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04-Feb-2013
Brothers John and Jim Harbaugh, coaches of the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, respectively, have seen their fair share of sibling rivalry – but Sunday's Super Bowl was a contest like no other, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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07-Feb-2013
When the head of the Pontifical Council for Culture said he wanted to listen to what today's young people had to say, he wasn't afraid to hear it belted out at 100 decibels, reports the Catholic News Service on NCR Online.
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06-Feb-2013
In his first public appearance since arriving in Rome, the new Vatican prosecutor for sexual abuse cases in the Catholic church praised the media's role in uncovering the scandal, reports NCR Online.
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05-Feb-2013
A high-ranking Vatican official has voiced support for giving unmarried couples some kind of legal protection even as he reaffirmed the Catholic church's opposition to same-sex marriage, reports The Religion News Service on NCR Online.
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05-Feb-2013
The director of the Vatican press office has rejected claims by Ali Agca, the man responsible for the assassination attempt on Blessed John Paul II, that the plot was ordered by an Iranian Islamic leader, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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03-Feb-2013
Weighing in at 6000 kilograms of glistening bronze, a bell named Mary is the largest - and loudest - of nine new, gargantuan Notre Dame bells blessed on Saturday in the cathedral's nave in Paris, reports the Herald-Sun.
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06-Feb-2013
A Catholic hospital in Colorado, US, has apologised for claiming that twin fetuses who died at the hospital in 2006, along with the mother, should not be considered persons, reports the Religion News Service on NCR Online.
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06-Feb-2013
Many of the victims of Ireland's Catholic-run workhouses have rejected the apology by Prime Minister Enda Kenny, claiming he stopped short of a full apology on behalf of the Irish government and also failed to offer any financial compensation for what survivors have described as inhumane treatment, reports The UK Telegraph in the Canberra Times.
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03-Feb-2013
The retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, will “no longer have any administrative or public duties” because of past failures to protect children from clerical sex abuse, said his successor Archbishop José Gomez, reports The Catholic Herald.
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03-Feb-2013
Inmates from Brasilia's prisons are helping Brazil prepare to welcome the youth who will arrive for this July's World Youth Day, Zenit reports on the Catholic Archidocese of Melbourne website.
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31-Jan-2013
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has described Sydney priest, Father Tyson Doneley, who has been awarded an Order of Australia for his services to Catholic education, as an extraordinary man "once met, never forgotten", reports the Local Southern Courier.
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06-Feb-2013
The Vietnamese Catholic Community raised more than $30,000 for victims of Tasmania’s recent bushfires, taking to almost $2 million the total amount raised by the community for national and international natural disaster appeals since 1985, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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04-Feb-2013
The Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Freiburg, Charles Morerod, has signed a decree forbidding SSPX priests to use chapels in his diocese, reports Vatican Insider.
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03-Feb-2013
Donations to the recent natural disaster apppeals set up by the Red Cross and St Vincent de Paul Society's appeals have slowed, reports Sydney Catholic.
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07-Feb-2013
Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a 65 year-old Catholic priest and human rights activist together with the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), have been nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize by US Members of Congress Chris Smith and Zoe Lofgren, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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06-Feb-2013
A bill allowing same-sex “marriage” passed in the UK's House of Commons will have profoundly negative effects on society, British Catholic bishops have warned, reports the Catholic News Agency. But the legislation has prompted the Greens in Australia to declare they will introduce an updated marriage equality bill into the Australian Senate, according to the Illawarra Mercury.
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05-Feb-2013
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny apologised yesterday to thousands of women who suffered in appalling conditions in church-run laundries, after a report found more than a quarter were sent there by the state, according to an AFP report on Yahoo7.
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04-Feb-2013
Catholic leaders have called on the Indian government to ban two radical Hindu organisations, claiming they are behind a series of attacks on Christians, reports Ucanews.
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31-Jan-2013
The incoming leader of the world's Anglicans says his application to become the Archbishop of Canterbury was "a joke" and he was "just a very, very ordinary Christian", reports AAP on Ninemsn.
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07-Feb-2013
Catholic school funding modelling suggests some of their schools could be worse off under the Federal Government's planned overhaul of the system, reports The Daily Telegraph.
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05-Feb-2013
The daughter of substance abusers, Shantell Bennett entered foster care on her seventh birthday. She did odd jobs before enrolling in a TAFE nursing course. But a longstanding desire to go to university persisted. Then a caseworker told her about the Australian Catholic University's equity pathways, which offer access to people from disadvantaged backgrounds and support through their studies.
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05-Feb-2013
A Catholic school in the US has implemented a "no swearing" rule - but only for girls, reports news.com.au.
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03-Feb-2013
Jovi and Robert van der Kallen are sending their daughter Jacinta to St Benedict's Primary School in Narrabundah, ACT. An estimated 1282 children will start kindergarten this year in Catholic schools across the Canberra-Goulburn archdiocese, reports The Canberra Times.
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07-Feb-2013
The British overnment has dismissed calls to monitor the sex of aborted babies despite evidence that abortion on the grounds of sex is taking place in Britain, reports The Catholic Herald.
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06-Feb-2013
The move to subsidise abortion drugs RU486 and GyMiso is anti-children, anti-women, and anti-family, says Bishop Julian Porteous, auxiliary bishop of Sydney, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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05-Feb-2013
Former federal justice minister, turned Catholic priest, Michael Tate, has slammed a Tasmanian plan for voluntary euthanasia, reports The Mercury.
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04-Feb-2013
Germany's Catholic Church may approve some so-called morning-after pills for rape victims after a leading cardinal unexpectedly announced they did not induce abortions and could be used in Catholic hospitals, according to a Reuters report on Yahoo7.
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04-Feb-2013
A group of friends in the US - including a Catholic priest - have been playing a game of tag for 23 years, the Wall Street Journal reports on Ninemsn.
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03-Feb-2013
Canberra's Catholics may have a long wait for a new leader after the man considered most likely to be appointed the next archbishop was diagnosed with terminal cancer, reports The Canberra Times.
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04-Feb-2013
The largest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world, dedicated to Our Lady of Socavon, was inaugurated last week in a ceremony in the city of Oruro, Bolivia, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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07-Feb-2013
Bangladeshi Catholics who want to remarry face such discrimination that many are opting for civil ceremonies rather than take their vows in church, reports Ucanews.
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06-Feb-2013
In his debut novel, The Shack, author Wm Young developed three human characters to represent the Trinity. The book was a runaway best seller, and now Young is back with his next offering, in which the Trinity reappears as three new characters, reports The Catholic Herald.
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05-Feb-2013
Touched by visiting worshippers at a church which was no more than a stable, a young Indonesian facebook administrator decided to use the internet to raise building funds - with overwhelming success, reports ucanews.
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04-Feb-2013
Dr Carol Rittner, a Mercy sister and distinguished professor of Holocaust and genocide studies, talks to the National Catholic Reporter about her interest in the Holocaust and in the Jewish-Christian relationship.
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03-Feb-2013
One of the challenges of journalism is to create an opening line that will grab the attention of the reader; however, when you are writing about a Catholic priest who became known as the “Bishop with 150 wives”, your work is done for you, says The Record, reporting on the life of Francis Xavier Gsell and his mission on Bathurst Island.
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07-Feb-2013
Religion News Blog (RNB) provides busy religion professionals, academics, reporters and others with a daily round-up of religion news. It has a particular focus on issues dealing with ‘cults,’ ‘sects,’ ‘abusive churches,’ and related issues - including religious persecution and human rights.
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06-Feb-2013
This website has all the details of the new iphone application that makes confession easier. With password protected profiles and a step-by-step guide to the Sacrament, the site invites Catholics to prepare for the Rite of Penance.
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05-Feb-2013
The CathNews Facebook site provides a lively mix of news, features, a thought for the day, and even some cartoons. It also has feedback and links from like-minded readers.
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04-Feb-2013
Asian Catholic news portal Ucanews has launched a spirituality website, offering a raft of new content developed to meet the hunger for this dimension of life. It provides aids to prayer, approaches to Scripture, a focus on saints, especially those from Asia, feature stories that can enrich spiritual life.
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03-Feb-2013
This site provides information and samples for the adult discussion resource, an online resource for young people and resources for families, schools and children. The title of the program is We Wish to See Jesus - 2013 Adult Lent Program. This resource may be used by an individual, a small group, or a large parish gathering.
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07-Feb-2013
The Silver Linings Playbook is the first movie in over 30 years to score Oscar nominations in all four acting categories - including best supporting actress for Australia's own Jackie Weaver.
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06-Feb-2013
This is 40, the latest movie from director Judd Apatow, bears all the hallmarks of his earlier films. This one, too, is a family affair, with Apatow's wife and children taking starring roles.
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05-Feb-2013
The tsunami that hit the Coast of South East Asia on Boxing Day, 2004, is the focus for the Spanish movie The Impossible which has earned a 2012 Oscar nomination for Naomi Watts.
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07-Feb-2013
those familiar with the protocols of the Catholic hierarchy, the news was stunning. The archbishop of Los Angeles publicly rebuked his predecessor, a cardinal, for his failures in dealing with the priest sex abuse scandal. The action by Archbishop Jose Gomez (pictured), relieving Cardinal Roger Mahony of "any administrative or public duties," was remarkable on two levels, writes NCR Online in an editorial.
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06-Feb-2013
The most pressing issue for the Church over the last year has been sexual abuse. Given the Royal Commission and other enquiries, it will surely also dominate this year's news. So it is understandable that there has been no space to celebrate such anniversaries as that of the introduction of the New Mass Translation, says Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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05-Feb-2013
Is it ever right to discriminate? Those opposed to the draft anti-discrimination Bill, about to be tabled in federal Parliament, answer no, writes Kevin Donnelly in The Herald-Sun. Critics are angry that the draft Bill, as currently occurs in Victoria, will allow religious organisations to discriminate in areas such as employment. What the critics ignore is that the Catholic Church and other religious groups are not alone when arguing that not all rights are equal.
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04-Feb-2013
Aloysius Jin Luxian SJ, bishop of Shanghai, has been knocked about and pushed over by life, the Catholic Church in China and at the Vatican, by the Jesuits and the Communist Party on so many occasions you could expect him to be punch drunk by now, says Fr Michael Kelly SJ in ucanews.
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03-Feb-2013
Among a few small groups in the church, religious clothes are returning. They may be returning not as religious signs but as distractions from faith and ministry, argues Dominican Fr. Thomas O'Meara in ncronline.
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03-Feb-2013
Tomorrow night Father Michael Kelly, the founding publisher of Eureka Street and current executive director of UCA News in Bangkok, will explore what’s happening in the Church today, and what we need to do to build a Church for the future. The talk will begin at 7.30pm, February 5, at the Ron Dyer Centre, St Mary’s Church, Miller Street North Sydney.
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04-Feb-2013
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. This trailer for the documentary film, It's A Girl, gives a glimpse of the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters' lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son.
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