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17-Sep-2012
A Vatican magistrate has set a trial date for two men formally indicted in connection with the so-called "VatiLeaks" scandal, according to a Catholic News Service report published by NCR Online.
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20-Sep-2012
The potential power, but also the limits, of an ecumenical proclamation of the Gospel and defence of Gospel values is likely to be a key topic during October's world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelisation, reports the Catholic News Service.
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19-Sep-2012
The Pope wants to call a Consistory to create new cardinals within quite a short space of time; so short in fact that a week or so ago Curia leaders were secretly considering organising a council for November, straight after the end of the Synod on faith, reports Vatican Insider.
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19-Sep-2012
Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), says he sees the polarisation between traditionalists and progressives as the most important challenge faced by the Church, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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17-Sep-2012
Pope Benedict’s visit to Lebanon has given “hope” and “courage” to Christians not only in the land of the cedars but also across the Middle East, many people said at Beirut City Centre Waterfront where he celebrated mass on his last day here, reports Vatican Insider.
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16-Sep-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged the suffering of Christians in the Middle East, reassuring them and urging them to promote peace through religiously inspired service to their societies, reports the Catholic News Service. "Your sufferings are not in vain," the pope told a crowd of at least 350,000 at a sweltering outdoor Mass at Beirut's City Centre Waterfront yesterday. "Remain ever hopeful because of Christ."
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19-Sep-2012
A US professor has caused a sensation in Rome where she spoke about an ancient papyrus fragment that refers to the "wife" of Jesus, but the theory that Christ could have been married is seen with great scepticism in the Vatican and by historians, reports AFP on Yahoo7.
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20-Sep-2012
Australians have been urged to consider the essential role that families play in our society, in the Social Justice statement to be released today by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. "We are called to give special consideration to those families in our midst that face particular difficulties in their efforts to stay together and nurture each other," the statement said.
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16-Sep-2012
The Gillard Government has created a recipe for disaster, warns Father Jim Carty as between 40 to 50 male asylum seekers landed in Nauru this morning, the first arrivals under the Gillard Government's version of off-shore processing, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney newsletter.
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18-Sep-2012
Dr Paul Hine has been appointed the new Principal of St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, NSW, the school announced in a media release yesterday. Dr Hine has over 30 years’ experience in Catholic education. He is Principal of Sacred Heart College Senior in Somerton Park, South Australia.
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20-Sep-2012
Surveys indicate that the Catholic vote in the upcoming US presidential election is “too close to call,” a Catholic research centre at Georgetown University says, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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19-Sep-2012
The Australian parliament has voted overwhelmingly to reject gay marriage, after days of heated debate that saw one senator resign from a key role after linking same-sex unions to bestiality, reports AFP on Yahoo7.
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19-Sep-2012
The riot by an Islamic group in Sydney last week is a “minor hiccup” for Christian-Muslim relations, says Fr Patrick McInerney of the Columban Mission Institute, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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18-Sep-2012
Access to Youtube has been blocked in both Pakistan and Bangladesh as fear spreads in the region since the release of the offensive film about the Prophet Mohammed, reports Ucanews. The film has sparked attacks on churches in Hyderabad, Pakistan, which have left a nun’s driver wounded, reports Vatican Insider.
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18-Sep-2012
Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school, a high school in London, Ontario, Canada is about to open a Muslim prayer room, reports The Inquistr.
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18-Sep-2012
Emmanuel Milingo, the African Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated and reduced to the lay state after his scandalous elopement and marriage to a Korean woman, Maria Sung, has made his latest shock appearance as the Third Patriarch of Africa, reports the Vatican Insider
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18-Sep-2012
The NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell, will allow Coalition MPs a conscience vote on a bill to legalise same-sex marriage, which a cross-party group of MPs will introduce this year, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Sep-2012
Lance Corporal McDonald, who was killed in Afghanistan last month, was remembered at a funeral in Perth yesterday at St Benedict's Catholic Church, in Applecross, followed by a private service at Fremantle Cemetery, reports The Australian.
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17-Sep-2012
Christian leaders ranging from the United States to Pakistan have distanced themselves from an anti-Muslim film that has sparked protests in more than 20 countries, and denounced the Copts who reportedly produced and promoted the film, reports NCR Online and Ucanews.
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16-Sep-2012
The Melbourne Catholic Church's leading investigator into sexual abuse paid $90,000 out of his own pocket to the former principal of a Catholic school whose career was ruined over his stand against a paedophile priest, reports The Age.
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20-Sep-2012
Catholic schools in Queensland are hiring debt collectors as growing numbers of parents struggle to pay fees and others simply refuse, reports The Courier Mail.
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19-Sep-2012
Fresh allegations of sexual and physical abuse at BoysTown Beaudesert in the 1980s and 1990s have “deeply concerned” Br Ambrose Payne, provincial leader of the De La Salle Brothers, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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17-Sep-2012
Police are investigating allegations of inappropriate conduct at a Mount Gambier Catholic school in South Australia, reports the ABC.
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16-Sep-2012
Instead of spending Schoolies Week parties at Byron Bay or on the Gold Coast, a group of girls from Sydney's north shore are preparing for a challenging alternative: either helping out at a kids' holiday camp for the disabled or visiting the Philippines to assist staff at the Davao Mental Hospital, reports news.com.au.
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16-Sep-2012
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has backed down from its plan to explain puberty to children as young as seven, over concerns from Catholic educators that the kids might "freak out", reports the Courier Mail.
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13-Sep-2012
The funding cuts to Catholic schools outlined by the NSW Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, this week appear to cut much deeper than was first thought, the Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of NSW, Bishop Anthony Fisher, said in a media release.
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13-Sep-2012
Notre Dame University's vice-chancellor Celia Hammond is asking her staff in Perth, Broome, Werribee and Sydney to ignore the inbox for two a half hours on Wednesday mornings, reports The Australian.
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18-Sep-2012
A relic of 16th-century Jesuit missionary, St Francis Xavier, has arrived in Australia ahead of a three-month tour of the country that is expected to draw tens of thousands of pilgrims, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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17-Sep-2012
The priest of British singer Charlotte Church has sued News Corporation for hacking into his mobile telephone, reports The Tablet.
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16-Sep-2012
In a rare public moment out of character, actor Stephen Colbert, host of satirical TV show The Colbert Report, told students at the Jesuit Fordham University on Friday that he loves the Roman Catholic Church no matter its human flaws, according to an AP report published by the Boston Herald.
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Regulars
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20-Sep-2012
Scrumptious cookies, artisan butter, and fine butter-based candies: these are some of the products of Hokkaido’s Trappist abbey for male Religious, and they are famous throughout Japan, reports Ucanews.
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19-Sep-2012
One of Tommy Masi’s strongest childhood memories is, “learning to ride a bike, the sense of being on two wheels, being able to balance.” Now aged 49, Tommy’s childhood experience of freedom was rekindled when he discovered motorcycles “by chance” almost 20 years ago, reports Aurora.
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18-Sep-2012
The growing popularity of Mass in the Extraordinary Form may be one of the more surprising cultural developments of recent years, though it has gone little noticed outside the Catholic world. The Catholic Herald talks to pioneering Brazilian traditionalist Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan (pictured with the Pope) about Rome, heresy and healing divisions.
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17-Sep-2012
Fr Joe Rozansky is director of of the Secretariat for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation and he has been in Australia and New Zealand in recent weeks urging action by Franciscans, teachers at Franciscan schools and all who'll listen to his mission, reports The Catholic Leader.
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16-Sep-2012
A Korean priest with a doctorate in mass communications has made a video spoof that has notched up 110,000 hits and demonstrated the digital possibilities open to the Church, reportas Ucanews.
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20-Sep-2012
Canberra Catholics Vote, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, seeks to raise community awareness on some pertinent social justice issues in the forthcoming ACT election, by summarising Catholic social teaching on these issues and and seeking candidates’ responses to them.
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19-Sep-2012
Roots of Peace is a humanitarian organisation dedicated to eradicating landmines worldwide and rehabilitating the land to make it productive once more, by turning "Mines into Vines". The website has a wide range of information about the group's activities.
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18-Sep-2012
The Loreto Sisters have a website aimed at the larger networks of sisters, supporters, colleagues and friends. Galleries and timelines including Mary Ward’s life, the history of Loreto in Australia and The Painted Life all help to paint the picture of Loreto past and present.
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17-Sep-2012
Father Timothy Lehane Barrett, SVD, Secretary General of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, is currently in Australia for Catholic Mission. In this video on Youtube, he explains his work and role.
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16-Sep-2012
The National Catholic Education Commission maintains effective liaison with the Commonwealth Government and other key national education bodies. The website contains its response to the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling and information about the review of its own operations.
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20-Sep-2012
No matter how one feels towards the iconic TV show of the same name, it goes without question that Kath (Jane Turner) and Kim (Gina Riley) and their entourage have created comedy that is eccentric, coarse, satirical, and kitsch. This movie aims to capitalise on the spirit of the original television series, and has all the main characters in it.
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19-Sep-2012
This sub-titled Canadian-French movie is based on the one-character play by Evelyne de la Cheneliere, Bachir Lazhar, and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. The name of Bachir means “the bearer of good news”.
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17-Sep-2012
The Mandorla Religious Art Award, based in Perth, is Australia's richest religious art prize. Chair, Angela McCarthy, discusses the indispensable role of Christianity in Western art, with several artists and viewers.
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16-Sep-2012
Have Christians heard that Jesus went to India as a young adult, or that he is buried in Japan? Alternative narratives and images of Jesus such as these abound in Asia, and while Asian churches have mostly abided by Western theological systems and creeds, a distinctly Asian Christology is emerging.
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20-Sep-2012
David Marr's essay doesn’t really get very far in explaining Abbott’s Catholic values. It is not enough just to say that he is a “profoundly Catholic man” with an “intense faith”. Individuals that fit that description have appeared on all sides of Australian politics, writes John Warhust in The Conversation.
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19-Sep-2012
Spike Milligan is a Catholic hero of mine. In his will, he asked that he be buried in the chuch cemetery in the village in Ireland where his parents came from. On the tombstone he asked that the inscription read: "I told you I was ill," writes Fr Michael Kelly in The Hoopla.
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18-Sep-2012
The open acknowledgment that US vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his policies are worthy of serious consideration by Catholics makes it all but impossible to portray Ryan as a corruptor of Catholic social teaching. More important, they are evidence that American Catholics, including some of the most influential prelates, are increasingly willing to question the old Democratic shibboleths about how best to promote a just society, writes Stephen White in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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17-Sep-2012
Anglican priest Michael Lapsley lost his hands to a letter bomb during his resistance to apartheid in South Africa. His story raises questions of how white South Africans responded to what was being done in their name. Many people working with asylum seekers in Australia today ask a similar question, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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16-Sep-2012
Victoria Hearst, a granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, founder of the Hearst publishing empire, has now attacked the magazine for the corrupting influence of its pornographic content on young girls. Victoria, who became an evangelical Christian in 1995, is frank about her views, writes Francis Phillips in The Catholic Herald.
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18-Sep-2012
Metaphor as a way of releasing the sacred is just one of the topics up for discussion by Australian novelist and poet, David Malouf, this Sunday at Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) Strathfield Campus in Sydney.
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