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13-Sep-2012
Excitement is growing in Beirut as the city prepares to welcome Pope Benedict today. The largely Christian area of east Beirut and the centre of the city is already festooned with flags, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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12-Sep-2012
The Vatican has criticised disrespect toward religions and deplored all violence as unacceptable, following the deaths of a US ambassador and three staff members in Libya and the unrest triggered by an American-made amateur film hostile to Islam, reports the Catholic News Service.
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11-Sep-2012
An Italian study shows that almost half of the online content on the Pope, even in Italy, has a “negative tone” and a “prejudicial impact”, reports Vatican Insider.
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10-Sep-2012
The Vatican has teamed up with Apple to develop new hi-tech methods for communicating the works of Pope Benedict XVI to the world, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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12-Sep-2012
Superlatives rolled freely off the tongues of those attending recent celebrations to mark nearly-completed restoration work at St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton, reports The Catholic Leader.
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09-Sep-2012
The vehicle which French car company Renault has presented to Pope Benedict XVI is not a real Popemobile because it is not armoured. But it is much more than just an “electric” car, reports Vatican Insider.
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13-Sep-2012
A Catholic priest in southern Kerala state who made history in 2009 by donating his kidney to his Hindu parishioner and later founded the Kidney Federation of India, has launched a "human kindness march" to promote awareness of organ donation, reports The Tablet.
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12-Sep-2012
Lawyers representing the United Kingdom in a case of faith-based discrimination at work say that Christians might have to forfeit their jobs if they wish to express their faith in the workplace, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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10-Sep-2012
The Catholic Church in Tasmania has warned Tanzanian authorities about the recent arrival of notorious pedophile Paul Ronald Goldsmith, reports The Mercury.
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10-Sep-2012
Belgian Church officials have struggled to defend Poor Clare nuns sheltering the ex-wife and accomplice of child murderer Marc Dutroux against attacks from families of the victims and repeated protests outside the convent in Malonne, reports The Tablet.
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12-Sep-2012
The Coalition will oppose the Gillard government's proposed charities regulator, and would dismantle it if elected to government, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Sep-2012
An English diocese has cancelled a lecture which was due to be delivered by the Catholic Professor Tina Beattie as a result of her support for legalising same-sex marriage, reports The Catholic Herald.
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13-Sep-2012
The British Deputy Prime Minister has written to the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to distance himself from the claim that he considered the opponents of same-sex marriage to be “bigots”, reports the Catholic Herald.
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12-Sep-2012
Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, has questioned whether the gender imbalance caused by the selective abortion of female foetuses could hinder the rise to affluence of China and India, reports The Age.
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11-Sep-2012
Amid continued pressure from the international community, Iranian Christian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has been released from prison after nearly three years of facing the threat of execution for his religion, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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09-Sep-2012
When Tony Abbott lost the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council presidency in the 1970s, he allegedly approached the woman who beat him and, leaning into her face, punched the wall on each side of her head, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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09-Sep-2012
With Parliamentary debate on marriage resuming today in Canberra, 19 of Australia’s denominational leaders and 267 other church leaders have signed a joint statement calling for the Marriage Act to remain unchanged, reports The International News Magazine.
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09-Sep-2012
A Christian girl in Pakistan detained for three weeks on controversial blasphemy charges has been released on bail, reports Ucanews.
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06-Sep-2012
The US Catholic bishops' public face over sexual abuse matters has said the hierarchy's credibility on fixing the problem is "shredded", according to a Religious News Service report published on NCR.
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12-Sep-2012
NSW Catholic schools say the future of the national curriculum is at risk, as is their ability to build new schools to accommodate growing enrolments, following the cuts to funding announced by the state government, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Sep-2012
The Catholic bishops of NSW "regret the cuts to all NSW schools, both government and non-government, that the NSW government announced (yesterday)," the Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of NSW, Bishop Anthony Fisher, said in a media release, responding to the news that education spending in the state would be slashed by $1.7 billion.
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11-Sep-2012
Queensland's Catholic school teachers may not get promised pay rises and school fees could be hiked after funding for schools was effectively frozen in yesterday's state budget, according to the Queensland Catholic Education Commission Executive Director Mike Byrne, reports Brisbane Times.
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10-Sep-2012
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell faces a backbench revolt this morning over his government's plans to slash $67 million a year in public funding from Catholic and independent schools, reports The Australian. And the head of the NSW private school lobby said the Education Minister told him he planned to cut an extra $150 million over four years, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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10-Sep-2012
Trish Chapman accepted her children would receive less government funding when she decided to send them to Catholic schools, reports The Manly Daily.
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09-Sep-2012
NSW bishops have called on the State Premier, Barry O’Farrell, to block the announcement of what amounts to the biggest threat to NSW Catholic schools in decades, the Catholic Education Commission of NSW said in a media release. But the Premier has vowed to resist the calls, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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06-Sep-2012
The Gonski model for school funding seems to be a "dud or at least in need of a blood transfusion", says the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Pell, in a report by The Catholic Weekly.
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10-Sep-2012
An advocate for asylum seekers killed while riding her bike on a busy Darwin road was on her way to visit detainees when the fatal crash happened. Vikki Riley, 49, was known for her fiery passion for refugees and her strong Catholic belief, reports the NTnews.com.au.
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13-Sep-2012
A treasured holy relic of St Francis Xavier, often called the greatest missionary after St Paul, will arrive in Sydney on Sunday, September 16, for a national pilgrimage, reports the Archdiocese of Sydney in a media release.
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11-Sep-2012
CathNews has taken the silver award in the category of Best Electronic Publication at the Australian Religious Press Association Awards for Excellence, according to a list of winners released by the association.
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09-Sep-2012
An effort to reach out to Catholic families - particularly those that don't regularly attend Mass - has turned into a religious publishing success story with the potential to go national, reports the Canberra Times.
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Regulars
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13-Sep-2012
Discussion of the environment can be a turn off. The topic is vast and complicated, and it raises high passions. In Australian Catholics, Andrew Hamilton asks a simple question: how does Christian faith lead us to see the environment? That may help to handle the complex questions.
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12-Sep-2012
When Samuel Clear speaks to young people at the Ignite Conference in Brisbane later this month about sharing Christ's love with the world, his words will be anything but abstract, reports The Catholic Leader.
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11-Sep-2012
Michael Perusco has no regrets about quitting the corporate world to focus on the vulnerable, marginalised and the homeless, but admits his experience as a chartered accountant was an asset during his years time at Melbourne's Sacred Heart Mission and will be useful in his new role as CEO of St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, reports The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney on C-Mail.
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10-Sep-2012
Thirty Indian scholars and invited guests recently reflected on the state of moral theology in India at a national workshop that addressed a host of issues: corruption, health care, poverty, politics, interreligious dialogue, the Internet, gender and sexuality, and economics, reporta NCR Online.
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09-Sep-2012
Sir John Carrick, the Liberal politician who championed the introduction of government aid to parents of children at Catholic and non-government schools, is one of the most influential and admired men in Australian politics, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney on C-Mail. His biography will be launched tonight by the former Prime Minister John Howard.
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13-Sep-2012
Journeys With Jesus is a weekly webzine for the global church. It carries essays, books, film, poetry and music, with readers in 230 countries.
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12-Sep-2012
A new website is bringing together former residents of St John’s Orphanage, Goulburn, to share stories and photos of their time with the Sisters of Mercy.
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11-Sep-2012
This website describes itself as "Not always happy but happy to be Catholic". It contains everything from book and film reviews to bible studies and prayers, favourite posts and superheroes.
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10-Sep-2012
CIDSE is an international alliance of 16 Catholic development agencies, mainly from Europe and north America. Its website has a rich and diverse array of articles, news and programs about the alliance's work.
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09-Sep-2012
Ethica Accessories is a not-for-profit organisation, founded by the Sisters of St Joseph, which specialises in quality fair trade products from Peru.
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13-Sep-2012
This low-budget, American comedy tells the story of the complex relationships of an emotionally conflicted, grieving young man, Jack (Mark Duplass) with two women, Iris (Emily Blunt) and Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), who are sisters.
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10-Sep-2012
This is a dark romantic-comedy about two people, who come together just before the world ends, and fall in love. The drama begins when a huge Asteroid, called Matilda, finds itself on a path to Earth. All attempts to destroy it have failed, and there are three weeks left for everyone on the planet. The film explores what we might do if time was running out, and we had a choice. Would we do different things?
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11-Sep-2012
According to political theorist and Nazi-sympathiser Carl Schmitt, it is the unique vocation of politics to name the enemy, to give "Evil" a face, and then mobilise national resources against it. This second of a two-part series explores the fundamental drama of ethics – how to discern whether a stranger is in fact an enemy, or a bearer of divine grace, and the way that modern "saints" can expand our moral vision.
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13-Sep-2012
The Pope's trip to Lebanon has become the first by a major Western leader to the Arab world after the attacks in Egypt and Libya, and with the prospect of more violence on the horizon. Big questions loom: Will the pope’s presence inflame extremist Islamic sentiment even further? Or, will the visit act as a firebreak, offering a counter-narrative of Muslim-Christian harmony, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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12-Sep-2012
Tony Abbott makes no secret of his Catholicism, but he's not making a big play about it as leader - it's a lesson the Greens, and their new leader, Christine Milne, can learn, writes John Warhurst in The Canberra Times.
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11-Sep-2012
Last week a Trappist monastery near Jerusalem (pictured) was vandalised. Israeli observers say it was part of the "price tag" campaign -the vow by extremists that a price will be paid every time a settlement is dismantled - not just by those responsible, but also by groups, such as the Christian minority, perceived to support the Palestinians and the ending of settlements. The assaults reflect a little-discussed streak of broader anti-Christian animus in some Israeli circles, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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10-Sep-2012
For a long time Catholic parents, grandparents and other adults in the pews have observed that many parish religious education programs have failed to teach youngsters in public schools the elementary facts of our religion. But memorisation can nurture spiritual growth, writes David Impastato in America.
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09-Sep-2012
Church groups in Australia have vigorously campaigned to protect themselves from particular equal opportunity laws. While there is agreement about a faith community's right to employ practising believers, there is plenty of room for disagreement as to how most prudently and charitably to exercise that right, writes Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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12-Sep-2012
Bishop Anthony Fisher's recent book, Catholic Bioethics for a New Millennium, will be launched at NSW Parliament House in Sydney on September 18.
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09-Sep-2012
Today is the last day for those wanting to attend the annual Mass for all members of consecrated life living and/or working in the Archdiocese of Sydney to indicate they will be coming. The Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, September 22 at St Mary's Cathedral.
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