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13-Dec-2012
A Mass is to be held in Westminster Cathedral in London tomorrow for the repose of the soul of Jacintha Saldanha, the Indian Catholic nurse who was found hanged after receiving a prank call in London, reports The Tablet.
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13-Dec-2012
The credibility of the Pope's new Twitter account will centre on his willingness to address contentious issues facing the Catholic church, a social media expert says, reports AAP on ninemsn.
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12-Dec-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has blessed his new internet flock of one million followers with the first Papal tweet. "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart," reports AFP on The Australian.
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11-Dec-2012
Archbishop Paul Gallagher is to be the new Papal Nuncio to Australia, the Vatican has announced. The British-born archbishop,58, is currently the Nuncio to Guatemala in central America.
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09-Dec-2012
When it comes to ambassadors, no one travels farther than John McCarthy. He comes all the way from Australia, as the second resident ambassador to represent his country before the Holy See. The 65-year-old is a trial lawyer. For years, he and his family, have been actively involved in the Catholic Church, says Rome Reports.
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10-Dec-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has taken delivery of a brand new ‘Popemobile‘ based on the Mercedes-Benz M-Class luxury SUV, reports CarAdvice website. The new Popemobile features a more spacious dome with a new throne, along with larger bulletproof glass panels and illumination in the roof lining to improve onlookers’ view of the Pope.
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09-Dec-2012
Church leaders and the International Red Cross have appealed for more help for victims of Typhoon Bopha which devastated several provinces in the southern Philippines earlier this week, reports Ucanews.
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09-Dec-2012
A man hurled cans of paint at Poland's most sacred icon yesterday in an attack that failed to damage the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora but shocked many in the staunchly Catholic country, Reuters reports on Yahoo7.
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12-Dec-2012
Those who believe the Mayan prophecy that the world will end on December 21 should donate their worldly goods to the Church beforehand, a Chilean bishop has suggested, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Dec-2012
The Bishop of Wagga Wagga is moving to reassure Catholics and non-Catholics the church is making a genuine response to the royal commission into institutionalised child sexual abuse, reports the ABC. The Chair and CEO of the Council to oversee the Church's engagement with the royal commission will be announced this morning in Melbourne,
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13-Dec-2012
Amid the presents, carols and trees, the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) has urged people to remember the story of Jesus Christ's birth and the season's christian foundations this year, reports AAP in The Courier Mail.
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12-Dec-2012
Caritas Australia and its US Caritas counterpart, Catholic Relief Services, have pledged $1.25 million emergency response to help victims of Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, Caritas said in a media statement yesterday.
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12-Dec-2012
Government-sanctioned Church authorities in China have formally announced the revocation of Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai following a two-day standing committee meeting that concluded yesterday, reports Ucanews.
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12-Dec-2012
Two lay people - a former Commissioner of NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Secretary-General of the Australian Medical Association - have been chosen for the two positions to head the council that will oversee the Church's engagement with the Royal Commission into sexual abuse, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) announced yesterday.
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11-Dec-2012
The story published yesterday, titled "Adelaide school abuse inquiry gets royal commission powers", incorrectly described the school at the centre of the inquiry as a Catholic school. The school is not Catholic. CathNews regrets the error.
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11-Dec-2012
Royal commission powers have been granted to an inquiry into why parents were never told of a sex abuse case at an Adelaide school, reports the ABC.
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11-Dec-2012
The Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II has declined an invitation from Egyptian authorities to take part in the “national dialogue” which President Mohammed Mursi called for last Saturday, saying the Church sees itself as a religious institution whose role it is to pray for Egypt. He added that political dialogue is up to parties and public officials, reports Vatican Insider.
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10-Dec-2012
The government-sanctioned Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church of China (BCCCC) has revoked Thaddeus Ma Daqin’s appointment as “Coadjutor Bishop” of Shanghai, according to Church sources, Ucanews reports.
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10-Dec-2012
The Catholic Church and orders including the Christian Brothers are seeking to limit financial accountability to victims of sexual abuse, the Victorian abuse inquiry has heard, the (Ballarat) Courier reports.
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10-Dec-2012
The Indian-born nurse reported to have killed herself in the Royal hoax phone call scandal was was a devout Catholic and a "proper and righteous person" her brother told the Daily Mail newspaper, reports the Herald Sun.
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09-Dec-2012
A former Ballarat Catholic bishop repeatedly and knowingly moved a paedophile priest around his diocese and overseas, where he constantly found new targets, the mother of one victim told the Victorian abuse inquiry on Friday, reports The Age.
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09-Dec-2012
The case against an 80-year-old retired priest who allegedly bit an ear off another elderly clergyman over a parking bay has been adjourned until next month, reports news.com.au.
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09-Dec-2012
The church reform group that represents about a quarter of Ireland’s Catholic priests has issued a statement of support for Roy Bourgeois (pictured), the US Maryknoll priest that the Vatican laicised and dismissed from his order because of his support of women’s ordination, reports NCR Online.
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06-Dec-2012
The parish priest of St Mary's Grafton in northern NSW, Father Rex Hackett, (pictured) has been told it is inappropriate for him to officially take part in the parish's 150th anniversary celebrations this week, The Daily Examiner reports.
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06-Dec-2012
The man who led the Catholic church's review of its response to child abuse says the federal and state governments must today agree on full co-operation on the royal commission because the cover-up of abuse is so widespread, reports The Australian.
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10-Dec-2012
Parents will be asked to go online to sign a petition opposing the NSW government’s plan to cut $1.7 billion from school funding at a Catholic Sydney primary school end-of-year-assembly today, reports the Hills News.
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13-Dec-2012
Philippines lawmakers yesterday passed a controversial measure that will promote artificial contraception as a family planning method despite fierce opposition by Catholic bishops and religious groups, reports Ucanews.
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11-Dec-2012
Catholic bishops in the Philippines yesterday made a desperate, last-ditch appeal to legislators to vote against the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill which is scheduled to go before the House of Representatives tomorrow, reports Ucanews.
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10-Dec-2012
Surrounded by her family and former students, Sister Madeleine, who is believed to be the world's oldest nun, celebrated her 110th birthday in Young, in southern NSW, on Saturday, reports the Esperance Express.
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12-Dec-2012
Cecilia Gimenez, the 80-year-old Spanish painter whose disastrous attempt at restoring a 19th-century Ecce Homo on the walls of her local church spread her name around the globe, has appeared as an artist in her own right, reports The Daily Telegraph (UK) in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Dec-2012
Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-scale, functioning model of Noah's Ark, an undertaking of biblical proportions, AP reports on the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Regulars
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13-Dec-2012
Earlier this year, Kairos Catholic Journal published a story about Klibur Domin, a facility established by Ryder-Cheshire Australia in East Timor to provide long-term care for people who were sick or suffering from physical and mental disabilities. In the following story, Kairos reflects on another Ryder-Cheshire community, Raphael, founded at Dehra Dun in northern India, in 1959, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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12-Dec-2012
As Australia's politicians argue over how to respond to people seeking asylum here, the Catholic Leader reports on the crisis of a Sri Lankan family stuck in the middle, with Dominican Father Pan Jordan close at hand, as he sends most days of his life in his chosen ministry to asylum seekers.
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11-Dec-2012
Laura Meli from Kairos Catholic Journal attended the Gala Evening of Hope in Melbourne in October, where she spoke to the President of East Timor, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, about his country's 10th anniversary of independence and hopes for the future, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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10-Dec-2012
Should the Christmas shopping crowds, costs and commercialism be at odds with how one is trying to observe Advent and the celebration of the birth of Christ, there's a burgeoning world of alternative ways of gift-giving that are vying for attention, reports the Catholic News Service.
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09-Dec-2012
Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo has expressed concern over dampening missionary spirit among India's religious men and women facing modernity and other challenges, reports NCR Online.
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13-Dec-2012
Beyond These Days is a four day experience into the rhythm of Holy Week as journeyed by Jesus. It will offer participants the opportunity to walk gently with Christ as together we pray, sing, reflect, discuss ... and remember the events that shape our story.
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12-Dec-2012
The Society is a cultural organisation, interested in all aspects of Australian Catholic Church history. It was founded in 1940 by a group of Catholic students of Australian history. It is under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney.
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11-Dec-2012
The Catholic Women's League of Australia has launched its own Youtube channel. Recent videos include songs by Fr Robert Galea (pictured), and discussions about nascent life.
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10-Dec-2012
The Washington Post On Faith portal has a broad range of stories, blogs, photos and other articles.
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09-Dec-2012
The Edmund Rice Centre remains vigilant in responding to current events such a asylum seeker policy and the climate change talks in Doha. The website contains an archive of all its releases and other information on these issues.
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13-Dec-2012
This is a very cheerful film. Pitch perfect refers to the musical term of getting the right note just right. Very important for a cappella singing groups. And this is what the film is about: a cappella, singing, competitions. There is a lot of singing all the way through the film, quite entertaining.
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12-Dec-2012
This is a film about baseball and the question posed by Moneyball in 2011, whether talent scouting using computer data is more accurate than relying on the human eye and the instinct for observing the capacities and gifts of players. With Clint Eastwood playing the talent scout, there is no prize for guessing which method is in favour here.
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10-Dec-2012
This is an American romantic comedy, co-written, directed and starring the same person (Julie Delpy), who gave us the 2007 film, 2 Days in Paris. New York is one of the most fêted cities in the world outside Paris, and both Julie Delpy and Woody Allen have directed movies about the two cities.
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13-Dec-2012
Although Ireland has become a secularised country, its deeply pious Catholic history still informs many social values and attitudes, writes Francis Phillips in The Catholic Herald.
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12-Dec-2012
Many Catholic preachers groan when it comes to preaching on Jesus' strong judgment on divorce. But this text is not primarily about sex but about justice in relationships. It calls into question the use of power and law on Nauru and Manus Island as much as in the family home.
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11-Dec-2012
British nueroscientist Lady Susan Greenfield is neither an atheist nor a straightforward believer; but she accepts there are questions which are outside the competence of science to answer. She rejects “scientism” which she describes as “this unshakeable belief, which is as strong as any religious belief, that science is the only approach to understanding the world around you.” She recognises that people can have an experience “that is above and beyond the material,” writes Francis Phillips in The Catholic Herald.
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10-Dec-2012
Famously, the behaviour of bureaucracies is often driven as much by compromise, by an effort to balance competing agenda, as by strict logic. It’s a rule of thumb that certainly applies to the Catholic church, and there’s probably no better recent example than the Vatican’s decision to strip Austrian Fr Helmut Schüller (pictured) of his title as “monsignor,” reports John Allen in NCR Online.
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09-Dec-2012
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It's a counter-intuitive and controversial argument to make at a time like this - one might even say ''brave'', minister - but churches and faith communities are still the strongest centres of public good in modern society, writes Andrew West in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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09-Dec-2012
Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large of The Australian,will give the Occasional Address at Campion College’s Graduation on Wednesday. The Inauguration of the new Campion President, Dr Ryan Messmore, will also take place during the ceremony, which will begin at 10am in the College’s grounds at Old Toongabbie.
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11-Dec-2012
The National Committee for Professional Standards, a joint committee of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia, was established to oversee the development of policies, principles and procedures in responding to Church-related abuse complaints. Sister Angela Ryan, Executive Officer at the National Committee for Professional Standards, was interviewed recently on video about her work with victims of sexual abuse.
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