06-Jun-2012
Girl Scouts of the USA is working with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops "to answer some questions they have," the organisation's chief executive officer said, reports the Catholic News Service in an article published by NCR Online.
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04-Jun-2012
Bishop Bill Morris of Toowoomba wrote a letter to the pope objecting to the way his case had been handled, according to notes written by the pope after a June 2009 meeting between Benedict and Morris. The letter was published in a new book, based on leaked Vatican documents, written by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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04-Jun-2012
The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has sharply criticised Just Love, an award-winning book on sexual ethics by Mercy Sr Margaret Farley (pictured), a prominent Catholic theologian at Yale University, reports NCR Online.
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04-Jun-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has made an attempt to appease remarried Catholic divorcees by calling on parishes to integrate them, but he is a long way from changing the rules, Vatican watchers said Monday, in an AFP report published in The West Australian.
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31-May-2012
He is taking on a post that has been marred with controversy in recent weeks but new Glenmore Park Catholic parish priest Father Robert Riedling has one simple aim in his new job: to listen, reports the Penrith Press.
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06-Jun-2012
St Leonards Church on Sydney's lower north shore says it plans to install six large bronze bells, donated and imported from a church in Wales, despite strong local opposition and a council decision in March which limited the noise levels to 10 decibels, reports the North Shore Times.
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05-Jun-2012
The former head of the Vatican Bank Ettore Gotti Tedeschi has been dealt yet another heavy blow as his house in Piacenza and two offices in Milan were searched by police, reports Vatican Insider.
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06-Jun-2012
The Sydney Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) has welcomed recommendations in a parliamentary inquiry report which has placed Scripture and Ethics on a “level playing field” as regards curriculum transparency, training of teachers and funding, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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04-Jun-2012
In Cairns, he is a maths and science teacher helping to inspire future generations of biologists, doctors and engineers. But in Papua New Guinea, Harry Graepel is the man who is delivering education and opportunity to remote communities in the form of books, desks, chairs, shelving, computers and sporting equipment, reports The Cairns Post.
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03-Jun-2012
At least six parents with children at St Kevin's College in Toorak have received emails claiming to be from the all-boys Catholic school and asking them to donate money into a bank account, reports The Herald Sun.
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05-Jun-2012
The Edmund Rice Centre supports the call of Yolngu Elders for the Stronger Futures Bills to be rejected by the Senate, it said in a media statement.
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03-Jun-2012
Australia could save $2.3 billion a year on hospital costs, avoid 60,000 admissions and cut the number of chronic illness sufferers by up to 500,000 by tackling poverty, a study commissioned by Catholic Health Australia has found, reports The Age.
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03-Jun-2012
A tight-knit Melbourne community has asked the public to pray for a man who returned from overseas to find his two boys and their mother had been killed in a house fire, reports The Age. "His grief is just beyond words," said Sister Mary Margaret of the Catholic Church of St Peter. "If you can just remember him in your prayers, that's all we can ask."
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05-Jun-2012
Mel Gibson's 93-year-old father Hutton (pictured), a devout Catholic, has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for his desired split from Teddy Joye Gibson, reports news.com.au.
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Regulars
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06-Jun-2012
The word archives conjures an image of a dark room with file cabinets, covered in dust, filled with papers that are delicate, containing fading, often illegible writing, all of it overseen by an ancient cleric who tries to keep any hint of modernity out. Maria Mazzenga, archivist for The Catholic University of America in Washington, is out to shatter that image, reports NCR Online.
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05-Jun-2012
Ireland's Catholic Church, host of the upcoming International Eucharistic Congress, has suffered a dramatic loss of credibility in recent years, but also shows signs of renewal after a decade of turbulence, reports the Catholic News Service.
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04-Jun-2012
"Abba Angelo, Abba Angelo“, cry the children when they see the old white jeep with the cracked windscreen. “Abba Angelo”, the grown-ups also shout after the vehicle. Bishop Angelo Moreschi from Gambella himself sits behind the wheel. Everyone in Ethiopia recognises him from afar, reports Aid to the Church in Need.
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03-Jun-2012
Reform of the Curia was part of Benedict's program at the start of his papacy and his failure to achieve that goal has come back to haunt him, reports Reuters in an article published in The West Australian.
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06-Jun-2012
The Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga has a broad range of information to meet the increasing demand from around the world for information about the cause of Dr Sr Mary Glowrey JMJ.
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05-Jun-2012
Sister Elvira Maria de Witt, DCJ, is an opera singer turned nun who has found a new way to win vocations to the religious life - by going online.
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04-Jun-2012
Twenty years ago world leaders came to Rio to plan a better future for our planet. CAFOD invites readers to cheer themselves up about what has been achieved by watching this new animation from Stop Climate Chaos.
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03-Jun-2012
Friar Alessandro Brustenghi , a Franciscan Friar from the original friary founded by Saint Francis of Assisi: the Porziuncola, has been signed up by a major recording company. His Facebook page, Twitter account and website have now gone live.
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06-Jun-2012
This American comedy film is based loosely on the best-selling book of the same name, published in 1984, as a pregnancy guide for expectant mothers. The movie tells the story of five couples, whose lives are turned upside down by the challenges of anticipated parenthood.
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05-Jun-2012
Empire of Silver goes back a century or more into Chinese history. It opens in the provinces with a voiceover narrative from a descendant of the protagonists who reminisces from the 20th century vantage point and elaborates what he sees as the final achievement of his family, a family of bankers.
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04-Jun-2012
A film for festival audiences, a prize winner, including a SIGNIS award in Venice 2010. This is a mood film, running for under 80 minutes. It has elements of Russian melancholy as a loner storyteller travels with his factory boss to perform the funeral rites for the boss’s dead wife.
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03-Jun-2012
The placing of an earth-protecting shield on the Apollo, 1969, moments before blast off, Andy Warhol as a government undercover agent, Mick Jagger an alien come to earth to impregnate earth women? National Enquirer headlines? No, just some of the plot elements in Men in Black 3!
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06-Jun-2012
Old communist comrades ask me why I wear a rosary and attend Sunday Mass. I have compromised a lot, they say. Such questions never bother me, as I am among thousands of Catholics in Kerala who find that Christianity and Communism compliment each other, writes Jeemon Jacob (pictured) in Ucanews.
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05-Jun-2012
I have just been reading Fr Aidan Nichols’s book, Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the Arts. It is an erudite reflection on the need for beauty in liturgy and church architecture, among other things. The phrase “lost in wonder” is meant to suggest the sense of awe a person would feel intuitively when in the presence of the numinous or transcendental, ie in the presence of God, writes Francis Phillips in The Catholic Herald.
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04-Jun-2012
The story of the Pope's butler offers a broader take on the Catholic Church. The reality of Catholic life, like that of other churches, includes the inexcusable, the brutal, the indefensible and the appalling. It also includes the potty, the mediocre, the bombastic, the confused and the sheepish. And as well there are the idealistic, the enduring, the courageous and the constant, writes Andrew Hamilton SJ in Eureka Street.
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03-Jun-2012
A public call from members of the Pontifical Academy for Life for its papally appointed leadership to resign, pivots in part on the question of just how “pro-life” is pro-life enough to faithfully represent Catholic teaching, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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