News
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15-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict has named 23 new cardinals - the newest additions to the Pontiffs select group of closest aides.
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15-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict XVI has completed his second encyclical, a meditation on Christian hope, Vatican sources have said.
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15-Oct-2007
The Vatican has suspended a senior priest in the Holy See who
acknowledged homosexual relations in a supposedly anonymous television
interview, but he now insists he is not gay.
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15-Oct-2007
World Mission day will be celebrated this Sunday, October 21, by Church services around Australia.
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15-Oct-2007
A five-person Vatican delegation is in Sydney this week to review preparations for World Youth Day 2008.
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15-Oct-2007
The Vatican is reproducing copies of the investigations of the trial of
the Knights Templar, almost 700 years after they were suppressed by
papal edict.
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15-Oct-2007
The tense relationship between the Australian Jockey Club and the
Archdiocese of Sydney took a turn for the worse yesterday after a media
lockout spoiled an event aimed at promoting World Youth Day.
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15-Oct-2007
More than 50 young Australians accompanied the World Youth Day Cross
and Icon last week as it travelled through the Outback, visiting Alice
Springs, Uluru and Coober Pedy.
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15-Oct-2007
The Columban Missionaries say the biotech industry which promotes GM
food as a solution to global hunger is trying to get GM food crops into
Australia.
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15-Oct-2007
The Australian Catholic Disability Council is outtraged by a reality
TV-style program which mocks and ridicules people with intellectual
disabilities.
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15-Oct-2007
The Catholic Labor Member for Indooroopilly in the Queensland
Parliament has expressed sadness following last week's vote in favour
of allowing research on cloned humans.
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15-Oct-2007
A National response to mental health and homelessness will be high on
the agenda at "Breaking the Cycle", a Conference organised by the St
Vincent de Paul Society, on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th October in
Sydney.
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15-Oct-2007
Fr Frank Brennan has defended the right of churches to speak on
political matters following last week's attack from Federal Health
Minister Tony Abbott.
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15-Oct-2007
NetAct, a lobby group based at the Sydney office of Catholic Religious Australia, has released its Federal Election 2007 Kit.
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15-Oct-2007
Church groups have rejected Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews
justifications to reduce the number of Sudanese refugees entering
Australia.
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15-Oct-2007
Mr Abbott has told Church leaders to butt out of politics and stick to encouraging morality among their flocks.
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15-Oct-2007
Immaculate Conception Hawthorn parish priest Fr Des Dwyer SJ is leading
a research project which hopes to engage more young people in the
Church.
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15-Oct-2007
St Mary's House of Welcome will receive a $2.5million injection form the Federal Governnment.
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News - National
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15-Oct-2007
Australia's best practices in the work against trafficking in persons
(TIP) is being presented to an international gathering of women
Religious, in Rome this week by Brisbane Good Samaritan Sr Pauline Coll
SGS.
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15-Oct-2007
Most girls dream of walking down the aisle of a beautful candelit
church, adorned with flowers, to the sound of organ music and complete
with confetti on the church steps.
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15-Oct-2007
Bishop Julian Porteous, auxiliary bishop of Sydney believes a new
pastoral plan is just what the pastoral and apostolic works needs to
make a "fresh start."
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15-Oct-2007
The Broome Diocese has hit out at the Prime Minister over the
"posturing" that is intended to have Australians "believe that he is
now on the same road to Reconciliation as people like Pat Dodson".
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News - International
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15-Oct-2007
A Mexican priest ended up behind bars after punching a policemen who
caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city
of Monterrey.
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15-Oct-2007
A Catholic priest who often discards his collar for glittery one-piece
suits believes he can worship God and also be a follower of Elvis.
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15-Oct-2007
Pope Benedict has issued an appeal for the release of two Catholic priests who were kidnapped in Iraq.
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Religion
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15-Oct-2007
Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart from Australia, New Zealand,
Peru and Ireland gathered at St Joseph’s Baulkham Hills on Sunday,
October 14, for their 25th General Chapter.
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Regulars
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15-Oct-2007
As a funeral arranger, Patsy was to go into the homes of many grieving
families. But one experience really affected her - the calm acceptance
she witnessed in a Catholic family who had lost their teenage son. "It
was their faith that supported them. On the way back from the funeral I
said to [my boss] John, 'I want what they have.'
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15-Oct-2007
Kevin Andrews devoted his early political career to a crusade on the
sanctity of human life. These days he finds himself accused of
demonising some of the world's most marginalised with words that have
appalled critics and astonished friends.
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15-Oct-2007
The Sophia Network of Catholic Women welcomed Archbishop John Dew’s
sanctioning Sr Joan’s visit to the Archdiocese. Joan chastises the
decisionmakers in the church for their emphasis on masculine images of
God, when there are many feminine images in scripture. For many women,
masculine images affect women’s worship and spirituality through
difficulties in finding authentic ways of praying and ministering.
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15-Oct-2007
Dr Theresa Burke is the founder of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries, an
organisation which runs weekend retreats for those suffering emotional
trauma caused by an abortion. Many believe that men are peripheral
figures in the decision making process, detached and unaffected by the
woman’s 'choice'. But her husband Kevin's new book, Redeeming a Father’s Heart, addresses the suffering men experience from abortion.
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15-Oct-2007
For Branko Culina, legend of Australian football, SBS commentator and
new coach of Sydney FC, faith, family and football intersect. "When I
was a young kid coming through, we Croatians were brought up on
football and church," he says. "That was the way of coming together".
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15-Oct-2007
There is a stark similarity between the words of post-war Immigration
Minister Arthur Calwell and those which current Immigration Minister
Kevin Andrews spoke last week, in explanation of the recent cut in
acceptance of refugees from Sudan.
Both
give priority to national interest. But we must ask the question of
what is Australia's refugee resettlement program, and who is it for. - Fr David Holdcroft SJ, director Jesuit Refugee Service
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15-Oct-2007
World Mission Sunday takes place this Sunday. Today fewer Australian
missionaries working overseas. There are many vibrant Christian
communities that are fruits of the former missionaries’ love, care and
hard work and the mysterious power of God’s Spirit. One might then ask:
where do we go from here? - Fr Patrick Harvey, Director Catholic Mission, Melbourne
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15-Oct-2007
The conflict that defines the 21st Century is rather one of religious
fundamentalism. It might be a crude oversimplification to say that East
versus West has in effect become Middle East versus West, but that is
nonetheless how the equation has been interpreted in populist political
discourse. Little surprise, then, that religious faith has come to the
fore in domestic political dialogue. - Channel 9 Adelaide political reporter Tom Richardson
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15-Oct-2007
I have been described as a ‘Spanish noble’ but even as a child I found
religion more interesting than nobility. I enjoyed reading the lives of
the saints, and playing at being a hermit in the garden. When my mother
died when I was 12, I prayed for Our Lady to be my mother’s replacement.
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15-Oct-2007
The imminent beatification of Spanish missionary Gabino Olaso Zabala is
causing some consternation. According to written testimony from the
victim, Olaso participated in the 1896 torture of a Filipino priest.
But the Church teaches that even great sinners are redeemed by shedding
their blood for the faith. - John L. Allen
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