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03-Jul-2012
An Aboriginal elder who was part of the stolen generations claims she has DNA evidence to prove she is billionaire Gina Rinehart's half-sister, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The former Archbishop of Perth, Barry Hickey, has recognised the relationship.
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01-Jul-2012
Sydney racing and society celebrity Kate Waterhouse has married former footballer Luke Ricketson in a picture perfect wedding ceremony in front of guests at San Guiseppe Catholic Church in Sicily, reports the Herald Sun.
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01-Jul-2012
Less than two-thirds of Brazilians identify as Catholics, marking a record decline in what is considered to be the world's largest Catholic country, according to new figures from the country's latest census, reports AFP on Yahoo7 News.
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03-Jul-2012
Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, has changed the wording of an exhibit on Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II to soften its criticism of the pope over a subject that has long divided Jews and the Vatican, reports the New York Times.
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02-Jul-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller of Regensburg, Germany as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and leader of three other important commissions, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Jul-2012
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane believes that last Friday's pallium ceremony in Rome will provide a significant boost to the work of re-evangelising Australia, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Jul-2012
Palestinians have hailed the granting by UNESCO of world heritage status to the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem as an "historic day for justice," according to an AFP report in The West Australian.
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04-Jul-2012
An American woman who claims a priest sexually abused her while performing exorcisms is suing the Viriginia diocese and pro-life group he formerly headed for $5.3 million, according to a Catholic News Service report published in NCR Online.
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02-Jul-2012
The board of the second-largest membership organisation of US theologians has issued a statement regarding the Vatican's sharp criticism of a prominent member in its ranks, expressing its "deep gratitude" for her work and "urgently" calling for bishops and theologians to better communicate, reports NCR Online.
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02-Jul-2012
The excommunicated Chinese bishop, Paul Lei Shi-yin, has committed “a sacrilege” by ordaining four new priests on Friday in Leshan diocese, southwestern China, the Vatican Archbishop, Savio Hon Tai Fa (pictured), said in Rome the day after the ordination ceremony, reports Vatican Insider.
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01-Jul-2012
Too much accommodation of modernity compromised the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, according to Professor Tracey Rowland, one of the leading experts on the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, reports The Tablet.
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04-Jul-2012
Church agencies have welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to provide fathers with two weeks’ paid paternity leave at the rate of the $606-a-week minimum wage from January next year, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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03-Jul-2012
Victims of clerical sexual abuse have been urged to go directly to the police with any allegations of improper conduct, said Sr Angela Ryan from the Church's National Committee for Professional Standards, on the ABC's World Today.
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03-Jul-2012
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III has emphasised Egyptian Christians' national loyalty, as well as their need for guaranteed human rights, in a letter to Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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03-Jul-2012
The Archdiocese of Sydney is investigating the 1992 meeting which involved two Sydney priests who attended as members of a national panel that removed a fellow priest from public ministry, the Archdiocese said in a statement.
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03-Jul-2012
Kenya's Catholic bishops have called upon the government to intensify its security efforts in the country's north after the July 1 attacks on two churches, including a Catholic cathedral, that left at least 17 people dead and more than 50 people injured, reports the Catholic News Service.
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02-Jul-2012
The ABC's Four Corners program has alleged that the Church failed to pass on admissions of sexual abuse by a priest to police, reports ABC Online.
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02-Jul-2012
The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office encourages local communities to welcome seasonal workers from the Pacific region into their parishes, it said in a media statement. As of yesterday, Australian farmers can now employ workers from the Pacific region and East Timor under the Seasonal Worker Program.
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01-Jul-2012
Gunmen have killed 17 people and wounded dozens in gun and grenade attacks on two churches in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia, reports Sky News.
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04-Jul-2012
Retired Australian Army General Peter Cosgrove has described the Catholic faith as like "a glue binding communities together", the Catholic Leader reports.
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28-Jun-2012
A brother at a Dutch Catholic institute for disabled boys may have been involved in the suspicious deaths of 37 patients in the 1950s, Dutch prosecutors said, reports AP and published in Perth Now.
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04-Jul-2012
A law firm is preparing a class action for about 100 women who say they were forced to give up their babies during the 1960s and 70s, reports The West Australian.
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02-Jul-2012
Repeated incidents of supernatural healings are a primary cause of the massive growth of the Church in a remote corner of India – according to the region’s bishop, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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28-Jun-2012
A new Australian study has found a link between religion and higher body mass index (BMI) readings, reports news.com.au. In particular, Baptist and Catholic men had a higher BMI compared with those with no religious affiliations, and non-Christian women had lower BMIs.
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Regulars
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04-Jul-2012
Some people are simply gifted at sport; they excel at any challenge involving a ball, a stick or a physical contest nearly as soon as they turn their hands to it. One such person is Fr Geoff Hilton, a priest from northern England who will be serving as a chaplain to athletes competing in London Olympics, reports The Catholic Herald.
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03-Jul-2012
Business is a vocation from God and Catholic business schools have been told to help students develop a moral compass along with excellence in business education, reports the Catholic News Service in an article published in NCR Online.
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02-Jul-2012
A Catholic group from Rome was invited to North Korea to deliver 25 tonnes of food aid, in a rare move for the reclusive socialist republic that has no formal ties to the Vatican and to the Catholic Church, reports Ucanews.
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01-Jul-2012
Ed West, from the Catholic Herald, meets Bishop Macram Max Gassis, the prelate punished by the Sudanese state when he exposed its atrocities in Darfur.
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04-Jul-2012
The Catholic Women's League of Australia has launched its own Youtube channel. Recent videos include songs by Fr Robert Galea (pictured), and discussions about nascent life.
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03-Jul-2012
The Washington Post On Faith portal has a broad range of stories, blogs, photos and other articles.
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02-Jul-2012
The Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, was among the two Australians to receive the pallium from the Pope last Friday. Veronica Scarisbrick invited him to Vatican Radio's studios to comment on this special day. The coverage of this, and other items of interest in the Catholic world, are available on the Vatican Radio website.
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01-Jul-2012
The Society is a cultural organisation, interested in all aspects of Australian Catholic Church history. It was founded in 1940 by a group of Catholic students of Australian history. It is under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney.
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04-Jul-2012
Two movies about Snow White have appeared recently. The first, Mirror, Mirror (2012) gave the tale of Snow White a modern, psychological twist. This film, based on the same fairy-tale by the Brothers Grimm, is looser still, not at all whimsical, presents more of a twist, and is much darker.
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03-Jul-2012
Filmed in outback South Australia, Craig Lahiff’s Swerve is a well-made, off-beat thriller/road movie, which, in a nod towards such films as Wake in Fright and Wolf Creek, cleverly conveys a sense of menace lurking beneath the bland surface of rural Australia.
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02-Jul-2012
The ABC is celebrating 80 years of broadcasting, and religion was there at the beginning. Religion on ABC Radio has seen many changes – from church dominance in the 1930s and 40s, to the rise of secularism through the 60s and 70s, to the urgent religious issues brought to a head on September 11th 2001.. This program looks back at eight decades of religion on the air.
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01-Jul-2012
Fighting for human rights and equal opportunity has put Melbourne barrister Moira Rayner in the limelight and she has found solace and support in Christian meditation. From a Presbyterian childhood to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Moira finally found what she was looking for in the St Ignatius Spiritual Exercises, which she now teaches to others.
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04-Jul-2012
With Pope Paul VI and St Benedict, our Church leaders have two excellent examples of how to engage in true dialogue with the people of God and with society, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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03-Jul-2012
“Why is a word God gave us by mistake,” wrote the poet Piotr Rawicz. But when death cleaves, we stand together stunned and someone will surely ask, “Why?” asks Pam Grey SGS in The Good Oil.
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02-Jul-2012
Bishop Pat Power, who officially retired on the weekend, has been one of Canberra's much-loved clerics not least because he has been prepared to take a stand on social issues, writes Graham Downie in The Canberra Times.
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01-Jul-2012
The hiring of American journalist Greg Burke, a former Rome correspondent for both Time magazine and Fox News, as senior communications advisor is probably as close as the Vatican is ever likely to come to admitting that it's in serious PR trouble, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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