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13-Jun-2012
The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X met for more than two hours with officials from the Vatican's doctrinal office on Wednesday, as negotiations to end a decades-old split in the Roman Catholic Church draw to an end after almost three years of talks, reports the Catholic News Service.
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11-Jun-2012
The Holy See is scheduled to meet today with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the association that represents 80% of women religious in the US, in a bid to mend bridges, reports Vatican Insider.
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06-Jun-2012
The pollen found in the Shroud of Turin corresponds to that of flowers used for funerals in Asia Minor 2000 years ago, according to a university researcher, reports the Vatican Insider.
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07-Jun-2012
Giving the Saints Michael and John Cathedral State Heritage listing paves the way for the Catholic Diocese of Bathurst to restore the building, says Bishop Michael McKenna, reports the Western Advocate.
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14-Jun-2012
Psychologist and psychotherapist, Maria Beatrice Toro, has drawn attention to a new development in the research that is being carried out in the fascinating field on the border between faith and science, reports Vatican Insider.
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14-Jun-2012
A Catholic mother of four hopes to represent Arizona in the US Congress, after serving the country for over 10 years as an international agent in the CI, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Jun-2012
The number of women joining religious orders in England and Wales has almost tripled in the last three years, according to bishops’ conference figures, reports The Catholic Herald.
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13-Jun-2012
More than 5000 Catholics braved the inclement weather in Sydney last Sunday to participate in the annual Procession of the Blessed Sacrament to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi last Sunday, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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13-Jun-2012
Legislating for same-sex marriage will change the meaning of marriage for everyone and will radically reshape cultural and social structures, according to a pastoral letter in defence of marriage issued by the Sydney Archdiocese this week, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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11-Jun-2012
Mercy Sr Margaret Farley has addressed for the first time publicly the Vatican’s harsh criticism of one of her books, saying it points to “profoundly important” questions facing the Catholic community regarding the roles of truth and power, reports NCR Online.
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11-Jun-2012
The Church in Ireland is on the path to renewal, Church leaders told pilgrims at the opening Mass of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress on Sunday, reports the Catholic News Service in an article published in the Catholic Herald.
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07-Jun-2012
Sales of a book by a prominent American nun theologian have soared after its conclusions about sexual ethics were condemned by the Vatican, reports the Washington Post in an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald.
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07-Jun-2012
The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X said talks with the Vatican demonstrate that "Rome no longer makes total acceptance" of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council a condition for his group's full reconciliation with the church, reports the Catholic News Service.
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14-Jun-2012
An agreement securing the rights of the Catholic Church in Israel is one step closer to being finalised, says the Holy See’s Under-Secretary for Relations with States (pictured) after a meeting between both sides at the Vatican, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Jun-2012
The Vatican is in line to control the new Internet address extension ".catholic" and decide who is allowed to use it, reports the Catholic News Service.
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11-Jun-2012
The Vatican said yesterday that it "truly regrets" the publication of a letter from a psychotherapist detailing the mental health of the Vatican's recently ousted bank chief, as yet another Holy See document leak exposes the unseemly side of the Catholic Church's governance, according to an AP report published in Newsday.
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11-Jun-2012
Bishop Patrick Power, who ruffled the Vatican's feathers by calling for reform, says his decision to retire early is his alone and is unrelated to his differences with Church leaders, reports AP in The Daily Telegraph.
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11-Jun-2012
Emeritus Professor Gabrielle McMullen is among a group of Catholics who have received awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Professor McMullen, now a blogger for CathNews, received an AM for service to tertiary education, particularly through the Australian Catholic University, as an administrator and academic leader, to the discipline of science, and to the community.
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07-Jun-2012
The former co-principal of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr School in remote Northern Territory, Tobias Nganbe, has signed an agreement with the Federal Government that marks the resolution of a long-running human rights claim that established remote indigenous schools were chronically underfunded, reports The Australian.
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13-Jun-2012
After 160 years of teaching students, St Monica's Primary School in Footscray in west Melbourne has been reinvented, thanks to more than $2.25 million of federal government funding, reports the Maribyrnong Weekly.
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07-Jun-2012
St Stanislaus College in Bathurst has announced the appointment of its first female head of college, reports the Western Advocate.
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07-Jun-2012
Bishop Peter Ingham says Catholic schools need to be "missionary" in the way they try to re-engage young people with the Catholic faith, reports The Tablet.
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14-Jun-2012
Patients at the $360 million public hospital planned for Midland will have to go into a day surgery clinic on-site if they want contraception procedures such as vasectomies, reports The West Australian.
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News - National
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12-Jun-2012
A new church era will begin in Australia on Friday with the establishment of the Catholic Church's Ordinariate for former Anglicans, reports The Australian.
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07-Jun-2012
CathNews will take a break on Monday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday weekend. We will be back as usual on Tuesday.
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12-Jun-2012
In an interview given to the Fairfax press, Canberra’s retiring auxiliary Bishop Pat Power has said he is retiring to pursue the pastoral work that first drew him into the priesthood.
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News - International
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12-Jun-2012
After meeting with top officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the head of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the US (LWCR) said she was 'thankful' for the chance to have an open dialogue about a recent Vatican-ordered reform of the organisation, reports Catholic News Service.
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12-Jun-2012
Perth’s retired archbishop Barry Hickey has told pilgrims in Dublin for the International Eucharistic Congress that the Church must not “compromise and face irrelevance” on Christian marriage, reports Catholic News Service.
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12-Jun-2012
The second day of the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin had an ecumenical focus, with the New Evangelisation also prominent in the discussion, reports Catholic World News.
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12-Jun-2012
An important link to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop has been discovered in a Christchurch cemetery, with the location of the place of burial of her brother John, reports NZ Catholic.
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Regulars
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14-Jun-2012
She is one of the foremost experts in child abuse protection, analysing more than 1800 cases of abuse in educational, secular and religious establishments. She was a late entrant into the Catholic Church and today lives in one of the more prayerful cities in the world. Southern Cross speaks with Dr Monica Applewhite, who is visiting Adelaide to share her wisdom.
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13-Jun-2012
When you say you are travelling to Fiji most people imagine swaying palms, infinity pools and cocktails. Three former students of All Saints College Maitland near Newcastle have a different purpose, writes Tracey Edstein in Aurora.
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12-Jun-2012
Every year on Saint Florian’s Day, Adelaide fire-fighter Glenn Benham takes a moment to remember the community-saving effort and sacrifice of the most important fire-fighter in his life, reports The Southern Cross.
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11-Jun-2012
Australian seminarian Jack Green has never had a police escort to lunch, but that’s what happens when you get invited to a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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07-Jun-2012
A 160kg marble holy water font, originally from a Goulburn Catholic orphanage, has become the focus of a new police investigation in Canberra into an old murder mystery, reports The Canberra Times.
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14-Jun-2012
ACMRO has been active in trying to offer alternatives to refugee detention. Its website carries a broad range of documents, articles and other information.
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13-Jun-2012
Good Samaritan Education, a new entity within the Catholic Church with responsibility for the ethos and mission that enlivens Good Samaritan schools in Australia, last week launched its new website.
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12-Jun-2012
MacKillop Family Services recently relaunched its website.The site now has easier navigation, a new suite of drop-down menus and a broader range of events, news and other information.
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11-Jun-2012
Catholic Health Australia recently relaunched its website. The site now has cleaner navigation, videos and a broader range of information than ever.
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07-Jun-2012
American theologian Fr Joseph Komonchak may be best known as co-editor of a multi-volume history of Vatican II. Now retired, he continues to reflect on the Council.
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14-Jun-2012
This is a comedy-drama film about a relationship breakdown between two married people. It analyses the enormous complexity of human closeness. Michelle Williams plays the role of Margot, a free-lance journalist, and Seth Rogen takes the part of her husband, Lou, a writer-chef. They have been married for five years, but they have grown too comfortable with each other.
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13-Jun-2012
This delightful French comedy is about a chef, Jacky Bonnot (Michael Youn), who is extremely talented at what he wants to do, but unable to break into the restaurant scene. He dreams of opening a famous French restaurant, but is unable to realise his ambition.
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12-Jun-2012
This science fiction film is set in the late 21st. century, and tells the story of a spaceship named “Prometheus” sent to discover the remnants of ancient civilisation. The crew on board seek the origins of life on Earth.
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07-Jun-2012
No, not a film about military action nor politics.In fact, there is more love than war in this French drama about a couple and the illness of their baby son. It is based on the experiences of the leading actors, with the wife directing.
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14-Jun-2012
Has there been a loss of the distinctiveness of religious life since Vatican II and if so, what will be the lasting effects on the ministry and mission of women religious in particular? Gemma Simmonds CJ, the editor of a new collection of essays exploring contemporary religious life, grapples with the answer in Thinking Faith.
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13-Jun-2012
Benedict XVI is the first pontiff of the age of addiction – and he knows it. In almost all his speeches to young people he mentions illegal drugs: not just to condemn their use, but also to acknowledge their seductiveness, writes Damian Thompson in The Catholic Herald.
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12-Jun-2012
All's quiet on the Western Australia refugee boat arrivals front lately. But the boats continue to arrive. It's just that the media focus has shifted from the story. For now. Before the next Federal election, expected to be held sometime in 2013, I predict that asylum seekers and boats will again be one of the top media stories in the nation, writes Peter Mitchell in Aurora.
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11-Jun-2012
The same-sex marriage debate is not going away in Australia or the US. It may be delayed in the UK, and it is concluded in Canada. It is not a debate about what restrictions church communities might continue to impose rightly on church weddings, writes Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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07-Jun-2012
On the Catholic side, the Declaration of the Second Vatican Council on the relationship of the church to the non-Christian religions, Nostra Aetate, can be considered the beginning of a systematic dialogue with the Jews, says Cardinal Kurt Koch in a lecture at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas last month, reprinted in The Tablet.
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11-Jun-2012
Catholic Social Services Victoria is pleased to invite members and friends to a workshop on Friday June 15 June, from 9am-12pm, on the impact of family violence at work.
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