News
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19-Nov-2007
Violent political protestors in Mexico have stormed the city’s
Cathderal, kicking down the doors, scratching the pews and physically
attacking those in side forcing the closure of the holy building.
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19-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict will consecrate 23 new cardinals at a special ceremony at St Peter's Square tomorrow.
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19-Nov-2007
Days after a delegation of Austrian bishops were turned away from the
Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Holy See diplomat Archbishop Pietro Sambi
has admitted that ties between the Vatican and Israel were better
before there were diplomatic relations.
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19-Nov-2007
A film of the late John Paul II has been released featuring speeches he
made set to music ranging from Gregorian chants to trip-hip hop.
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19-Nov-2007
Baroque melodies and Gregorian chants may soon be the songs of choice
in Church as Pope Benedict considers returning to traditional sacred
music.
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19-Nov-2007
New South Wales Greens MP, Lee Rhiannon, has rejected an agreement to
compensate the costs of hosting next year's Sydney World Youth Day
gathering at Randwick saying that the Church will reap "massive
benefits" and should foot the bill.
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19-Nov-2007
The muurrpa (children) were getting more and more excited. The special
day that they had been practising for was finally here and they were
hopping off the bus at the caravan park where a small crowd had already
assembled. The big cross and the beautiful picture of Mary and Baby
Jesus that Aunty Nicola had travelled across Australia with were here
in Wilcannia for them to look at and touch.
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19-Nov-2007
World Youth Day organisers are hoping to recruit 10,000 Melburnians to
put up pilgrims for the Days in the Diocesese event in their city.
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19-Nov-2007
Australia's Catholic Bishops have welcomed the discovery by scientists
that potent stem cells from human skin, that should signal an end to
the destruction of human embryos for research.
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19-Nov-2007
Caritas Australia has dedicated an initial allocation of $50,000 for assistance to those affected by Super Cyclone Sidr.
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19-Nov-2007
Caritas Australia has urged Australia's political leaders to work to
close the 17 year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous Australians.
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19-Nov-2007
As it launches its Christmas Appeal, the St Vincent de Paul Society in
NSW is focusing upon the overwhelming pressures brought on by rising
rent levels.
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19-Nov-2007
Australia is working with local partners to gauge the extent of the
damage following a week of heavy rain and flooding that has cost more
than 70 lives in Papua New Guinea's Oro Province.
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19-Nov-2007
Australian Catholic University has appointed Dr Michael Gaffney to the position of Professor of Educational Leadership.
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19-Nov-2007
Researchers at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital have discovered a protein
that may help prevent weight loss in cancer patients and form the basis
of a treatment for severe obesity.
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News - National
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19-Nov-2007
Church Resources yesterday welcomed Communications Minister Helen
Coonan's announcement of $5.6 million funding for broadband for health
and aged care services in regional NSW and Queensland.
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19-Nov-2007
Outgoing Melbourne auxiliary Bishop Hilton Deakin has slammed inaction
by Australians over extensive human rights abuses in China, appealing
for a "sense of purpose" in standing up for freedom of belief.
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News - International
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19-Nov-2007
British Catholic parishes may no longer host church-based Amnesty
International groups, UK Catholic bishops say in a letter sent to
parishes.
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19-Nov-2007
A diptych of the Passion of Christ, crafted between 1360-1380 has sold
at auction in Paris for a record $6.6million (4 million euros).
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19-Nov-2007
A diptych of the Passion of Christ, crafted between 1360-1380 has sold
at auction in Paris for a record $6.6million (4 million euros).
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19-Nov-2007
Granada Archbishop Francisco Martinez is facing trial in a Spanish
criminal court after a priest he had sacked accused him of bullying,
"moral assault" and slander.
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19-Nov-2007
Granada Archbishop Francisco Martinez is facing trial in a Spanish
criminal court after a priest he had sacked accused him of bullying,
"moral assault" and slander.
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19-Nov-2007
A Filipino cinema owner has made a political stand by hanging a
nativity mural using the faces of the current and former presidents in
place of Mary and Joseph.
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19-Nov-2007
The Catholic Church in Southern India has expressed concern over a new
movie which attempts to portray Jesus' "missing years" on the Indian
subcontinent.
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19-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has urged Kenya’s bishops to defend the institutions of marriage and family life “at all costs”.
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19-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has appealed to politicians to broker a peaceful solution
in war torn Somalia after escalating violence has forced over a million
people to flee their homes.
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19-Nov-2007
A Chinese priest has been sentenced for three years for organising the celebrations of the consecration of a church.
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Religion
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19-Nov-2007
110 Alaskan Eskimos abused by Jesuit missionaries over three decades will receive a record $A56 million payout.
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19-Nov-2007
In a statement characterised by commentators as a call for a "new
Catholic action", US bishops say that the Church must form the
consciences of Catholics to bring their convictions into public and
political life.
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19-Nov-2007
Cardinal George Pell has said he is shocked and surprised at the number
of young people, especially young Catholics, who say they believe in
reincarnation, the Catholic Weekly reports.
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19-Nov-2007
After recent publication in Ireland, retired Sydney auxiliary Bishop
Geoffrey Robinson's bestselling book on sexual abuse is set for
publication in the US and Spain.
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Regulars
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19-Nov-2007
The nuns gave me something to aspire to, a message that went beyond
material and spiritual success. My mother gave me a similar message but
my father’s was slightly different. It seemed that he was more wary,
more cautious of big forces that could be dangerous, but the overall
impression was that of grasping life.
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19-Nov-2007
In the court of public opinion, Catholicism usually looms as the great
'Doctor No' of bioethical debate. From abortion to birth control, from
homosexuality to embryonic stem-cell research... Less well-known,
however, is the recent emergence of another cluster of bioethical
issues where the exact opposite is the case. - John L. Allen
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19-Nov-2007
Two big stories this week could signal the end of therapeutic cloning.
The scientist who cloned Dolly, Ian Wilmut, the world's most prominent
expert in cloning, has abandoned his plans to clone human embryos. He
believes that an "extremely exciting and astonishing" Japanese method
of creating stem cells is more effective and carried no ethical
baggage.
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19-Nov-2007
When people find out you have lost a baby through miscarriage they
usually have one of two responses. The first is that they say nothing
at all except for awkward small talk about every other aspect of our
life with the exception of the startling obvious that there is no more
baby. The second is that it becomes a window of opportunity for them to
share their own miscarriage story. - Terra Spiritus
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19-Nov-2007
The current Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Joe
Hockey, argues that “people of working age are much better off
financially and psychologically if they find paid work.†For people
whose only contact with poverty and income support reliance is
television current affairs programs, this justification might sound
reasonable. But for those on the front line it’s an oversimplified
fiction. - Frank Quinlan / Catholic Social Services Australia
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19-Nov-2007
In a democratic society, voters choose representatives to whom they
give authority to work for the common good, not only for the good of
the individual. The election is not about "me" and "my" economic or
social wellbeing alone. It is about the whole country, the individuals
in it. - ishop Kevin Manning
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19-Nov-2007
A sustainable atmosphere is a fundamental need and therefore a
fundamental right. Each person's right corresponds to a duty not to
pollute, nor to overuse, a common resource. Australia is not a good
global citizen with respect to climate change. We have little
authority, nor leverage, to argue a case in any international forum. - Dr John Sweeney / Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative
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19-Nov-2007
Many people today study theology out of curiosity, or perhaps out of a
desire to explore their own ideas of religion. This is fine, as far as
it goes, but it is not the 'vocation' of the theologian. The one who is
called by God to study theology seeks to place their increased
understanding at the service of the Church. - Archbishop Denis Hart
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19-Nov-2007
It is not uncommon for photographers to use the altar as a convenient
place for organising their photographic equipment or to move altar
candles because they might block the faces of the couple in the wedding
video. One photographer even stood on the altar during the signing of
the register to get a bird’s eye view of proceedings! The sacred nature
and symbolic significance of the altar is clearly spelt out in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. - Elizabeth Harrington / Liturgy Lines
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