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07-Mar-2008
Australian Catholic University has appointed Rabbi John Levi AM and Dr Daniel Madigan SJ as Adjunct Professors to the Asia-Pacific Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue (APCID) based at the university's Melbourne Campus.
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05-Mar-2008
A Brazilian priest who doubles as a pop singer has sold 3.3 million recordings, outselling the most popular secular performers in Brazil.
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News
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04-Mar-2008
More than 4,000 Victorian Catholic school teachers will strike on Friday in their bid for higher wages, smaller class sizes and better working conditions.
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04-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict has encouraged the Salesians of Don Bosco and other religious to continue to seek out a spiritual life rooted in "profound mysticism and a solid asceticism" instead of activism.
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07-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople have met and prayed in private in small chapel of the Vatican.
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06-Mar-2008
Relations between the Vatican and Muslims took another step forward after a meeting between representatives of both religions paved the way for a "Catholic-Muslim" forum to be held later this year.
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05-Mar-2008
The Vatican will be erecting a statue of Galileo Galilei inside the city's walls - 400 years after the scientist was tried for heresy.
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03-Mar-2008
The Foreshore site which will used to for the arrival and official welcome by Pope Benedict for World Youth Day is contaminated with toxic chemicals including cyanide, benzene and lead.
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04-Mar-2008
Cardinal George Pell was presented with the official World Youth Day commemorative gold and silver coins in a ceremony at St Mary's Cathedral House yesterday.
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07-Mar-2008
The Sydney Chamber of Commerce says World Youth Day will boost the economy by $230 million.
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06-Mar-2008
World Youth Day's latest "luxury" sponsor Mercedes Benz has jumped on board to help ferry around Pope Benedict and his entourage during his Sydney visit.
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05-Mar-2008
The cost to host World Youth Day has blown out to $150 million dollars a sharp rise from the initial figure of $100 million.
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News - National
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03-Mar-2008
Australia's Catholic Bishops have welcomed a political agreement reached in Kenya and hope it will help achieve reconciliation and forge a just and lasting peace.
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06-Mar-2008
Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Australia Frank Quinlan has called on the new Attorney-General to revisit recent changes to family law which put many children of separated parents at risk of avoidable psychological distress.
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06-Mar-2008
Australian Jesuit Provincial and Catholic Religious Australia president Fr Mark Raper has been appointed as the President of the Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania.
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05-Mar-2008
A special celebration was held on the weekend at Mary MacKillop place to mark the changes to the Congregational Leadership Team of the Josephites.
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03-Mar-2008
The St Vincent de Paul Society has elected Victorian Syd Tutton as its new National President.
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07-Mar-2008
The Director of the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne Stephen Elder has thanked the "vast majority" of principals, teachers and staff for not attending a stop work meeting today.
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07-Mar-2008
A book which tells the story of "our own Mother Teresa" has been launched in Sydney.
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07-Mar-2008
Thousands will attend the Iona Passion Play which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this month.
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04-Mar-2008
More Australians will be eating fish on Good Friday as seafood retailers reveal sales on Holy Thursday have doubled in the last three years.
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News - International
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06-Mar-2008
A US Catholic Hospital which at first refused surgery for a male transexual patient, has now reversed its decision and will permit the procedure.
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06-Mar-2008
A priest from the Moscow Patriachate has spoken out against Orthodox believers praying with other Christians saying it is best for Orthodox to avoid praying in public or private with faithful of other denominations.
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05-Mar-2008
The Padre Pio association has accused the Vatican of "tampering with the dead" after the body of Italy's favourite saint was exhumed from its tomb.
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04-Mar-2008
Mystic monk Padre Pio's body has been exhumed 40 years after his death to be prepared for display to his devotees.
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04-Mar-2008
A rebel commander who was at the home of East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta the morning he was shot and seriously wounded has surrendered amid strong indications other rebels, including their new leader Gastao Salsinha, may follow suit after negotiations with the Catholic Church.
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03-Mar-2008
Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul has been kidnapped by armed men - the gunmen killing two of his bodyguards and his driver.
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03-Mar-2008
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the past five days prompting Pope Benedict to call on both sides for an unconditional halt to the violence.
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05-Mar-2008
The Iraqi Prime Minister had ordered the country's security forces to step up efforts to secure the release of a kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop.
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Religion
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03-Mar-2008
Gender-neutral phrases used in the Liturgy have been ruled as invalid by the Vatican saying anyone baptised using any other term other than "Our Father" will have to be re-baptised.
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Regulars
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07-Mar-2008
Catholics still need to learn about the Church's teachings on end-of-life issues, such as when it might be morally acceptable to reject or terminate life-prolonging treatments.
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06-Mar-2008
We have all heard stories of people coming to a Sunday parish Mass - perhaps visitors from another State or country, or someone who has been estranged from the church, or an enquirer wanting to find out about Catholic faith and practice – and are totally ignored by other worshippers. Rest assured, this would never happen at one of the so-called mega churches!
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05-Mar-2008
Anna Lee is 82 years old this year and recalls her days of captivity with the Imperial Japanese Army as if it was a recent happening.
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04-Mar-2008
The more we thank God for what he has done, the more faith we have to believe for what he is going to do. The more we dwell on the prayers he has already granted, the more confidence we have that he will answer our next prayers too.
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03-Mar-2008
In the case of the Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths it is clear that the measure of what constitutes a just and well society is found in the care that is given to the widow, the orphan and the stranger.
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07-Mar-2008
The QCEC represents Queensland's five Diocesan education authorities and religious institute schools in the state. Its key mission is the coordination and advancement of Catholic education in Queensland.
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06-Mar-2008
Founded by St Vincent de Paul and St Louise de Marillac in 1633, the Daughters of Charity were established to seek and serve God in persons who are poor. They arrived in Australia in 1926 and maintain an active profile throughout the country with missions in aged care, working with the homeless and people with a disability.
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05-Mar-2008
Operating in New South Wales and now in south-east Queensland as a result of recently taking responsibility of the Villa Maria centres formerly run by the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Catholic Healthcare conducts 40 residential age care facilities, 10 seniors living communities and three hospitals.
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04-Mar-2008
Celebrate Love is an initiative of the Sydney-based Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre (PMRC). It is a seminar for married couples exploring intimacy and spirituality in the Catholic context.
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03-Mar-2008
The Catholic Diocese of Lismore has experienced a tough past 12 months, with the tragic deaths of much loved clergy and the force of wild weather impacting on Church property.
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07-Mar-2008
The Black Balloon was accepted into competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. A low budget production, it does not spare the viewer from imagining how any of us would cope with having a son on the cusp of manhood, who is autistic and has ADD.
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04-Mar-2008
Sylvester Stallone proved at 60 he could revive his iconic creation, Rocky Balboa, after five movies over a thirty year period.
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03-Mar-2008
A visit to the sacred mountain of St Patrick in County Mayo is the feature of this program in search of the spirit of the patron saint of the Emerald Isle and perhaps a saint celebrated by more Australians than any other.
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05-Mar-2008
Melbourne priest Fr Gerard Dowling OAM hosts this Sunday night family counselling program on racing and sports network, Sport 927. It is the longest running broadcast of its type in Australia.
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07-Mar-2008
A gathering of women such as this one has the potential to change the world for women everywhere if we will only try, if we will only persist, if we will only risk raising the questions and concerns that remain unasked and unattended to by systems that ignore women.
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06-Mar-2008
But these three Gospels show us that these are never the last word, the final word. Into each of these situations, where the last word seems clearly to have been spoken, comes a new word. Into each of these situations comes the Word, Jesus, the living Word, Word made flesh.
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05-Mar-2008
Daily we find ourselves sitting across from someone where the situation calls for a new story and we can only stutter. There’s supplication in the other person’s eyes and in the situation itself - please a new story, not the old one!
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04-Mar-2008
Most Australians have never imagined a world without teenagers, without groups of self-confident adolescents moving through our shopping centres, beaches and sporting events with their ipods and mobiles.
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03-Mar-2008
The challenge is for the Church to be a community that confesses its own brokenness and reaches out to minister a healing reconciliation between the races, between the young and the old, between liberal and conservative, gay and straight, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.
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06-Mar-2008
The inaugural University Concert for Catholic Education Week is taking place at ACU National’s Melbourne campus (St. Patrick’s) on March 12.
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