News
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31-Jan-2008
A high ranking Church leader in Gaza has spoken out about the horrors
of the Palestinian strip describing the escalating humanitarian crisis
as "almost as bad as hell".
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31-Jan-2008
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) has called for the
replacement of the Citizenship test with compulsory "formation
sessions" where Australian values and attitudes can be promoted.
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31-Jan-2008
Catholics in Vietnam are challenging their country's communist government in a bold, yet quiet move calling for Church land to be returned.
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31-Jan-2008
Pope Benedict has urged the media to practice "info ethics" saying the
media is often used to create reality rather than just report it.
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31-Jan-2008
Prominent Aboriginal Catholic Graeme Mundine has advised the Federal
Government to stop wasting time talking about saying "sorry" to
indigenous Australians and to just do it.
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21-Jan-2008
The newly elected Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr Adolfo Nicolas
told an Australian Jesuit publication last year that the Church in Asia
has much to offer the whole Church and that it ''had not taken the
risks'' that it should have.
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21-Jan-2008
Pope Benedict XVI has decided to reformulate a Good Friday prayer in
the 1962 Roman Missal that was offensive to Jews, according to an
Italian newspaper.
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21-Jan-2008
After meeting with bishops from Arab regions on Friday, the Pope has
called upon all Catholics to help Arab Christians to remain in their
countries.
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21-Jan-2008
Fears Pope Benedict wants to abandon liturgical reform are unfounded, a Vatican liturgist has said.
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21-Jan-2008
Tens of thousands of supporters gathered en mass in St Peter's Square
on Sunday, to show solidarity for Pope Benedict after staff and
students from a Rome university last week protested a proposed visit by
the Holy Father.
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21-Jan-2008
World Youth Day organisers have released a parish version of the official Mass Setting commissioned by George Palmer.
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21-Jan-2008
Two fluffy lambs were given a holy blessing in an ancient tradition to mark the feast of St Agnes.
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21-Jan-2008
The Vatican has been accused of "meddling" in Italian politics and
causing the near collapse of the government after a Catholic minister
left the Prime Minister's coalition.
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21-Jan-2008
Twenty thousand young people packed an arena in the US recently for the annual Rally for Life and Youth Mass.
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21-Jan-2008
Rowdy supporters of a Vatican-backed football tournament have been
asked to keep down their raucous cheering following complaints from
neighbours.
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21-Jan-2008
Visa cheats will not stand a chance at using World Youth Day to become
illegal citizens after the Sydney Archdiocese and the Federal
Government agreed to weed out "fake" pilgrims in exchange for the
waiving of visa application fees.
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21-Jan-2008
Climate change and its effects on future generations will headline this year's Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series.
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21-Jan-2008
A pro-life vigil to mark the 35th anniversary of the Roe vs Wade US
Supreme Court decision to legalise abortion has blasted the historic
ruling as "not compatible with human dignity'' and a decision that
''will not stand''.
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21-Jan-2008
Catholic school enrolments across Sydney have continued to rise defying
a long-term downward trend, the Sydney Catholic Education Office
revealed.
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News - National
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21-Jan-2008
Despite the Australian share market's plummet to its worst day in 10
years wiping billions from superannuation funds, Catholic Super and
Retirement Fund (CSRF) has advised members not to panic but rather to
look to the long term in regards to their super.
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News - International
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21-Jan-2008
The Italian Government has been thrown into a tailspin after the small
Catholic party Udeur - whose alliance with the Prime Minster ensures
his slender majority - withdrew from the coalition.
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21-Jan-2008
A Catholic priest has revealed Princess Diana’s butler had asked him
whether she could marry a Muslim only months before her death.
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21-Jan-2008
An outraged Indian Bishop has spoken out against fanatics who attack Christians comparing them to fascists.
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Religion
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21-Jan-2008
St Peter of Argos' relics have been found after being "lost" for over five hundred years.
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21-Jan-2008
The Society of Jesus has elected a Spanish born academic who has spent
the past five decades in Asia as its new Superior General.
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21-Jan-2008
Ecumenism is a movement of prayer, Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity president Cardinal Kasper said as the 100th Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity concludes this week.
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21-Jan-2008
Christians and Muslims gathered in the Philippines to pay their
respects to slain priest Fr Reynaldo Jesus Roda, in an united front of
mourning.
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Regulars
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31-Jan-2008
It would be easy to assume that Geoff Morris would be too busy seeing WYD08 as an enormous logistical exercise to contemplate the personal and spiritual effect it will have on the pilgrims. But you would be wrong. He is acutely aware the most important part of WYD08 will be the spiritual growth it brings, on both a personal level, and for the Catholic Church in Australia. - The Catholic Weekly
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21-Jan-2008
For those who are unreflective, sex can be just another meal in the
fast food mall of life. The problem is not sexual immorality so much as
it is the inability of young adults to relate to one another in ways
that allow sexuality to give them what they truly desire.
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21-Jan-2008
In a world that is increasingly ready to see our current situation as a
winner-takes-all struggle between two incompatible civilizations, A Common Word is a welcome reminder that there is an alternative and that we can still try to envision a common future.
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21-Jan-2008
Liturgy is made up of more than words and music alone. Liturgical body
language unifies the assembly and communicates respect for the liturgy,
the community and for God. Through our gestures we are totally involved
- body, mind and spirit - in the act of worship. - Elizabeth Harrington
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21-Jan-2008
At an earlier stage in the life of the Church what Catholics naturally
and unreflectively did was to have their children baptised at the
earliest possible moment after their birth. If parents did not insist
on this, grandparents certainly would.
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31-Jan-2008
It is of considerable interest to note that the members of the South
Australian parliament may well be the first among Western legislators
to debate human cloning so close to the breakthroughs in the United
States and Japan. Scientists in those two countries have created stem
cells directly from skin cells. In other words, there is no need for
embryo destruction. - Bishop Greg O'Kelly - The Sunday Mail
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21-Jan-2008
We make too many concessions to the world, as a result, we condemn
ourselves and those around us to mediocrity. We are to distinguish
ourselves from others by means of our Christ-like character. The first
Christians had the audacity to be different and therefore they created
a new world. - Fr Nicolas Schwizer
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21-Jan-2008
The new thinking is that nuclear power is a growing industry that is
safe and secure and has the technology to deal with its wastes. The
view is that it is critical to the diversification of energy supply and
it is essential to combating climate change. -Michael Angwin
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21-Jan-2008
As sad and heart-breaking as was Jesus' death, those who loved him
experienced it as something which gave them deeper life, let them
breathe more freely, and freed them from feelings of guilt. That is an
incredible paradox but not without parallels within our own experience.
- Fr Ron Rolheiser
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21-Jan-2008
Religious growth in South Korea is like global warming. We do not know
exactly how it began, how long it will last or why it peters out. But
these are years of plenty for Christian Korea. - Cardinal George Pell
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