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21-Jun-2012
Two Indian nuns died on the spot when a public transport bus overturned last weekend in Ghana West Africa, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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20-Jun-2012
The laity will have to become more involved running parishes due to the declining numbers of priests, the Pope's ambassador to Britain has said, reports The Tablet.
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21-Jun-2012
In a few days the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is to publish the responses to bishops’ proposals for combating sex abuse in the clergy, reports the Vatican Insider.
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20-Jun-2012
Pope Benedict, who has been following the news of the terrorist attacks in Nigeria - particularly against Christians - with deep concern, said he called upon the perpetrators to stop the bloodshed of innocent people immediately, to give up acts of revenge and strive for peace, reports Vatican Insider.
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19-Jun-2012
The Vatican Secretary of State blamed an ongoing scandal over leaked Vatican documents on unethical journalists and a spirit of hostility toward the Catholic Church, reports the Catholic News Service.
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19-Jun-2012
The cause for the beatification of Dora del Hoyo, one of the first collaborators of the founder of Opus Dei, has been announced in Rome on June 18, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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17-Jun-2012
Ireland's four archbishops have been criticised for failing to oversee properly the running of the Irish College in Rome, reports The Tablet.
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17-Jun-2012
The Pope has told Irish Catholics it is a mystery why priests and other clergy abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church in an "appalling" way, reports AAP on SBS Online.
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14-Jun-2012
The Vatican has confirmed that the traditionalist Society of St Pius X is being offered the status of a personal prelature as part of a deal to heal the group’s 24-year rift with the Catholic Church, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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19-Jun-2012
Award-winning Filipino environmental activist Father Edwin Gariguez has led calls for the government and the public to support a new draft mining law he said would lead to “rational change” in the way the Philippines manages its natural resources, reports Ucanews.
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14-Jun-2012
The former Santa Maria Catholic Convent and chapel in Orange, in central NSW, is back to its former glory after renovations to the building were completed, reports the Western Advocate.
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19-Jun-2012
A recent poll in the United Kingdom has found that most gay, lesbian and transgendered people in the country do not support homosexual “marriage,” despite Prime Minister David Cameron’s intent to legalise it, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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19-Jun-2012
''If my joy is in all of you present tonight my sorrow is in those who no longer feel at home in the life of the Catholic Church,'' retiring Auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn Pat Power told worshippers at his farewell Canberra Mass in St Christopher's Cathedral last night, reports the Canberra Times.
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17-Jun-2012
An English council has lifted a ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals for a blog to raise money for a Catholic charity, reports the Catholic Herald.
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21-Jun-2012
One of Syria's most senior Catholic bishops believes his country can still regain the path to peace and reform despite the armed revolt against President Bashar al-Assad now entering its 16th month, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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20-Jun-2012
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane has appealed to the Liberal National Party to uphold a promise made before the recent Queensland state election to repeal the previous Government's civil partnerships legislation, reports the Catholic Leader.
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19-Jun-2012
Independent MP Tony Windsor has reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage after a parliamentary committee on the issue presented its findings on Monday, reports The Armidale Express.
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18-Jun-2012
Catholic bishop Pat Power yesterday urged senators to reject the government's Stronger Futures bill, and a church group petition was presented to parliament against the legislation, which would continue the intervention policies in the Northern Territory for another 10 years, report SBS and the ABC.
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18-Jun-2012
A radical Islamist sect has claimed responsibility for the weekend attacks on three churches in Nigeria's Kaduna state which killed at least 50 people, reports SkyNews.
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18-Jun-2012
The parliamentary inquiry into the handling of complaints of sexual abuse by religious organisations has called for public submissions, reports The Courier.
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18-Jun-2012
Top officials of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said their meeting at the Vatican in mid-June "was difficult because of the differing perspectives" they and the leaders of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith have, reports the Catholic News Service.
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17-Jun-2012
Leading Catholic, Anglican and Greek Orthodox clergy read out or distributed statements at Sunday services yesterday, warning a change to the Marriage Act allowing gay or lesbian couples to wed would be inconsistent with religious teachings, reports Sky News.
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17-Jun-2012
Victims of convicted South Australian pedophile Brian Perkins are seeking compensation from the Catholic Church, reports The Adelaide Advertiser on Adelaide Now.
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17-Jun-2012
Multiple church bombings in Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims have killed at least 21 people, officials and residents said, reports the ABC.
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21-Jun-2012
Seventeen Catholic teenage students and a teacher, from MacKillop Catholic College in Busselton, Western Australia, were rescued from a local river expedition on Wednesday, reports the Augusta Margaret River Mail.
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20-Jun-2012
The High Court has ruled that the national school chaplaincy program is constitutionally invalid because it exceeds the Commonwealth's funding powers. But Attorney General Nicola Roxon has told reporters in Canberra the government would continue funding the program, despite the landmark ruling, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Jun-2012
More than 160 former final year students and eight teachers from Mowbray College in Melbourne's west have been welcomed into the fold of Catholic Regional College in Sydenham, reports the Brimbank Leader.
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20-Jun-2012
A report by Health Workforce Australia which predicts a shortfall of almost 110,000 registered and enrolled nurses by 2025 should be a wake-up call for consumers and government, says Catholic Health Australia, in a story published in The Catholic Weekly.
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18-Jun-2012
The Australian Rugby League Commission is working in conjunction with the Wests Tigers club to ensure that Catholic footballer Robbie Farah's mother is honoured during this week's Women in League round, reports The Australian.
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20-Jun-2012
An American blogger, known for writing about ethics and religion from her perspective as an atheist, has announced that she now believes in God and intends to enter the Catholic Church, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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20-Jun-2012
Anthea Nicholas made headlines last year when, at 50, she became "Australia's oldest mother to conceive naturally". The Catholic Leader spoke to her and husband Peter Byrnes about their son's birth.
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21-Jun-2012
Dr Claire Waller, 26, is a resident doctor at the Royal Darwin Hospital. Recently she spent 2½ months working at the Indigenous health clinic in Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island, the smaller of the two islands that make up the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory. Kairosspoke to Claire about her experiences on the island, in an article published on the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne website.
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19-Jun-2012
“Good” Christian music can be a real alternative to the increasingly sexualised content of mainstream chart-toppers bombarding youth today, says the co-ordinator of internationally acclaimed Catholic group Rexband, which played to a near sell-out crowd in Adelaide last month, reports the Southern Cross.
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18-Jun-2012
St Mary of the Angels Parish in Geelong established a formal partnership with Mary Immaculate Parish in the district of Viqueque, East Timor, in 2009. Three years later, the implications of this ‘twinning’ are being felt in our two countries, writes Chris Hansen from Christ the King School, Geelong, in Kairos, and republished by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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17-Jun-2012
About 19 years ago Brisbane woman Crescentia Anderson, then living in her native Papua New Guinea, had the spark of an idea to start an apostolate to the Divine Mercy, reports The Catholic Leader.
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21-Jun-2012
Jubilee Debt Campaign is demanding an end to the scandal of poor countries paying money to the rich world. It is calling for 100% cancellation of unpayable and unjust poor country debts. The website has full details of its stance, policies and activities, in particular on the current Euro debt crisis.
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20-Jun-2012
For more than nine centuries, Trappist monks and nuns have witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ through a cloistered, communal life wholly ordered to contemplation. The Trappists have developed creative online resources. Here is a video interview with some monks about their life and values.
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19-Jun-2012
The Brigidine Sisters have a Kildare Ministries that will eventually take responsibility for the educational services and community works they currently sponsor. The website has details of the Sisters' activities here and overseas.
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18-Jun-2012
This website by the prominent former public servant John Menadue contains articles and speeches on a wide variety of subjects in Australian public and cultural life - including essays on religion and faith.
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17-Jun-2012
The Green Pilgrimage Network has a vision of pilgrims on all continents and the pilgrim cities that receive them, leaving a positive footprint on the Earth.
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21-Jun-2012
This film is an adaptation of an 1891 novella by Anton Chekhov, The Duel. It is an English version of that Russian classic with Irish and English actors, and it captures brilliantly the futility of life for Chekhov’s characters.
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20-Jun-2012
This movie is an adaptation of the rock musical of the same name that was a big hit on Off-Broadway, New York in 2006. Subsequently, the musical has been staged successfully in Australia.
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19-Jun-2012
Why would a young woman of today give up everything modern life has to offer to live a life of chastity, poverty and obedience as a nun? This two-part documentary explores the stories of two young women who are considering giving up careers, relationships and motherhood to devote themselves entirely to God. The episodes are available in full on the ABC website.
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17-Jun-2012
The Big Bang Theory is now one of the most recognisable scientific brands in the world. What's less well known is that the man who first proposed the theory was not only an accomplished physicist, he was also a Catholic priest. Father Georges Lemaitre wore his clerical collar while teaching physics at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
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21-Jun-2012
The Irish government is going to make it a criminal offence for a priest not to tell the police when a sex offender confesses his crime. I say, bring it on. A few dozen Irish priests in jail will do the Church nothing but good, writes William Oddie in The Catholic Herald.
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20-Jun-2012
Casual observers of Catholic affairs, reading the press in recent weeks, might well conclude that the Vatican is trying to distract attention from its own internal woes - Vatileaks, and all that - by waging a "war on women," and on several fronts, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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19-Jun-2012
Google Translate tells us a lot about the state of the liturgy, writes Father William Grimm in Ucanews.
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18-Jun-2012
In 1927 Max Ehrmann wrote ‘Desiderata’ which became a popular meditation in the 1970s. ‘Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence...’ In the middle of his text he also wrote,’ ...many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism...’, writes Father Gary Walker in the St Columbans Mission Society website.
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17-Jun-2012
Saturday, June 16, was Bloomsday and marked the fictional birthday of Ulysses. The puritanical Catholic hierarchy were offended by James Joyce but his seemingly anti-religious novels would not exist in their final form were it not for his Jesuit education, writes Philip Harvey in Eureka Street.
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18-Jun-2012
Paul Power, CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia, will be the keynote speaker this Sunday at Act Justly, a forum about Refugees and Asylum Speakers, to be held in Ashfield, Sydney.
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