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30-Jan-2013
A Mass to pray for Bishop Michael Putney has overflowed Townsville's Sacred Heart Cathedral with more than 1000 people attending. The people gathered to pray for the bishop who has been diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer which has also spread to his liver, reports The Catholic Leader.
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28-Jan-2013
Classical musician Paul Dyer (pictured) and psychiatrist Professor Ralph Martins have received an Order of Australia in the annual Australia Day Honours, announced yesterday by the Governor-General. They lead a distinguished list of Catholics who have been recognised for their work in the community.
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30-Jan-2013
Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Vatican's highest appeals court to consider reviewing church rules on marriage annulments - a statement that may signal a change in tone more than a change in substance, according to a Religion News Service report on NCR Online.
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24-Jan-2013
The head of the Redemptorist Fathers in Rome has said he “deeply regret[s]” the actions of an Irish member of the order (pictured) who accused the Vatican of subjecting him to “frightening procedures reminiscent of the Inquisition”, reports The Catholic Herald.
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29-Jan-2013
An estimated 250 protesters have demonstrated in Dublin at a vigil outside the papal nunciature in support of the restoration to ministry of Irish Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery, reports NCR Online.
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31-Jan-2013
Indian Catholic leaders are questioning the investigation of a Salesian priest accused of molesting a minor girl in Pune, reports Ucanews.
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30-Jan-2013
Christianity liberated women with the Judeo-Christian teaching of radical equality for men and women and the demands of exclusive, lifelong marriage between a man and a woman, the Archbishop of Sydney, George Cardinal Pell said in his homily at the annual Red Mass, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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30-Jan-2013
A formal decree approving St Mary of the Cross MacKillop as second patron of Australia has been received by the president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, reportsThe Catholic Weekly.
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30-Jan-2013
The editor of the American newspaper National Catholic Reporter (pictured, left) has described itself as proudly Catholic in response to a warning an American bishop that the publication undermines the faith, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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30-Jan-2013
A worldwide Catholic network has teamed up with Google to find out what it is Catholics want from the Web, reports Vatican Insider.
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29-Jan-2013
A retired Hunter Valley Catholic priest faced Newcastle Local Court for the first time yesterday after being charged over the alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse, according to an ABC report on Yahoo7.
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29-Jan-2013
The Victorian sex abuse inquiry is likely to recommend at least six state laws be reformed to hold the Catholic Church to account, including removal of the legal ''shield'' it has used to avoid being sued by victims, reports the Age.
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29-Jan-2013
For the past 16 months, a Palestinian priest has celebrated mass every Friday afternoon on the outskirts of Beit Jala, a West Bank village two km from where Jesus was born, to stop the building of a separation wall there, reports Vatican Insider.
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28-Jan-2013
Fiji's government has reversed a decision to expel an Australian priest (pictured) who was accused of breaching his work permit conditions, reports Radio Australia.
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31-Jan-2013
All Pam Betts ever wanted to be was a teacher, and the dream has finally become reality. Thirty years on, the Brisbane southside girl, a proud and passionate old girl of St Elizabeth's Primary School, Ekibin and Our Lady's College, Annerley, has just taken over the reins of the top job at Brisbane Catholic Education, reports The Catholic Leader.
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29-Jan-2013
This week an all-Aboriginal urban primary school, believed to be the first of its kind, will open in inner Sydney. Redfern Jarjum College was the dream of Jesuit community advocate and volunteer of 25 years Ailsa Gillett, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Jan-2013
All Brisbane Catholic Education schools will open as usual today, despite the floods, except for a handful, the Brisbane Catholic Education Office said in a media statement last night.
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28-Jan-2013
The Catholic Church in the UK has warned that senior teachers at Catholic schools could face disciplinary action if they form any "non-chaste" relationship outside marriage, reports The Tablet.
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28-Jan-2013
Cuts to education funding are contributing to an increase in student fees at Catholic schools in Sydney and forcing others in NSW to review their financial support for students to attend World Youth Day celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Jan-2013
Melbourne school Whitefriars Catholic College for Boys has appointed its first non-priest principal in the secondary school's 52-year history, reports the Herald Sun.
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31-Jan-2013
Catholic hospitals fear patients will use new anti-discrimination laws to demand abortions, vasectomies and IVF treatments now banned for religious reasons, reports The Courier Mail.
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31-Jan-2013
The director of the Vatican's museums has warned Italy's cultural heritage is ''vanishing'' after prosecutors in Naples said two more people had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in a ''premeditated, organised and brutal'' sacking of the city's 16th century Girolamini Library, says a report by the Guardian in The Age.
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28-Jan-2013
In the wake of the national outcry over the gang rape and death of a paramedical student and reports of rapes from across the country, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has called for “comprehensive laws and effective measures to ensure the security and safety of women”, reports theCatholic Herald.
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28-Jan-2013
A Catholic hospital in Colorado in the US has argued in court documents that it is not liable for the deaths of twin seven-month-old fetuses because those fetuses are not people under state law, reportsNCR Online.
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31-Jan-2013
A group of Catholic school students from Adelaide swapped the relative comfort and frivolity of end of year schoolies celebrations in Victor Harbor to trek through the jungles of Vietnam and volunteer at an orphanage in Cambodia, reports The Southern Cross.
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30-Jan-2013
Park Cheol-jong had little idea of how he would make a living following his release from prison six years ago. But he read two things in prison which saved him: The Bible, which he read seven times behind bars, and a newspaper article about a Church-run bank which offers micro-credit loans to ex-convicts, writes Stephen Hong in Ucanews.
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29-Jan-2013
How did ordinary human beings set themselves, day after day, against the rampant, satanic evil that German occupation in World War II represented? asks Dr John Besemeres in the Australian Jewish News. One righteous Catholic who did resist and proved himself a hero of the Holocaust, was Jan Karski.
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28-Jan-2013
The recent wave of African migrants is bringing “new blood to the Australian Church”, Sudanese Bishop Santo Loku Pio said in Adelaide during a solidarity visit by a group of African clergy, reports The Southern Cross.
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31-Jan-2013
CIDSE describes itself as "an international alliance of Catholic development agencies working together for global justice".
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30-Jan-2013
Catholic Voices in the UK began with a single aim: to ensure that Catholics and the Church were well represented in the media when Pope Benedict visited in September 2010. Inspired by that visit, it has become much more: a school of a new Christian humanism; and a laboratory of a new kind of apologetics.
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29-Jan-2013
The National Association of Deacons (NAD) represents all of the Catholic deacons of Australia and is associated with the National Council of Priests (NCP). The website includes everything from news items, pastoral and liturgical stories, profiles of memberd and discussion of Canon Law.
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28-Jan-2013
Australian Catholics website covers a wide range of areas of Catholic life, including a dedicated portal called Teacher Resources. Each quarterly edition of the magazine includes a companion publication titled Reflections and Notes, which provides teachers with resources, reflections and activities they might find useful.
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30-Jan-2013
Sacha Gervasi’s film makes entertaining ‘retro’ viewing for filmgoers interested in Hitchcock's working relationship with his wife Alma Reville, and his clever circumvention of Hollywood’s morally censorious Production Code, while working on his 1960 psychological thriller Psycho.
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28-Jan-2013
Iconic New York director, Woody Allen, plays a pivotal role in this French romantic comedy about a Parisienne woman, hapless in love and an Allen devotee.
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31-Jan-2013
Bored with the free-to-air shows on TV tonight? Juliette Hughes has some tips on how to access the best of the domestic and international programs.
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31-Jan-2013
While 26 graves get colder in Newtown, Connecticut, and hearts everywhere continue to feel the pain of them, the sales of automatic weapons get hotter in the US by the day, writes Joan Chittister in NCR Online.
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30-Jan-2013
We might imagine Jack Kerouac, leading light of the Beat Generation and author of the iconic book, On the Road, as a peripatetic trailblazer. But in fact, the self-identified Catholic spent more than half his ife in his hometown, living with his mother, writes James Keane in America.
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29-Jan-2013
The name "Tiffany" suggests glittering jewels and conspicuous consumption. Yet while one part of the Tiffany clan was creating jewelry for the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and other luminaries of the Gilded Age, Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the firm's founder, was building an extensive business in church decoration and church furnishings, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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28-Jan-2013
Is Catholic Social Teaching (CST) starting to capture the political imagination? In Thinking Faith, Dr Anna Rowlands explores the increasing interest of UK politicians in the Church's 'best-kept secret', and discusses initiatives that are already underway to bring politicians and advocates of CST into conversation.
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29-Jan-2013
The Vatican Library is one of the oldest libraries in the world containing more than 80,000 historic books, documents, papyrus texts and other ancient manuscripts? Yet throughout its history only a small number of scholars have been given access to study these precious documents. That is about to change. The Vatican is launching a multi-year project to digitise, store, archive and make the entire collection available online. Here is a film about the library visit.
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