News
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24-Sep-2007
The Vatican's undersecretary for Relations with States, Monsignor
Pietro Parolin, has said countries must not waste time worrying, but
instead do something concrete to ensure a healthy future for the earth.
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24-Sep-2007
The Vatican has been inundated with more than 160,000 requests for
"relics" of the late Pope John Paul II after offering them free on the
Internet.
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24-Sep-2007
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has rejected claims of a
British woman who says that Our Lady has been appearing to her for more
than 20 years.
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24-Sep-2007
Vatican officials have rejected an Italian doctor's claims that Pope
John Paul II refused artificial nutrition in the days before his death.
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24-Sep-2007
Pope Benedict XVI approved the ordination of the new archbishop of Beijing, Joseph Li Shan
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24-Sep-2007
World Youth Day organisers have dismissed claims they tried to relax quarantine measures at Randwick Racecourse.
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24-Sep-2007
In what is described as a world first, the World Youth Day cross and
icon have been taken down a tourist mine at Mt Isa in western
Queensland.
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24-Sep-2007
Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has again warned that World
Youth Day preparations at Randwick racecourse are "quarantine madness".
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24-Sep-2007
Pope Benedict is expected to tell the United Nations that action on climate change is a moral obligation.
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24-Sep-2007
Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot has called for an urgent and decisive response to hold Burma's military junta to account.
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24-Sep-2007
Jesuit Fr Peter Norden has told an anti-WorkChoices union rally in
Melbourne that workers cannot be treated as "just another economic
commodity".
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24-Sep-2007
Canberra Auxiliary Bishop Pat Power says he is concerned by the scale
of gambling at an ACT club that aims to "foster Christian standards".
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24-Sep-2007
The National Catholic Education Commission is in broad agreement with a
plan by Australian states and territories to reinstate teachers as
primary assessors of students.
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24-Sep-2007
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission is looking for a "clear
direction" from Australia's Catholic bishops on whether church school
authorities should continue to be involved with Amnesty International.
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24-Sep-2007
A team of aged care nurses from Lismore diocese is travelling to Port
Moresby to share skills with a Papua New Guinea HIV/AIDS program.
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24-Sep-2007
Catholic Health Australia has called Labor's surprise adoption of the Coalition's Medicare safety net a "sensible decision".
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News - National
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24-Sep-2007
Some Catholic schools in Victoria have introduced informal arrangements
allowing parents discounted school fees in exchange for volunteer work.
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24-Sep-2007
Revelations that Surrey police failed to charge the UK born murderer of
Perth schoolgirl, Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu, after arresting him in
2001, have dismayed Sofia's parents.
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News - International
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24-Sep-2007
An engineer who successfully moved a 65 tonne mosaic of the Risen
Christ at the historic Sacred Heart Church on Sydney's Notre Dame
University campus, has won a Bradfield award for excellence.
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24-Sep-2007
An Oxford educated Episcopalian bishop in the US has sought permission
to resign from his diocese and to be released from his vows in order to
be received into the Catholic Church.
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24-Sep-2007
A British pub that occupies a former convent wants to erect an image of a barebreasted nun.
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24-Sep-2007
Despite a warning from his archbishop, Fr Rainer Maria Schiessler is back serving beer at Munich's Oktoberfest.
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24-Sep-2007
A West Papuan military commander has denied a parish priest's claim that elite soldiers are threatening and following him.
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24-Sep-2007
Burma's Catholic bishops have called for a national prayer campaign as protests led by Buddhist monks in Burma continue to grow.
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24-Sep-2007
The Israeli government has cancelled re-entry visas for priests, nuns
and other church workers who wish to travel in and out of the Israeli
occupied Palestinian territories.
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24-Sep-2007
Lebanese Catholic bishops have "strongly condemned" the assassination
last week of a leading Maronite political leader, Antoine Ghanem.
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24-Sep-2007
An Indian man convicted of murdering an Australian Christian missionary
and his two sons in 1999 has been convicted of killing an Indian
Catholic priest in the same year.
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24-Sep-2007
Former Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube has denied rumours that he
intends to challenge Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in next year's
elections.
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24-Sep-2007
In his first words as the new pastor for the Beijing diocese, Bishop
Joseph Li Shan has thanked the pope and promised to visit every parish
of the Chinese capital.
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Regulars
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24-Sep-2007
Emmaus Productions founder and creative director Monica Brown wonders
if the Church is losing heart. "We've got better systems, but I don't
know that we've got life-giving communities". 25 years after the
release of her first album, she is still on the road, facilitating
in-service days, retreats, renewal days, assemblies, congregational
chapters.
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24-Sep-2007
Legendary Rugby League commentator and Catholic Weekly
columnist Frank Hyde died yesterday at the age of 91. Frank ruled the
airwaves on the church-owned radio station 2SM for 31 years. "I was a
product of the Depression, so everything I have achieved in my life is
a direct result of my faith," he says.
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24-Sep-2007
When sections of copper drain pipes on the outside of St Mary's
Cathedral in Colorado Springs were stolen, the Church became the victim
of a crime that has become widespread. Prices on the copper market have
soared, with thieves stealing copper to sell to scrap metal recyclers.
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24-Sep-2007
People praised me and admired my strength and stamina. It helped me
serve others, especially young people. In 1992, however, I had to admit
to myself I had an addiction to alcohol. In tears and with a broken
heart, I left my ministry in Korea for treatment in the United States.
- Columban Fr Sean Conneely
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24-Sep-2007
Fiona Cairns of Newcastle was born with Spina Bifida. Her family’s
belief in her and the challenges she had growing up have given Fiona
not only a deep understanding of the struggles of others, but a
conviction that help and healing come through people who care. However
she says the path that led her to become a PALMS volunteer Papua New
Guinea is very ordinary.
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24-Sep-2007
I must confess my reluctance to give up the time to read any book of
600 pages. However the magic eventually worked on me as I was caught up
into the chase, the succession of violent encounters as Harry, Hermione
and Ron flee for their lives before the final confrontation of good and
evil. Many young people yearn for a good cause, and Harry Potter fits
their bill as a hero. The series deserves to be widely read. - Cardinal George Pell / Sunday Telegraph
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24-Sep-2007
We feel it most cruelly on Friday nights when it seems everyone in the
whole world is doing something exciting except us. Initially there is
no sense of desperation, we are young. But then we discover it robs us
of the simple capacity to rest.
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24-Sep-2007
On foreign aid, development assistance and trade justice, Peter
Costello says "Economic growth is the real poverty buster". The bishops
say: "True, but economic growth must go hand in hand with eradicating
poverty and ensuring trade justice". - Fr Frank Brennan SJ
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24-Sep-2007
The recent document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
was interpreted by some as a repudiation of the ecumenical advances
made by John XXIII and Vatican II. In fact there's nothing new, and it
upholds Vatican II's 'degrees of communion', which is best understood
using the family analogy. Cousins are not so close to the core family
as daughters and sons, but they belong to the family nonetheless. - Richard P. McBrien
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