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02-Nov-2007
A Brisbane parish has offered to fly the parents of a convicted
Australian drug mule on death row to Bali so they can be with their
son.
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02-Nov-2007
Italy's Fiat Motor company has given Pope Benedict an unusual and rather unique gift - a tractor.
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02-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has called on all Christians to strive for holiness on the Feast of All Saints.
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01-Nov-2007
The Vatican is unsure “theological dialogue” is possible with Muslims
following a letter signed by 138 Islamic scholars calling for shared
religious values.
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01-Nov-2007
Racially based fears of the Sudanese community are unwarranted and
unhelpful, according to the local parish priest in the Melbourne suburb
that is home to Australia's largest concentration of Sudanese refugees.
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31-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict will meet with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah next Tuesday, a landmark first encounter.
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31-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict has urged the media to seek the truth saying it is
becoming more 'self-absorbed', as he announced the theme for World
Communications Day.
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31-Oct-2007
Up to 4000 Vatican residents face eviction despite the Church recently deploring a shortage of low cost housing.
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30-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict has urged pharmacists to refuse to supply drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia.
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30-Oct-2007
Sr Anne Derwin, director of the Mary MacKillop Place Mission in North
Sydney, has been elected Congregational Leader of the "Brown"
Josephites in Australia.
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29-Oct-2007
A young Tasmanian is trekking around the world on a mission of unity.
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29-Oct-2007
Migrant chaplains and their pastoral associates from across Australia
will gather for their Second National Conference this week, during
which they will hear from both the Immigration Minister and the Shadow
Minister.
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29-Oct-2007
The Vatican Newpaper’s new editor is hoping to promote an exchange of
ideas by including news about Judaism, Islam and other Christian
communities around the world.
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02-Nov-2007
The International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL),
yesterday sent to the Bishops of its 11 member Conferences, its draft
translation of the Roman Missal that was first published in Latin in
2002.
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30-Oct-2007
A group of 15 youths from St Agnes Parish, Port Macquarie NSW, has returned from a ten day World Youth Day exchange to Tonga.
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29-Oct-2007
Catholic Mission is to have its first ever lay National Director with the appointment of Mr Martin Teulan.
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30-Oct-2007
Religion is not only refusing to die out in modern Australian life but
there is "some real danger" of its revival and growth, says the
Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell.
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30-Oct-2007
Columban environmental scientist Fr Charles Rue has warned against
climate change deniers who seek to sow doubt that leads to confusion.
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02-Nov-2007
Hobart Archbishop Adrian Doyle has urged Tasmanian Legislative
Councillors to reject moves to allow the creation of human embryos for
experimentation and destruction because other more ethical and
scientifically proven methods of stem cell research already exist.
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29-Oct-2007
Catholic Social Services Australia’s Executive Director Frank Quinlan,
has called for a new approach to the mutual obligation policy which
underpins current approaches to welfare payments.
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02-Nov-2007
Australian Christians are being urged to vote Labor by the brother of the future leader of the Liberal party – Tim Costello.
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31-Oct-2007
Australian Benedictine Fr Michael Kelly has been elected the 115th
Abbot General of the Sylvestrine Congregation at their recent General
Chapter in Italy.
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29-Oct-2007
Three Church of Ireland parishes have asked to be received into the
Catholic Church - a move which could see more than 400,000 Anglicans
become Catholics.
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31-Oct-2007
A jailed Catholic Vietnamese priest has been denied owning a Bible and other religious objects while behind bars.
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01-Nov-2007
Racially based fears of the Sudanese community are unwarranted and
unhelpful, according to the local parish priest in the Melbourne suburb
that is home to Australia's largest concentration of Sudanese refugees.
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01-Nov-2007
Two Catholic School boys faced court yesterday accused of sexually
assaulting a young teenage girl and filming the attack on a mobile
phone.
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31-Oct-2007
Students and young adults from across Sydney will celebrate Halloween in dramatic style tonight with a production of Saints Alive! at St Mary's Cathedral Crypt.
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31-Oct-2007
Broken Bay Diocese School’s Office has won WorkCover's Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System Award.
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01-Nov-2007
The Archdiocese of Adelaide’s 'VS1' building in the city's Victoria
Square is the first building in the country to be awarded the top six
star green rating.
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01-Nov-2007
Plans have been unveiled for the Cathedral to replace the former
building that was demolished after being extensively damaged by a
tornado that ripped through Bunbury on 16 May 2005.
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30-Oct-2007
The Catholic faithful in Fiji is divided over the appointment of an Archbishop as co chair of the People's Council.
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Regulars
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02-Nov-2007
When Maryanne Hacker attended World Youth Day in Paris in 1997, she
realised that she was not the only young person in the church! While
Paris has its own attractions, the experience of being one of 1.2
million young people gathered in the name of church has had a profound
and lasting impact. Fast forward to 2007: Maryanne is 26, married to
Andrew, and mother of ten month old Dominic.- Aurora
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01-Nov-2007
The Journey of the Cross and Icon (JCI) Team awoke to the unfamiliar
sound of rain on Sunday morning in Maryborough. We were soon on the
road to St Arnaud, gathering for an Ecumenical walk beginning at the
Anglican Church and processing down to the grounds of the Catholic
Church. It was great to see different representatives of a range of
Christian Churches sharing the weight of the Cross together
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31-Oct-2007
Fr Francis and his fellow Cistercians at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit
Monastery, Atlanta, is converting 12 hectares of clear-cut pine
plantation into a conservation burial ground, and perform "green
burials" — interments without embalming and with biodegradable caskets
or urns, or simply a shroud. - Business Week
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30-Oct-2007
Two years ago, Canberra Fr Frank Jones of Canberra was sent to help a
poor parish in Ecuador, where he serves a community of about 60,000
people. Unable to pay the doctor, he was forced to close the medical
centre and use his own background as a registered nurse to respond to
some of the needs. Read more here.
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29-Oct-2007
More than half the recipients of red hats next month are from Europe,
representing the Pope's concern with the ‘old' continent. And most of
the new cardinals are young enough to carry Benedict's torch even if a
conclave is not necessary for 15 years.
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27-Jan-2008
The TV series The Sopranos
is brutally violent, riddled with foul language and often coarsely
sexual. Yet the program is more sharply aware of Catholic morality than
any other successful television series in recent years. - NZ Herald
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02-Nov-2007
Our secular age is schizophrenic, or better, deeply cross-pressured.
People are not conscious of a need for religion, yet they are moved to
know that there are dedicated believers, like Mother Teresa. - James McEvoy. Catholic Theological College, Adelaide
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01-Nov-2007
Jean-Paul Sartre thought that 'hell is other people'. All Saints' Day,
though, reminds us of another truth-that heaven is other people. For
this feast is, among other things, a celebration of heaven. It's not so
much a celebration of heaven as a place, but rather of heaven as the
people we find there. - Robin Koning SJ
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30-Oct-2007
From time to time, there is controversy over the creation, or the
display, or the giving of public subsidies, to art which is considered
to be offensive to religious sensibilities. The textbook example in
recent times has been Piss Christ, a photograph of a crucifix suspended
in a jar of urine, by the American artist Andres Serrano.
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29-Oct-2007
The 1996 assassination of Bishop Pierre Claverie of Algeria as part of
the carnage created by the Islamic Salvation Front, a template for
radical Islamic movements elsewhere. In that context, Claverie - whose
cause for sainthood opened recently - could seem a patron saint for
Catholic hawks in the "clash of civilisations". But the reality is more
complex. - John L. Allen
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