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19-Jul-2012
Hinting at a willingness to continue discussions with the Vatican and recognising the full authority of the pope over the church, the traditionalist Society of St Pius X said it must defend church teaching from error, reports the Catholic News Service.
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18-Jul-2012
As the Vatican continues working to comply with international standards against money laundering and financing terrorism, it still needs to beef up internal inspection and supervisory powers, said a long-awaited report by European finance experts, reports the Catholic News Service.
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17-Jul-2012
The head of the Society of St Pius X says the breakaway traditionalist group is on the verge of giving a definitive response to the Vatican’s offer of re-unification, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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16-Jul-2012
The disgraced Legion of Christ religious order needs to rethink its identity before going forward with its internal reform, the papal envoy in charge of the group's overhaul told priests and lay members in a letter, reports NCR Online.
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15-Jul-2012
Hong Kong cardinal John Tong (pictured) has criticised the Chinese government’s involvement in ordinations, saying they are neither political nor economic matters, after officials reportedly launched an investigation into the Vatican-approved ordination of Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin last week, reports Ucanews.
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19-Jul-2012
Vandals have struck at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, damaging historic headstones, some of which were almost 100 years old, reports The Toowoomba Chronicle.
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15-Jul-2012
One of the oldest Catholic parishes in Melbourne has been restored to its original glory. The St Mary's Williamstown restoration has seen the 162-year-old church undergo a major refit of its interior, as part of a community-led fundraising effort, reports the Hobsons Bay Leader.
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12-Jul-2012
Worshippers attending Mass at Brentwood Cathedral in Essex, England, had a rude experience when a large block of ice fell through the roof during the Eucharistic Prayer, reports the Catholic Herald.
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18-Jul-2012
A former pastor in Philadelphia has been removed after being labelled "unsuitable for ministry," due to "a substantiated violation of The Standards of Ministerial Behavior and Boundaries," reports Vatican Insider.
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17-Jul-2012
From the Bible of a murdered Pakistani government minister to the prayer book of a slain San Salvador archbishop, a Rome church has created a unique memorial to modern-day Christian martyrs, reports Yahoo7 News.
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17-Jul-2012
Priests would be ordered to reveal crimes told to them in private confessions under one proposal before the Victorian inquiry into sex abuse, reports the Courier Mail. But priests say they will resist being forced to reveal secrets of the confessional.
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19-Jul-2012
CatholicCare has welcomed the NSW Government’s overhaul of the foster care system with 38 non-government agencies taking over the former role of the Department of Community Services, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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19-Jul-2012
A $1 million commitment by Sydney’s Catholic clubs to a CatholicCare gambling support program will be a “proactive, rather than reactive” approach to problem gambling, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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16-Jul-2012
Athletes taking part in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have access to free copies of the Bible and Scripture portions, thanks to an initiative by Bible Society, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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16-Jul-2012
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Scotland's most senior Catholic cleric, has urged the Scottish Government to hold a referendum on proposals that would legalise gay marriage, reports The Tablet.
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18-Jul-2012
An Israeli lawmaker has torn up a copy of the New Testament to protest against the dissemination of the Bible, which was sent to members of parliament by a Christian organisation, reports news.com.au.
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18-Jul-2012
The head of Catholic education in Victoria has weighed into this Saturday's Melbourne by-election, warning parents not to vote for the Greens, reports The Age.
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18-Jul-2012
NSW police have established a dedicated unit to investigate alleged child abuse by a former Catholic church priest, dating back to the 1980s, reports The Australian.
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18-Jul-2012
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu says there is a powerful case to continue preserving the secrecy of the Catholic confessional, reports Ninemsn.
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17-Jul-2012
The Bishops of Armidale and Parramatta have appointed Former Federal Court judge Tony Whitlam QC to conduct an independent inquiry of the processes related to the management of Fr F, who has been the subject of media reports in relation to allegations of abuse of children, they said in a joint media statement.
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17-Jul-2012
The fight by Queensland priest Fr Paul Kelly against the state’s notorious ‘gay panic’ laws has drawn huge levels of worldwide support, with over 100,000 people signing an online petition within a few days after he relaunched the protest late last week, reports the Gay News Network.
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16-Jul-2012
The leader of the National Council of Priests says the church must be open to change if it is going to survive, reports the Warrnambool Standard.
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16-Jul-2012
Fifty years ago yesterday “a cold, frosty D day” for schools settled over Goulburn. On July 16, 1962, some 600 of Goulburn’s catholic students were enrolled in local public schools in protest over the state government’s lack of funding.
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15-Jul-2012
In spite of a massive police presence, tens of thousands of Catholics in Vinh Diocese took to the streets yesterday to protest against local government attacks on the Con Cuong parish community, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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15-Jul-2012
At least one million evangelical Christians are taking part in an annual March for Jesus in Sao Paulo, police say, according to an AP report in news.com.au.
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12-Jul-2012
A Queensland Catholic priest has relaunched an online petition against the state’s notorious ‘gay panic’ laws after hearing of recent remarks by the state’s Attorney-General saying any change was unnecessary, reports the Gay News Network.
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16-Jul-2012
Melinda Gates has pledged $560 million as part of a campaign to expand access to contraception for women in some of the poorest countries in the world, reports NCR Online.
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15-Jul-2012
Katie Holmes is believed to have enrolled daughter Suri Cruise into the same New York City school once attended by Lady Gaga, according to the Daily Mail, citing a report in The Los Angeles Times.
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17-Jul-2012
A group of young Catholics has launched an online petition to have Madonna's upcoming concert in Warsaw cancelled as it coincides with the Polish capital's annual World War II commemoration of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the city's Nazi's occupiers, according to an AFP report in Yahoo7 News.
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15-Jul-2012
Fr Richard Leonard SJ (pictured), Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, has "cautiously welcomed" the legislation that will introduce an R18+ classification for computer games from January next year, reports Catholic Communcations.
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Regulars
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19-Jul-2012
Sr Mary Corita Kent's graphic art from the 1960s - with its bold typography, vivid colours, the use of ad logos and slogans - has been recognised with a major exhibition in Washington, reports NCR Online.
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18-Jul-2012
From the moment she was born in the northeast of India in the early 1960s, Sister Mary Nakura’s path towards becoming a nun looked unlikely to say the least, reports Ucanews.
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17-Jul-2012
It was the most disgraceful act – locked up and then brutally and systematically raped over 12 weeks by the Japanese military during World War II. And yet for Jan Ruff O’Herne it was also a time of saving grace, reports The Southern Cross.
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16-Jul-2012
Saving lives has been a common theme throughout the life of Fr Gerard Mulholland. "Saving body and soul," he said of his time as an ambulance officer in Maryborough in northern Queensland in the 1980s-90s and now as parish priest at St Mark's, Inala in Brisbane, reports the Catholic Leader.
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15-Jul-2012
Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah, brought up Muslim, went to a Catholic primary school because her parents believed a Catholic education involved good discipline. Her new novel sees four youngish omen - a Muslim, a Jew, an Indian and a Greek Orthodox, negotiating their careers and the opposite sex as they resist allowing men to define who they are, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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19-Jul-2012
The Progressive Christian, long known as a top-ranked print magazine, has moved from a subscription-based business model to a membership-based model to emphasise the new mission of fostering a stronger progressive Christian community. The hub of TPC's new mission is its website.
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18-Jul-2012
Justice Products was initiated by the Brisbane Catholic Worker community in 1985. More than 25 years later, it continues as a not-for-profit shop, following the principles of Fair Trade and community participation.
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17-Jul-2012
Ss Mary and Joseph’s Cathedral Parish in Armidale, in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in the coming months.
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16-Jul-2012
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk convert to Christianity, is one of seven named by the Vatican today for canonisation after their miracles were recognised by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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15-Jul-2012
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has investigated the state of global Christianity and released a report into its study. The huge study, titled Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population,contains many challenging findings about the state of modern Christianity.
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18-Jul-2012
Yes, this is the comedy where a teddy bear, a little boy’s toy, comes alive after his owner wishes he could. It would be interesting to read the pitch that the producers offered to the money backers – would they have believed that you could make a money-making movie with this premise?
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16-Jul-2012
In this first of a two-part series on Compass, Church of Ireland Bishop Trevor Williams goes undercover to find out what the people in his dwindling patch want from their church.
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19-Jul-2012
The Catholic Education Office is justified in warning Catholic voters in this weekend's Victorian by-election about the dangers of electing a Greens candidate to the state electorate of Melbourne, writes Kevin Donnelly (pictured) in The Australian. In addition, the federal member for Melbourne, Adam Bandt, is wrong to argue that Greens policy is friendly to Catholic and other faith-based schools.
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18-Jul-2012
God has nothing to do and everything to do with the God particle. The whole project of theorising and verification which lies at the heart of the scientific enterprise, as illustrated by the Higgs boson, helps illustrate both the profound intelligibility of the material universe and the equally profound contingency of its existence, writes Neil Ormerod in ABC Online.
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17-Jul-2012
The status of Cardinal George Pell eems to differ according to the issues in which he is involved, writes Gerard Henderson in The Sydney Morning Herald. When Cardinal Pell is involved, however indirectly, in a controversy about a scandal, there is a tendency to depict him as managing director of Australian Catholicism, responsible for all its sins of commission and omission.
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16-Jul-2012
In March, Indian sceptic Sanal Edamuruku (pictured) was asked by Indian TV to investigate a crucifix at the Mumbai Church of Our Lady of Velankanni which had started attracting large crowds of believers because of droplets of water which were dripping from the feet of Jesus. A criminal case has now been filed against him, but this is not the main issue at stake, writes John Dayal in Ucanews.
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15-Jul-2012
If there is a war on religion in the US, as the bishops argue, it's a metaphorical one, waged in legislatures and courthouses. But in a growing number of other countries, there's a decidedly literal war on religion under way. Its victims don't just lose government contracts or debates over insurance mandates; they're threatened, beaten, imprisoned and even murdered, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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17-Jul-2012
This Sunday, Mary Ward International is holding a special breakfast and private viewing session of the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Napoleon - Revolution to Empire. The morning features a talk by Liberal Party figure and Napoleon enthusiast, Michael Kroger.
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15-Jul-2012
Professor Ruth Webber, Director, Quality of Life and Social Justice Research Centre, Australian Catholic University, will speak tomorrow morning on the use of social media to solve personal problems, and its implications for service providers, at a Social Policy Breakfast Briefing in Melbourn.
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19-Jul-2012
In this downloadable podcast, Charles Camosy, author of a new book titled Peter Singer and Christian Ethics, stalks about the philosopher and his surprising points of convergence with Christian ethics.
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