News
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14-Jan-2008
St Peter’s Square was transformed into a mooing, squaking and neighing
barnyard as the Feast of St Anthony the Abbot was celebrated in the
peaceful confines of the Basilica.
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14-Jan-2008
Catholic Social Services (CSS) has welcomed news that Catholic welfare
agencies will be involved in 13 of the 25 new Family Relationship
Centres announced by the Federal Government yesterday.
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14-Jan-2008
University students holding banners and chanting slogans of support
came out in force at the Pope's weekly address, a day after the Pontiff
cancelled his visit to a Rome university amid protests by staff and
threats of demonstrations.
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14-Jan-2008
The Vatican has sent a letter of explanation to the Rome university where Pope Benedict was forced to cancel a visit this week.
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14-Jan-2008
Singing seminarian Robert Galea has been selected to sing at World Youth Day during the Stations of the Cross.
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14-Jan-2008
A lobby group of victims of sexual abuse at the hands of clergy have
demanded the Victorian government establish an independent justice
commission into the crimes.
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14-Jan-2008
The St Vincent de Paul Society in Queensland has been inundated with
more than 400 calls for financial assistance to help families with the
cost of getting children back to school.
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14-Jan-2008
Centacare has applauded the positive response of a pregnancy
counselling helpline which has assisted more than 2500 people since its
launch last May.
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News - National
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14-Jan-2008
A special Mass was held earlier this month at the Mary MacKillop Chapel
in North Sydney to celebrate 26 Josephites for their 50 years of
religious profession and service.
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14-Jan-2008
Sydney's Archbishop Cardinal George Pell has slammed the Australian
Medical Association for its publication advocating a tax on children
and suggesting families should pay an annual carbon tax on their kids.
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14-Jan-2008
Marist Brother John Kostka has appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court
yesterday to face 18 charges of sexually abusing children at Canberra's
Marist College in the 1980s.
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Regulars
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14-Jan-2008
All his life he devoted himself to the reconciliation of the Churches.
Part of his appeal may have been his dislike of formal preaching while
encouraging a spiritual quest as a common endeavour. Always he was
genial and gracious, a smile never absent from his serene face. You
knew you were in the presence of a saint. - Fr John Murray
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14-Jan-2008
Prime Minister Rudd would do better seeking political guidance, rather
than personal moral guidance, from a political theorist not a
theologian. Like many others, Rudd unduly credits his brand of
Christianity with a humanitarianism that is common across many
philosophies and beliefs.
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