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16-Nov-2007
Organisers of World Youth Day 2008 are working with Aboriginal artist
Richard Campbell, using a selection of his artwork on official WYD08
merchandise.
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15-Nov-2007
Victoria’s racing chaplain Fr Brendan Dillon has said racing people
pray that Cardinal Pell and WYD officials will follow the lead of
Archbishop Philip Wilson, who issued a statement of solidarity with the
racing fraternity.
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15-Nov-2007
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop of Adelaide
Philip Wilson, will take part in an election special being screened by
ABC TV's Compass program on Sunday evening.
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15-Nov-2007
A Commission working to heal the 1000-year-old rift between the
Orthodox and Catholic Church has announced the Pope has primacy over
all bishops - but the lines are still blurred as to what the Holy
Father’s authority entails.
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14-Nov-2007
The Office for the Participation of Women is currently undertaking a
project to produce a book containing prayers, reflections or
meditations from Catholic women throughout Australia.
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14-Nov-2007
A collection of 18 essays published this week counters Tony Abbott's
recent dismissal of social justice as "socialism masquerading as
Justice".
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14-Nov-2007
Prime Minister John Howard said during his visit to a Brisbane Catholic
school yesterday, that the Coalition is “passionately committed to the
"absolute sovereignty of parental choice".
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13-Nov-2007
A Papal visit of the east coast of the United States has been confirmed for next April.
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13-Nov-2007
Welcoming the tax relief for families, the Catholic education sector is
disappointed that yesterday's Coalition announcement did not include
funds for resourcing schools.
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12-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has warned that Lebanon’s survival rests on resolving the
political deadlock ahead of the country’s looming presidential
election.
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12-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has said Catholics should follow the example of St Martin
of Tours, who cut his cloak in two, and gave one half to a poor man.
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Pope Benedict has finalised his second encyclical on the subject of
Christian hope, and it is expected to be released in time for
Christmas.
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The Catholic education sector has welcomed Labor's Information and Communication Technology package for school students.
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15-Nov-2007
The Australian arm of the Catholic Church’s global mission aid agency
has launched a Christmas appeal to provide for medicines and food for
the children of the Ethiopian region of Awassa.
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15-Nov-2007
Fiji’s Archbishop Petereo Mataca may not be allowed to enter Australia
due to his political ties to the country’s interim military-led regime
that led the coup earlier this year.
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16-Nov-2007
World Youth Day organisers have expressed their gratitude for
Government funds that have appeased Randwick trainers and will ensure
World Youth Day takes place as planned.
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12-Nov-2007
An open casting call to find Australia’s Jim Caviezel is taking place
next month, in a bid to find actors to play roles that include Mary and
Pontius Pilate.
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12-Nov-2007
The US Bishops have pleaded with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
consider military action in Iran only after every other attempt to
resolve the situation is exhausted.
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16-Nov-2007
A group of creative young pilgrims in the UK have come up with a novel
way of raising money to help finance their trip to World Youth Day –
Holy Socks.
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14-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict XVI will be attending the 150th anniversary celebrations
of Our Lady of Lourdes, although an exact date of his trip has not been
set.
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15-Nov-2007
A new summer school for teachers to assist students with special needs,
such as behavioural or learning difficulties, has been praised by the
Catholic Education Office, Melbourne.
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14-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has approved the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Hilton
Deakin, who reached the designated retirement age of 75 yesterday.
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14-Nov-2007
Archbishop Denis Hart was part of a Catholic group that met Israel's
Chief Rabbi, Yona Metzger, during his recent visit to Melbourne.
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13-Nov-2007
A Catholic cemetery at Kilmore, north of Melbourne, has been hit by
vandals, who have stolen 42 brass plaques from the graves of Marist
Brothers who had taught in the town.
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12-Nov-2007
On Friday, the Victorian Josephite Province opened a museum to
commemorate Blessed Mary MacKillop, just a few blocks from her
birthplace in Fitzroy.
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12-Nov-2007
Melbourne's CEO will spent about $22.5 million over the next five years
to improve the level of mathematics teaching in its schools.
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16-Nov-2007
Parishes and church agencies in the Sydney Archdiocese are set to begin
the process of implementing the Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan, in 2008.
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13-Nov-2007
The Sisters of St Joseph are leaving Australia's most remote spirituality centre after 21 years, handing over to lay management.
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13-Nov-2007
A Centacare program helping the long-term unemployed return to work,
has been named the Australian Adult Learning Program of the Year.
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13-Nov-2007
A Catholic shrine in China has been saved from destruction, but police continue to refuse entry to pilgrims who are not locals.
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Regulars
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16-Nov-2007
Alexander Zorin, eminent Russian intellectual and poet, and a member of
the Russian Orthodox Church, reflects on the teachings of Opus Dei
founder St Josemaría Escrivá. During the Soviet era, he discovered a
typewritten Russian translation of The Way. - Opus Dei
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15-Nov-2007
There is no doubt that Caroline Chisholm is one of Australia’s most
significant pioneers. What is less well known is the explicitly
Christian motivation for her work. Chisholm felt that she had been
chosen and gifted by God for the specific purpose of caring for
immigrants. - Kairos
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14-Nov-2007
Fr Pierre Truong Van Phuc SJ, 38, says evangelisation is not a matter
of teaching theology, but living the joys and sufferings of a people
plagued by poverty, sickness and illiteracy. After reaching Dili in May
2006, he spent a month caring for people made homeless by widespread
riots and clashes between armed street gangs. - UCA News
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13-Nov-2007
"The foot of the cross will be our rallying point," was at the heart of
the vision of Marie Madeleine Victoire de Bengy de Bonnault d'Houet
when she founded the Society of the Sisters Faithful Companions of
Jesus in 1820. It remains at the heart of the Sisters' ministry and
service 125 years after coming to Australia. - Catholic Religious Australia
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12-Nov-2007
The Gospel of Mark relates how, as Jesus laid his hands upon the ears
of a man who was deaf and mute, he looked to heaven and spoke the
Aramaic word "Ephpheta" meaning "Be Open". Ephpheta, the Catholic
Centre for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People at Flemington in Sydney, is
best known for co-ordinating Masses for the deaf. - Catholic Outlook
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16-Nov-2007
Some religious schools have withdrawn from Amnesty because it has
become pro-choice on abortion. But members of organisations such as
Amnesty, which take a full spectrum approach to human rights, do not
generally agree to every item in the organisations' policy statements.
- Fr Frank Brennan SJ
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15-Nov-2007
The Christian vote can't be bought, not even with tax-free fees for
parents of children at religious schools. The early Christians were
adamant that Caesar — the political ruler of the moment — was not Lord. - Kylie Crabbe
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14-Nov-2007
Sometimes a priest actually breaks the Eucharistic bread during the
Consecration, at the words "he took the bread, blessed it, broke
it...". This is incorrect. The Eucharistic Prayer is not directed
toward the people. Rather, the priest leads the people in directing the
prayer to God the Father. - Fr Tim Deeter, Liturgy Office, Archdiocese of Sydney
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13-Nov-2007
To determine whether a policy serves the common good, we ask what
impact it will have on those who are poor and vulnerable. While many
politicians offer individual satisfaction, people of faith long for
leaders who consider the needs of all. - Fr Mark Raper SJ / Catholic Religious Australia
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12-Nov-2007
Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio
is a significant development in the history and law of the liturgy. But
while it intends to heal division over the liturgy, there is the danger
that it may sharpen divisions and allow the liturgy to be treated as a
museum piece. A fixed, unchanging liturgy is symbolic of a fixed,
unchanging theology. - Andrew Cameron-Mowat
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