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25-Oct-2012
This weekend, CathNews continues our special coverage to mark the 50th anniversary of Vatican II. Tomorrow's edition of CathNews Perspectives will feature a reflection on the impact of the Council by Clare Condon from the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, and other news items. In these special editions, CathNews Perspectives will be delivered on Saturday mornings instead of the regular Friday afternoon timeslot.
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News
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22-Oct-2012
The number of Catholics in Ireland has soared to a record high according to official census figures, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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21-Oct-2012
About 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other traditional garb flooded St Peter's Square yesterday to see Pope Benedict XVI add seven saints to the roster of Catholic role models., reports news.com.au.
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25-Oct-2012
The Synod of Bishops has assured a Chinese prelate that they feel he is “spiritually present” at the current global gathering of Catholic Church leaders, even though he was not allowed to come to Rome, reports Ucanews.
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25-Oct-2012
Paolo Gabriele, the pope's former butler who was found guilty of aggravated theft, is to be transferred from house arrest to a Vatican prison cell to begin his 18-month sentence, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-Oct-2012
Six non-European Roman Catholic prelates will join the Vatican's College of Cardinals in November, Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday, in a move which may affect the election of the future pope, reports AFP on Yahoo7.
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23-Oct-2012
Vatican officials have announced that the Vatican computer technician accused of helping steal confidential papal documents will go on trial in two weeks, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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22-Oct-2012
The Philippines has a new saint after Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday canonised Pedro Calungsod, a 17-year-old catechist from Cebu who was martyred in Guam in 1672, reports Ucanews.
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21-Oct-2012
If the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelisation has seemed to lack a certain "fire and energy," the gathering's sober tone reflects the fact that the Catholic Church is "in the midst of an enormous struggle between good and evil," the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Pell, has told reporters in Rome, reports the Catholic News Service.
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23-Oct-2012
An eleventh-century piece of decorated masonry from an unknown French Monastery has been donated to Sancta Sophia College at the University of Sydney, according to a media release from the College.
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21-Oct-2012
Floods caused by days of non-stop rain in south-west France have forced the closure of most of the Catholic sanctuary of Lourdes and the evacuation of more than 450 pilgrims, reports the ABC.
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24-Oct-2012
A compensation fund is pursuing several claims lodged against the travel agent accused of leaving 32 Catholic pilgrims, from a Rooty Hill church, stranded at Sydney Airport on a botched booking, reports the Local Standard.
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24-Oct-2012
The Legion of Christ drew $2.2 million last year from a $28 million charitable trust that it controls in Rhode Island in the United States, thanks to a wealthy widow who spent her final years as a consecrated woman in Regnum Christi, the order's lay wing, reports NCR Online.
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23-Oct-2012
US Catholics overwhelmingly say the church should emphasise social justice and the poor in its pronouncements on public policy, even if it means focusing less on abortion, according to a new study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, reports NCR Online.
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23-Oct-2012
Mexican police have arrested Jose Raúl Gonzalez Lara, a biological son of the late Legion of Christ founder Fr Marcial Maciel (pictured), on charges of attempted extortion against the Legion, reports NCR Online.
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18-Oct-2012
A leading academic has said the Catholic Church urgently needs to overturn its centuries-old ban on ordaining married men to ease the shortage of priests and better relate to the faithful, reports The Tablet.
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25-Oct-2012
France's new Socialist Government kept strictly to secular protocol by sending a minister instead of the president to attend the canonisation of the French Jesuit Fr Jacques Berthieu in Rome last weekend, reports The Tablet.
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24-Oct-2012
The Archbishop of Perth says the Church's "shameful" history of sexual abuse has resulted in it no longer being "heard or respected" in public debate, reports The West Australian.
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24-Oct-2012
Uruguay's president has signed an abortion bill, making his country only the second in mainly Catholic South America to legalise the procedure, reports ninemsn.
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24-Oct-2012
The leadership of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X has expelled British Bishop Richard Williamson from the society, saying he distanced himself from them and refused "to show due respect and obedience to his lawful superiors," reports the Catholic News Service in a story published by NCR Online.
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23-Oct-2012
The Nauru and Manus Island asylum seeker policy will fail, says the Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace, according to a media release from the group.
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22-Oct-2012
A group of young people shouting, “Where are the priests? We’re going to burn them at the stake,” attacked the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida, Spain, leaving one teacher wounded, reports the Catholic Nerws Agency.
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22-Oct-2012
The Victorian inquiry into the churches' handling of sex abuse heard a claim yesterday that at least one in 20 Catholic priests in Melbourne is a child sex abuser, and probably one in 15, reports The Age.
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22-Oct-2012
Authorities in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, have closed down nine churches and six Buddhist temples in the past week following mounting pressure from local Islamic groups, rights groups say, reports Ucanews.
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21-Oct-2012
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton criticised the Church over its handling of sex abuse claims on Friday at the first day of hearings at the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into abuse within religious and other non-government organisations, The Australian has reported.
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21-Oct-2012
Congolese civic leaders say three Roman Catholic priests have been kidnapped in eastern Congo, reports BigPonds News.
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18-Oct-2012
The Catholic Church has emerged as a potential saviour for Victoria's Acacia College, which is facing a shut down after being crippled by debts, reports the Herald Sun.
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25-Oct-2012
A muck-up day party inviting school-aged girls from a Bendigo Catholic school and a state school to jelly wrestle has been cancelled, reports news.com.au.
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21-Oct-2012
The opening of Northern Ireland's first private abortion clinic in Belfast has drawn hundreds of noisy demonstrators, who hoisted placards with messages such as ''Keep Ireland abortion-free'', reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
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23-Oct-2012
The Director-General of the BBC has defended the broadcaster's response to the sex abuse scandal surrounding the late Catholic entertainer, Jimmy Savile, but accepted it raised questions of trust, reports the BBC.
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22-Oct-2012
A 400-year-old Catholic relic of the right arm of St Francis Xavier is travelling through regional South Australia, reports the ABC.
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Regulars
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25-Oct-2012
Albino Luciani would later become the first pope to have experienced the Council as a bishop and then to put its decrees in action in his dioceses, writes Vatican Insider.
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24-Oct-2012
Archbishop Charles Brown, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, tells the Catholic Herald his faith truly came alive when trekking in Tibet
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23-Oct-2012
Vatican II produced 16 documents over the course of four sessions, it introduced major reforms and stands among the most significant religious events of the 20th Century. To honour this anniversary, Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, chairman of the US Bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, has offered "10 Ways Vatican II Shapes the Church Today", reports the Independent Catrholic News.
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22-Oct-2012
When Belgian Lazarist Father Vincent Lebbe arrived in China in 1901 he had a marked effect on Christianity in the country and in the northeast city of Tianjin in particular, reports Ucanews.
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21-Oct-2012
With six children in four corners of the globe and a job that has taken him to 17 countries this year, “the world becomes smaller”, says Johannes Heereman von Zuydtwyck, executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), reports The Catholic Weekly.
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25-Oct-2012
Caritas Australia's Global Gifts section has a wide range of special gift ideas.
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24-Oct-2012
The National Catholic Education Commission website has a wealth of information, policies and submissions about Catholic education in Australia.
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23-Oct-2012
Founded by Dutch Scheutist priest, Fr Francis Senden, the Asian Social Institute is a Catholic-inspired graduate school in Manila focusing on training future church leaders in the field of social development.
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22-Oct-2012
Campion College is Australia's only liberal arts tertiary college, offering a higher education in the Catholic tradition. Campion began teaching its bachelor of arts in the liberal arts program in 2006.
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21-Oct-2012
eBible is an online Bible website with many versions available and offering the capacity to highlight passages and make annotations. - eBible.com
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25-Oct-2012
An advertisement has been placed in a paper by an unknown person looking for someone to help with time-travelling. The Ad asks for someone to go back in time, but who would be willing to be paid later. The Ad further goes on to say: “Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed”.
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24-Oct-2012
This is a film version of the classic novel of the same name by Emily Bronte. The movie won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. The special thing about this version is that Heathcliffe is black, and the Director of the film, Andrea Arnold, has resisted all temptation to make the movie a frilly piece of period fiction.
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23-Oct-2012
This stylish-looking American crime film is based loosely on the 1974 novel, Cogan’s Trade, by George V. Higgins. It is set in New Orleans and tracks a professional enforcer, Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), who finds himself caught up in a heist that takes place during a mob-protected poker game. The original story was adapted by Australian writer-director, Andrew Dominik, who directed Chopper (2000).
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22-Oct-2012
In the first of a two-part series, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes (pictured) sets out on an epic journey back in time to trace the hidden and often controversial history of women in religion. In Episode 1, she goes back to the beginning of time and visits the world's oldest religious site to find startling evidence that women were present at the birth of organised religion.
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21-Oct-2012
Guessing riddles was a lethal game in the ancient world, but Jesus spoke in riddles and parables to challenge his listeners to think in a new way and shake them out of their complacency, says John Dominic Crossan, author of The Power of Parable, in The Spirit of things on ABC Radio National.
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25-Oct-2012
Interviewed after his recent Nobel Prize, Professor Shinya Yamanaka (pictured) recounted an experience that changed his career - a glimpse down the microscope of one of the embryos stored there. "When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realised there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way," writes Professor David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, in The Tablet.
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24-Oct-2012
The recent story about a fourth-century papyrus, written in Coptic, makes some reference to Jesus having a wife, which raised questions about its theological implications. If Jesus had a wife, the primary basis for obligatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church would be out the window, writes Richard McBrien in NCR Online.
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23-Oct-2012
Catholic discussion of Vatican II is about more than a Council. It is also about the legitimacy of different ways of being Catholic. The question most recently debated — whether the Council represented a change in Catholic teaching and life from what had gone before — invites a judgment on change subsequent to the Council, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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22-Oct-2012
The first time I told my mother that I wanted to go to seminary we were sitting on a porch swing together. I think my mother, in all of her blessed good-intentioned globalism, had hoped my burgeoning interest in spirituality would come to fruition in my becoming some sort of radical Buddhist nun with a shaved head and a penchant for civil disobedience. Instead I was going to seminary. To be a pastor. She was dumbfounded, writes Caitlin Kennell Kim in Busted Halo.
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21-Oct-2012
In the small world of the Vatican, personnel is always policy. Two recent personnel moves, therefore, have fuelled speculation about whether policy shifts are also under way in the fight against sex abuse and the Vatican's relationship with American nuns, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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