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24-Jan-2013
CathNews will take a break on Monday, the Australia Day holiday, and return on Tuesday, January 29. We wish you, and your families, a happy Australia Day.
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23-Jan-2013
An 80-year-old Catholic priest accused of biting the ear off another priest has had a charge of grievous bodily harm against him downgraded, the ABC reports.
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21-Jan-2013
Hundreds of Ned Kelly's descendants mourned the bushranger at a traditional Catholic mass last week in the regional Victorian town of Wangaratta, 132 years after his hanging, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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24-Jan-2013
Social media need to promote more logic, kindness and Christian witness than bluster, star-status and division, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message to coincide with World Communications Day, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-Jan-2013
With credit card transactions suspended in Vatican City since the new year, three-way talks are due to be held among the stakeholders today to help resolve the situation, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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23-Jan-2013
Father Tony Flannery, the head of Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests, has rejected Rome’s request for him to sign a “mea culpa” declaration. “Freedom of conscience comes first,” he insists, reports Vatican Insider.
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22-Jan-2013
A source at the Vatican says that Archbishop Georg Ganswein – the prefect of the Papal Household and personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI – did not pose for the latest cover of Vanity Fair and that his image was published in the latest Italian edition without his consent, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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21-Jan-2013
The Pope tweeted in Latin for the first time on Sunday - drawing a blank response from many followers who don't speak the dead language, according to a Daily Mail report on news.com.au.
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20-Jan-2013
Vatican City State vendors, including the Vatican Museums and supermarket, have stopped accepting credit- and debit-card payments, citing technical difficulties amid unofficial reports of regulatory concerns by Italian financial authorities, reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-Jan-2013
The Catholic Church has rejected a claim in National Geographic magazine that it has encouraged the use of ivory for religious devotional objects, a Vatican spokesman said following an online editorial, the Catholic Herald reports.
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20-Jan-2013
Some 700 years after being buried under four metres of mud from the rampaging Myros River in Turkey, a Byzantine chapel has been revealed in all its preserved glory, reports the New York Times.
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21-Jan-2013
American cyclist Lance Armstrong's admission to doping is just the tip of the iceberg, since high-stakes commercial interests pressure almost every professional cyclist into the illegal practice, a Vatican official said ahead of his interview with Oprah Winfrey, reports the Catholic News Service.
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23-Jan-2013
More than 100 other British-based charities have launched a campaign to tackle global hunger which takes aim at tax avoidance and land-grabs by multinationals, reports The Tablet.
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22-Jan-2013
Belgium plans to slash the annual stipend of the dowager Queen Fabiola after an uproar from politicians who learned she had set up a private foundation to provide for nieces and nephews and for her favourite Catholic charities after her death, reports the Tablet.
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24-Jan-2013
The body representing Catholic Bishops has defended its right to discriminate against gay people within its education and health institutions, reports the ABC.
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23-Jan-2013
The Victorian Government is being urged to introduce swift legislation to force members of the Catholic Church to report child sexual abuse within its ranks, reports the ABC.
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23-Jan-2013
The Catholic Church says the draft anti-discrimination laws fail by not recognising religious freedom is a fundamental human right, not a special permission to discriminate granted by government. Father Brian Lucas, general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, will tell a Senate hearing that governments are obliged to ensure freedom of religion, reports The Canberra Times.
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22-Jan-2013
The reinstatement of a priest who maintained a sexual relationship with a disabled woman for 14 years was appropriate "after a prolonged investigation", according to a Melbourne priest, reports Yahoo7.
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22-Jan-2013
The European Court of Human Rights has given its judgment in the cases of four Britons who alleged they suffered discrimination as a result of their Christian faith. Only one of the four was successful in their claims announced last week, reports the Catholic Herald.
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21-Jan-2013
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, is to be called before the Victorian child sex abuse inquiry to explain his and the church's role in the scandal, reports The Australian.
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21-Jan-2013
A retired priest from the Hunter region in & NSW has become the second Catholic priest in Australia to be charged with concealing a child sex crime, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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21-Jan-2013
The Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt has a new Patriarch: Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, 57, Bishop of the Eparchy of Minya, according to a Fides report in the Independent Cstholic News.
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20-Jan-2013
An inquiry commissioned by the Catholic Church into the way the Church handled child sex abuse accusations against one of its priests has strongly criticised church procedures, according to an AAP report in The Australian.
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20-Jan-2013
The Catholic Church has said it will do what it can to assist the Royal Commission into child sex abuse abuse, including releasing victims from confidentiality agreements they've signed with the church, the head of the Church's Truth Justice and Healing Council has told the ABC.
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20-Jan-2013
The Holy See has made another reconciliatory gesture toward the Society of St Pius X, sending a letter addressed to all priests in the Fraternity about trying to resume a dialogue, reports the Vatican Insider. News of the letter comes after the Vatican publicly criticised the SSPX for calling Jews enemies of the church in a talk in December, reports the Catholic News Service.
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23-Jan-2013
Over 43,000 students in Catholic schools in the Diocese of Parramatta in western Sydney will pray the Angelus at noon each day to join in the beautiful tradition of prayer as a sign of ‘unity, reverence and dignity’, reports the Diocese's Education website.
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22-Jan-2013
The Bishops Commission for Catholic Education (BCCE) has announced that a restructuring of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) will be in place by July 1, the NCEC said in a media statement.
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20-Jan-2013
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, is to retire by 2015 at the earliest, and will be succeeded by Monsignor Eamon Martin, administrator of the Diocese of Derry and a former teacher, reports The Kerryman.
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22-Jan-2013
"I want to give this cancer a black eye! I don't want to just roll over and say 'right, take me when you are ready' I want to give it a fight," chuckles Michael Putney, the Bishop of Townsville, who has vowed to get a few punches in as he battles stomach cancer, reports the ABC.
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Regulars
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24-Jan-2013
After a freak accident left him stuck on the famed Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps, Andrew Rae thought he would die a cold, slow death on the mountain. With no other options open to him, the teenager - who is not a Christian - could think of only one thing to do, writes Laura Rae, his sister, in Aurora.
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23-Jan-2013
Korea's Sister Lee advocates at least 15 seconds of loud laughter every morning, and says:“I want to help people heal their agony with laughter,” reports Ucanews.
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22-Jan-2013
When a Polish bishop was arrested in late October for drunkenly crashing his Toyota into a street lamp, it was the latest incident to scratch the church's once-pristine image in Europe's most Catholic country, reports NCR Online.
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21-Jan-2013
Big Issue founder John Bird says his harsh early life taught him that many things done for the needy just keep people poor, he writes in The Catholic Herald.
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20-Jan-2013
After 52 years, a theological project of dizzying magnitude has been completed. In September, the final volume of the Japanese translation of the Summa Theologica was published, the last of 45 volumes of the defining work of St Thomas Aquinas, reports Ucanews.
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24-Jan-2013
Justice Products was initiated by the Brisbane Catholic Worker community in 1985. More than 25 years later, it continues as a not-for-profit shop, following the principles of Fair Trade and community participation.
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23-Jan-2013
The Progressive Christian, long known as a top-ranked print magazine, has moved from a subscription-based business model to a membership-based model to emphasise the new mission of fostering a stronger progressive Christian community. The hub of TPC's new mission is its website.
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22-Jan-2013
This site carries information around the Catholic Church of Victoria’s response to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Non-Government Organisations.
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21-Jan-2013
The Good Shepherd Trading Circle is a not-for-profit organisation established by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia in 1995. It actively supports women in need by helping them learn new skills and thereby trade their way out of poverty with both dignity and respect.
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20-Jan-2013
The Tinteán website for people of Australian-Irish descent and interest has been refreshed, but still carries the same range of issues, topics and news and views, based on its original print magazine form.
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24-Jan-2013
Tom Cruise brings novelist Lee Child's trouble-shooting Jack Reacher to the big screen in what looks set to become the next big Hollywood franchise.
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23-Jan-2013
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler star in this comedy that pits parents and grandparents against modern-day grandchildren. The computer-savvy grandchildren use their expertise to confuse and befuddle, but old-fashioned parenting based on warmth and affection wins the day.
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22-Jan-2013
Based on the Man Booker prize-winning book of 2002, The Life of Pi follows the adventures of two survivors of a shipwreck: a young boy named Pi and a Bengal tiger. This fantastical story of an unlikely duo can be read as a religious allegory.
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20-Jan-2013
This film tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, who is invited by Gandalf the Grey to accompany him and 13 dwarves on a dangerous journey across Middle-earth to Erebor to reclaim stolen treasure taken by a dragon, Smaug The Terrible. At Lonely Mountain, well before the events of "The Lord of The Rings", Smaug ravaged the Kingdom of Erebor and the dwarves live in exile.
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21-Jan-2013
E J Dionne is a columnist with The Washington Post and a celebrated Catholic intellectual. In this edition of the ABC's Religion and Ethics Report, he asks whether the US has an alternative history, as a communitarian country that derives its ethos from the biblical story of a City on a Hill.
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24-Jan-2013
In the wake of the death of Delhi's gang rape victim, a radical change in attitudes towards women is needed in India to stop the continuing cycle of violence against them, argues Virigina Saldanha in Ucanews.
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23-Jan-2013
Secular critics argue that religious organisations such as faith-based schools, especially Catholic schools, should not have the right to discriminate in relation to who they enrol and who they employ. Wrong, writes Kevin Donnelly in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of the fundamental rights in any democratic and open society is freedom of religion.
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22-Jan-2013
Bishop Harry Kennedy was not the only one out of his depth in the saga of paedophile priest Fr F; practitioners in law and psychology were found wanting. Other than Kennedy, most of the senior clergy involved appear to have done their job credibly according to the values and practices of the time, writes Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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21-Jan-2013
London's Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, has ordered the end of special Masses for gay Catholics. It follows his criticism of the Government’s gay-marriage plans, matched by antipathy to the Church’s approach from supporters of marriage reform, says Elena Curti in The Tablet.
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20-Jan-2013
From Vatileaks to financial reform, John Allen provides his list of the top five Vatican stories from the past year that failed to get the attention they deserved, in NCR Online.
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