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Pope Benedict has called on Palestinian factions to end clashes in Gaza
and on Israel to end its armed intervention which is "provoking the
bloody deterioration of the situation".
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As census figures show that the tide may be turning on church
attendance, Australia's bishops are backing a new outreach initiative
based on a growing recognition that religious decline is an important
national issue.
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With the World Health Organisation estimating the annual number of
abortions worldwide at 30-50 million, a US-initiated post-abortion
support program with branches in Australia, Project Rachel, is
extending its operations around the globe.
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Addressing a conference of Latin American bishops in Brazil last week,
Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos has confirmed that Pope
Benedict plans to loosen restrictions on the celebration of the old
Latin Mass.
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Three siblings from the St Martin de Porres parish school at Laverton
in Melbourne's west who had been enrolled by the parish priest in a
local state school will not be turned away, priest Fr Ian Ranson said
over the weekend.
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The NSW St Vincent de Paul Society has emphatically rejected
allegations by the Australian Services Union that the charity is
becoming "corporatised".
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Regulars
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A scene from The Root of All Evil?,
a two-part ABC series on religion shows Richard Dawkins accusing the
evangelical pastor the Reverend Ted Haggard of running worship sessions
in the way the Nazis ran their rallies. To the scientist Dawkins, a
room full of people waving their hands and singing "Praise Jesus" is
evil because it is irrational. But what Dawkins failed to acknowledge
in his encounter with Haggard is that the Nazi program of eugenics and
extermination was not dictated by an unseen god - Rachael Kohn
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Tony Blair is still in office; but the carefully orchestrated
transition to his post-Downing Street incarnation has begun. When his
longed-for departure actually does at last take place, even his most
severe critics (wishing to be seen as fair or balanced) will be saying
that in spite of everything he was a superlative parliamentary
performer, or in spite of everything there was Northern Ireland.
Actually, Northern Ireland typifies something else much more
powerfully: his inspired capacity for taking the credit for what others
have achieved - William Oddie
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