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13-Feb-2008
A nun, who had been dubbed Poland's best cook and sold more than
850,000 recipe books, has just released a DVD sharing her cooking tips.
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13-Feb-2008
Cardinal George Pell has announced the winner of the Sydney Archdiocese $100,000 grant to support adult stem cell research.
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13-Feb-2008
The Vatican spokesman has said Pope Benedict will not visit the Holy Land next year after a Vatican meeting with Israel failed to resolve outstanding issues.
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13-Feb-2008
Pope Benedict has been offered a make-over by famous Italian film and opera director to help him portray a "happy image"
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13-Feb-2008
The Vatican has dismissed condemnation by al Qaeda saying the militant
group is “worried” by the historic meeting between the Pope and Saudi
Arabia’s King Abdullah.
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13-Feb-2008
The cause for beatification of Pope Pius XII has been sidetracked, according to a Roman news agency report.
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13-Feb-2008
In a meditation during the final days of Advent, Pope Benedict has said
that celebrating Christmas without mentioning of the birth of Christ is
like having an "empty holiday".
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13-Feb-2008
Sydney's Cardinal George Pell has vehemently disagreed with the
worldwide Anglican head, who has said Christians don't need to believe
Christ was born of a virgin.
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13-Feb-2008
Pope Benedict’s celebration of Midnight Mass will once again be beamed
into homes, hospitals and nursing homes across Australia via an ABC
telecast on Christmas Day.
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13-Feb-2008
In the face of increasing hostility in Russia and elsewhere, the
Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has defended the
right and duty of Catholics to undertake evangelisation intended to
convert people of other faiths.
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13-Feb-2008
Australia's Catholic Bishops have discussed the results of a survey
that reveals many Catholics have stopped attending Mass because they
feel the Church is irrelevant to their lives.
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13-Feb-2008
Australia Post joins World Youth Day as an official licensee with a range of products.
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13-Feb-2008
Operational plans for World Youth Day Sydney 2008 have been approved by the Vatican body that oversees preparations.
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13-Feb-2008
Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby has said that sparing the Bali 9
drug runners on death row will only occur if Australia's opposition to
the death penalty is consistent.
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13-Feb-2008
The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council will today release a new
paper on the death penalty, in the Brisbane parish of Bali 9 death row
inmate Scott Rush.
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13-Feb-2008
The Sydney Archdiocesan Marriage and Family Office has said proposed
legislation permitting same-sex civil unions in the ACT should cause us
to reflect on the "social importance" of heterosexual marriage.
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13-Feb-2008
The Catholic Church is absorbing news that the Melbourne Anglican
diocese has made a submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission
supporting the decriminalisation of abortion.
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13-Feb-2008
St Vincent de Paul National CEO John Falzon has said the previous
government's welfare to work arrangements will spoil Christmas for many
single mums, people with disabilities and unemployed people.
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13-Feb-2008
Vinnies 'Santa' volunteers will be putting their mechanical skills to
good use by building wheelchairs for landmine victims today at the Mary
MacKillop Outreach workshop in Sydney.
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13-Feb-2008
The head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land has rejected the idea
of a religious State saying it would exclude other religions and that
peace depends on
Israel’s recognition that Palestinians are equal.
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13-Feb-2008
Catholic Social Services Australia has appealed to the new government
to make child protection a priority as both state and federal leaders
come together for the first time since the election.
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13-Feb-2008
An Italian priest who has lived in Turkey for 27 years is the latest victim in a string of violent attacks on clergy.
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13-Feb-2008
Retired Canberra-Goulburn Archbishop Francis Carroll and other
Australian church leaders were concerned by the suffering of
Palestinians that they witnessed during their recent visit to
Israel-Palestine.
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13-Feb-2008
Hundreds of protestors have come out in force to support a Brazilian
Bishop's hunger strike to stop the environmentally destructive
diversion of the country’s fourth largest river.
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13-Feb-2008
The Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty has set up a Christmas nativity scene in the foyer of the NSW Parliament House.
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13-Feb-2008
The Australian Council for Educational Leaders has awarded its
prestigious Presidential Citation to Parramatta Diocese Schools
Director Greg Whitby.
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13-Feb-2008
Cardinal George Pell has branded a TV advertisement depicting baby Jesus hurling back gifts to the wise men as "inappropriate".
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13-Feb-2008
Brisbane Archdiocese has launched its Come and Celebrate Christmas
campaign in an attempt to reach the more than 500,000 people within the
archdiocese who identify as Catholics but do not have close contact
with the Church.
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13-Feb-2008
An elderly Marist Brother will co-operate and surrender to police in
Canberra in response to allegations of child abuse spanning three
decades.
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13-Feb-2008
The Australian Catholic University will offer new early childhood
education specialisation its Aquinas Campus in Ballarat from next year.
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Regulars
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13-Feb-2008
It's been 42 years since A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on TV. After all this time, it's striking how well the show has aged. While it gently scolds America for its exploitation of the season, it really centres on the education of its main character. By letting commercialism spoil his Christmas, Charlie Brown becomes the prototypical "Scrooge in reverse."
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13-Feb-2008
One of the most unlikely women to have plotted mysterious murders was
writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Christian apologist, dramatist and
translator of Dante. "The death of the detective novelist," said her
friend John Stewart, "was the birth of the Christian apologist." With
the financial security the Wimsey stories brought her, she began the
work she liked best.
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13-Feb-2008
Jean Vanier is the French-Canadian former naval officer and academic
who founded L'Arche, the worldwide organisation of small, homely
communities where men and women with a learning disability live
alongside –- he would rather say "in communion with" -- their carers.
In an age where everyone is entitled to a sexual relationship and where
disabled people, when not aborted before birth, are often vulnerable to
the well-meaning abuse of those who care for them, Vanier's is a
prophetic voice.
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13-Feb-2008
Holland’s towering Dominican theologian, Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, is
with us yet, though at 93 his physical presence has diminished even as
his influence flourishes. This man’s theological ideas, expressed in
some 400 books and articles, published in 14 languages, have influenced
several generations of Catholic thinkers.
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13-Feb-2008
The gift of Vinnies founder Frederic Ozanam was to maintain a
single-minded focus without allowing the context within which he worked
to be blurred. As the title of hihs new biography, Love and Politics,
indicates he kept in sharp focus the faces of the poor. Faces make a
claim on compassion and on practical love. He saw this practical love,
and the Christian faith that motivated it, as central to the group he
founded.
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13-Feb-2008
There are no miracles in welfare to work policy. If Australians want
their government to move single parents off welfare and reduce child
poverty at the same time then it’s going to cost money. - Frank Quinlan, Catholic Social Services Australia
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13-Feb-2008
Although this week's Doctrinal Note on some Aspects of Evangelisation
from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith claims that many
people believe that to evangelise is to limit the freedom of others,
this is, as Gerald O’Collins has noted, rather doubtful. Rather than an
imposition on other people, or an intolerance of other beliefs, the Note argues that every person has a right to hear the Gospel, just as they have a right to hear the truth on any topic. - Martin Teulan, National Director, Catholic Mission
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13-Feb-2008
As she moved through the Palestinian countryside, Mary would have seen
a land reeling under the impact of a growing population and
over-grazing by flocks of sheep and goat. She would have also witnessed
the first century version of 'agribusiness' – wealthy people buying up
large tracts of land, to grow cash crops (wine, olives, grain), and so
forcing the peasants into poverty. - Br Moy Hitchen CFC
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13-Feb-2008
The Reserve Bank has announced that it will publish the minutes of its
monthly Board meetings. It is a further step towards ensuring that the
decisions made by the Board are made on the basis of evidence and
principle rather than interest and influence. This greater transparency
will make it more difficult for the Government to influence the Bank's
decisions.
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13-Feb-2008
As individuals and as communities, we can make Christmas Masses something special and not just 'same old, same old'? Lend a hand, arrive early, be hospitable... And don't forget that every parishioner at Christmas Masses can seize this once-a-year chance to evangelise simply through their joyful celebration of Christmas. - Elizabeth Harrington
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