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12-Mar-2008
Two World Youth Day programs will get a plug across Sydney parishes on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday in an effort to spread the word about the rapidly approaching event.
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News
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10-Mar-2008
Four new State and federal parliamentarians have joined the Local Organising Committee (LOC) overseeing World Youth Day Sydney 2008.
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14-Mar-2008
The St Vincent de Paul Society has raised concerns about the "crippling impact" of mounting pressures on Australian families.
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News - National
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11-Mar-2008
Festivities for Ireland's and perhaps Australia's favourite saint will be pushed forward this year so as not to disrupt Holy Week.
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10-Mar-2008
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Office for the Participation of Women has celebrated International Women's Day with a special Mass and lunch at the ACBC secretariat in Canberra.
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14-Mar-2008
Catholic Mission will launch a new interactive website next month.
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11-Mar-2008
The Bishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Australia and New Zealand have met in a show of unity among churches.
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10-Mar-2008
Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has announced the appointment of lawyer and policy advocate, Martin Laverty as its new chief executive officer.
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13-Mar-2008
Victoria's Catholic social service agencies met for their annual gathering yesterday to formally commission their work for the coming year.
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14-Mar-2008
The Diocese of Wollongong has launched a new look, full colour magazine, entitled Journey.
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13-Mar-2008
The number of World Youth Day pilgrims who are expected to arrive from the United States has dramatically dropped from 37,000 to 20,000.
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10-Mar-2008
A Sydney Sister of Mercy has persuaded the United Nations to take up the case of a serial child rapist, the first sex offender to be kept in jail under the NSW "lock them up for good" law.
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11-Mar-2008
A Marist Brother who molested eight students at a Sydney school in the 1970s has been jailed for a minimum of 18 months.
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11-Mar-2008
A confidential survey has revealed white students are leaving public schools to attend Catholic and private institutions to avoid studying with Aboriginal, Muslim and Asian pupils.
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10-Mar-2008
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission (QCEC) has released a statement articulating a distinctly Catholic foundation for curriculum in the state's Catholic schools.
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12-Mar-2008
Australia's new Apostolic Nuncio has arrived in Canberra after a brief stop in Sydney.
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News - International
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13-Mar-2008
A homosexual activist group plan to throw ashes at Pope Benedict during his visit to the United States next month.
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14-Mar-2008
A Polish priest and one time associate of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla has been named the winner of the world's largest annual monetary award - the Templeton Prize.
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13-Mar-2008
The Irish Catholic bishops have called for an end to sports matches and training on Sunday mornings in a bid to make the Sabbath sacred again.
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11-Mar-2008
An Irish nun has been awarded more than $14,000 in compensation for age discrimination by a Catholic College.
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14-Mar-2008
Abducted Iraqi Archbishop Faraj Rahho has been found dead.
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12-Mar-2008
Grave concerns have been expressed by an Iraqi archbishop that kidnapped Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul is sick, injured or has been killed.
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10-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict has once again condemned the "spiral of destruction" in the Holy Land calling on Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate for peace.
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13-Mar-2008
Four Caritas staff working in Pakistan have been seriously injured after two deadly bomb blasts in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore.
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12-Mar-2008
Just under 50 people in India have gone blind after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary.
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13-Mar-2008
A Catholic priest has had his sentence increased to life imprisonment for his part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
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12-Mar-2008
Relations between China and the Vatican will not improve until its citizens have religious freedom, the Archbishop of Taipei says.
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Religion
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11-Mar-2008
Polluting the environment, drug pushing and genetic manipulation have been added to the list of mortal sins.
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12-Mar-2008
A new provincial leader has been elected for the Redemptorists for Australia and New Zealand.
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14-Mar-2008
The Episcopal Conference of England and Wales has dismissed reports that a new list of seven deadly sins has been approved by the Vatican.
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Regulars
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14-Mar-2008
There is a computer program called Photoshop that publishers use to improve their photographs. We have been "photoshopping" Jesus for centuries and now it is difficult for us to get back to the real Him. - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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13-Mar-2008
Archbishop John Odama spearheaded a movement for reconciliation that captured the imagination of a war-weary public. He became a conduit for delicate negotiations between the warring parties, venturing deep into guerilla territory to pitch the case for peace directly to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
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12-Mar-2008
On May 1, it will be ‘Angel Wings’ that will raise up Fr John Fowles from Thurgoona parish in the Diocese of Wagga Wagga, on a charity flight around Australia to raise money for East Timor. T
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11-Mar-2008
Many people assume that biofuels must be a good thing because they help the world to combat global warming and reduce dependence on oil from politically unstable regions. Both of those assumptions are incorrect.
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10-Mar-2008
The letter, A Common Word from the 138 Muslim scholars and leaders is an invitation to the Church’s leaders to become Muslims, and will be read as such by knowledgeable Muslims generally. No one should be in any doubt on this point, least of all those proposing to meet with these scholars.
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14-Mar-2008
Marist College Ashgrove is a Brisbane Catholic boys college and a highly regarded institution in education circles in Queensland and beyond.
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13-Mar-2008
Everything a web presence for an active Catholic organisation aspires to be, is contained in this website for St John of God Health Care.
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12-Mar-2008
H2onews is a Catholic news service on a worldwide scale that creates and distributes multimedia news on a daily basis in eight languages.
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11-Mar-2008
NZ Catholic website is an online companion to New Zealand's national Catholic newspaper, NZ Catholic, though as it points out it is not an online version of the print edition. Most of the content of the website does not appear in print and most of the newspaper does not appear online. Both use reports by NZ Catholic staff and correspondents as well as coverage by international Catholic news services.
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10-Mar-2008
Acceptable Time is an initiative of Paul Skippen and Marg Grills providing Catholic schools and parishes with resources and hands-on experiences that assist in proclaiming and celebrating what it means to be partners in the mission of the Church.
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11-Mar-2008
With director Richard Attenborough at 83, we are not expecting an avant garde film. No, this is old-fashioned film-making which appeals to older audiences and those with a romantic vein.
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10-Mar-2008
Make Me Normal focuses on four of the most able students at one of Britain's largest special schools for children with autism, the Spa school, and how they struggle with autism. The journey with these four is explosive, revealing, haunting and painful.
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12-Mar-2008
This week's program on The Rhythm Divine is a feature on the sounds of sacred space. Medieval cathedrals did more than simply inspire awe.
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14-Mar-2008
Australian Catholic author Karen Doyle has released a new book entitled The Genius of Womanhood based on Pope John Paul II’s work on ‘the feminine genius’.
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14-Mar-2008
When I reflect on my life and the lives of others I know, one thing that really worries me is that too many people lack hope.
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13-Mar-2008
To recognise the consequences of wrongdoing in which I have been involved as actor or as beneficiary is only a first step.
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12-Mar-2008
The newly revised list of the seven deadly sins is indeed an announcement that makes everyone step back and consider our moral actions in terms of a much larger global perspective.
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11-Mar-2008
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to weddings. But this idea really hit a chord with me. First, it's a nice touch on the wedding day. Second, it's a visual symbol of your commitment and marriage bonds in your house, every day. Third, it's a life-preserver on the sometimes-rough river of relationships.
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10-Mar-2008
We inhabit a culture where scientists propose previously unthinkable outcomes that can now be achieved. These include modifying food, changing the direction of river flows, and adjusting the genetic makeup of human beings.
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13-Mar-2008
A community rally including church, trade union, student, environment, peace and anti-nuclear groups will be held in Melbourne on Palm Sunday, the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
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