News
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03-Sep-2007
Feminists especially are welcoming the Holy See's approval for Canada of a lectionary that incorporates inclusive language.
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03-Sep-2007
Hard of hearing NSW Justice George Palmer has composed a sung mass to
be performed for Pope Benedict at the World Youth Day closing mass at
Randwick next July.
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03-Sep-2007
Pope Benedict yesterday sharpened his weekend Loreto message concerning the need to defend the environment.
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03-Sep-2007
Three American sisters have arrived in Sydney as volunteers to prepare for World Youth Day.
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03-Sep-2007
The Vatican Library has endorsed its own line of burial caskets and urns for sale through a US company called Eternal Image.
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03-Sep-2007
Pope Benedict has said "courageous choices" are required to restore "a
strong alliance between man and earth before it is too late".
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03-Sep-2007
World Youth Day Melbourne has welcomed the Victorian Government's provision of $4 million in funds for next year's events.
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03-Sep-2007
World Youth Day CEO Danny Casey says that he is thrilled with the
number of registrations from prospective pilgrims which already exceeds
184,000 for next year's event.
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03-Sep-2007
The agenda for this week's APEC meeting is "fluff" and fails to address
major climate change issues including changing weather patterns and
water supplies, according to Caritas Australia CEO, Jack de Groot.
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03-Sep-2007
A Notre Dame University expert has said Catholic and state schools in
remote regions of Western Australia are facing a crippling shortage of
teachers.
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03-Sep-2007
Monash sociologist Professor Gary Bouma has said universities must go
beyond secularism and incorporate a better understanding of religion
into their programs.
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03-Sep-2007
The State Library of Victoria has acquired an art deco painting
depicting the flagellation of Christ with a full-blown orgy occurring
below.
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News - National
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03-Sep-2007
Thirty Sydney Catholics gathered last night outside the studios of
Channel Ten to protest against what they called "the filthiest show on
television".
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03-Sep-2007
The diocese of Maitland-Newcastle will today open a new facility for
healing individuals and communities affected by abuse within the
church.
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03-Sep-2007
Melbourne's major Christian churches are opposing moves by the AFL to schedule a match for Good Friday evening.
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03-Sep-2007
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has warned priests to pay attention
to their personal security and that of the buildings in their care
following a recent incident in which armed men broke into a presbytery.
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News - International
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03-Sep-2007
Over 3000 young adults at a festival in Loreto, Italy, stood up on Monday to say they're ready to become priests or religious.
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03-Sep-2007
The European Commission is questioning tax breaks from the Italian
government on Vatican owned property that are alleged to amount to
illegal state aid to the church.
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03-Sep-2007
A distressed local bishop convinced Philippine President Gloria Arroyo
to halt exploration activities by the Australian owned Oxiana mining
company.
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03-Sep-2007
Two so-called "climate refugees" will visit Brisbane next week. They
are from Papua New Guinea's Carteret Islands near Bougainville, where
people are being displaced by rising sea levels.
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03-Sep-2007
An Indian woman whose tumour was found to have been cured by the
intercession of Mother Teresa has accused the Missionaries of Charity
of abandoning her.
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03-Sep-2007
A Chilean prison chaplain has been charged with covering up the deaths
of 28 dissidents killed or "disappeared" during the rule of former
President Augusto Pinochet.
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03-Sep-2007
Bishop-elect Paul Xiao Zejiang will be ordained coadjutor bishop of
Guizhou with the approval of both the Holy See and Chinese government
authorities.
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Religion
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03-Sep-2007
An Italian priest has announced his engagement to a woman with a one year old child.
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03-Sep-2007
Ten years after her death, Mother Teresa will have a cathedral dedicated to her.
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03-Sep-2007
Missionaries of Charity superior Sr Nirmala has said the sisters were surprised by the extent of Mother Teresa's faith crisis.
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Regulars
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03-Sep-2007
It was in God's Providence that Mother Teresa's death was to be
eclipsed by the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is
probably inevitable that the 10th anniversary of their deaths should
repeat the same pattern, but the nun would not want publicity for
herself, only for the action of God, who had used her as the instrument
of his purpose, and for her charism of serving the poorest of the poor.
Diana is an "icon", Mother Teresa is a challenge, a sign of
contradiction to contemporary sensibilities.
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03-Sep-2007
At the end, it was just a few lines in a newspaper - the death of an
88-year-old woman near Beagle Bay, apparently after becoming
disoriented while out for a walk. But a few lines could never do
justice to the commitment of Sister Bernadette O'Connor, a Sister of St
John of God who devoted her life to the care of Aboriginal people in
the Kimberley. Sr Bernadette was the last of the Irish-born Sisters of
St John to come to Australia as a novice or to undertake their
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03-Sep-2007
The Church is not just "another voice" telling people to conserve
energy. Bishop Christopher Toohey says it has the potential to bring
its vast tradition to shed light on a troubled human family, a
dimension that he believes somewhat missing in the debate.
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03-Sep-2007
Before post-war immigration brought to Australia Catholics from many
other nations, within the local Church there was a distinctive emerald
green thread running through the fabric of Australian Catholicism. This
"greening" of the Australian Church was reflected in the numbers of
migrant Irish priests and religious orders, as well as the children of
the Irish who swelled the ranks of local vocations. One Irish family
whose contribution to the life of the Church spans more than 80 years
is the O'Carrigans. The family arrived in Sydney in July 1927 and
recently celebrated the 80th anniversary of their arrival - Dan McAloon
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03-Sep-2007
Logging is big business near Olancho, Honduras and efforts to fight
destructive practices there have been met with violence. Although few
people seem to have noticed it yet, in the past few years a "liberation
ecology" movement, with the church at its spiritual heart, has been
taking shape from Chile to Mexico. Will the Vatican, I wonder,
encourage or stifle it? Latin American Catholics have, after all, taken
on what they saw as forces of injustice before - Marilyn Berlin Snell
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03-Sep-2007
In the light of a number of modern public scandals involving the Church
it is only natural that many sections of the media, as well as even
many of the faithful should question the validity of the Church's
mission and possibly even Her existence. But it is not for us to desert
the Church that God founded, and which the Holy Spirit continues to
inspire, because of the depravity and concupiscence of a number of
sinful men and women. Rather, it is for us, both clergy and laity, to
resolve that any iniquity found in our Church is rooted out, torn up
and cast aside - Andrew Thomas Kania
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03-Sep-2007
After 11 years of obfuscation and denial, Prime Minister Howard has
finally been forced to acknowledge that climate change must be acted
upon and has made it a focus of APEC. Under the banner of economic
cooperation, the 21 countries will come up with a Declaration on
Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development. A copy of the
draft statement was leaked last week. On the surface it sounds hopeful
for those who are looking for leadership in a new sustainable
direction. Cutting through the persuasive language however, it is
business as usual - Anne Lanyon
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03-Sep-2007
A church that recognises its struggle to follow the way of Christ has
no need to defend its reputation. 'Chaste prostitute' was one of many
images the early church had to describe the tension between its high
calling and broken response. - Fr Andrew Hamilton SJ
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03-Sep-2007
It has been interesting to watch the changes in attitude to men and
fathers in Australia over the last seven years. Hollywood is releasing
movies with strong positive fatherhood themes at an incredible rate of
knots. The music world is doing much the same. Our poets and celluloid
storytellers, the high priests of our modern culture, are tending to
the father wound of our broken society. The good news is that the
fatherhood and the men's movement in Australia is going from strength
to strength - Warwick Marsh
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03-Sep-2007
The waters off Christmas Island are remarkable. Beneath the surface,
they are alive with tropical fish and coral. From above, the sea is a
blue that is at the same time translucent and deep. It was in these
waters six years ago that the Tampa sailed and sat, waiting to offload
its human cargo.These are waters in which people seeking Australia's
protection have sailed and swum, and in some instances, died. These are
waters that have been central to Australia's response to asylum seekers
over the past decade or so - David Corlett
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