News
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20-Mar-2008
Filipinos taking part in Easter crucifixions and self-flagellation rituals have been sent a stern warning by health officials to get a tetanus shot first and sterilise the nails to avoid infections.
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20-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict will do less walking during the traditional Good Friday procession at the Colosseum opting to watch most of the service from a vantage point on a nearby hill.
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19-Mar-2008
English speakers who have a story to tell about the late Pope John Paul II, are being called on by the office in charge of promoting his canonisation cause to let their voices be heard.
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18-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict has been openly criticised by Italian newspaper La Stampa for his silence on the violence in Tibet however a Vatican source says the absence of an announcement is more to do with the lack of information coming from the region than any intention to appease China.
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17-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict celebrated the start of Holy Week yesterday with the blessing of palms and olive branches in St Peter's Square.
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17-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict has denounced the war in Iraq and issued one of his strongest appeals for peace after the death of kidnapped Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho.
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20-Mar-2008
Five kilometres of Sydney streets are expected to be closed for the Papal welcome for World Youth Day in July as organisers plan for the motorcade to move through George Street and around Circular Quay.
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19-Mar-2008
A secret weapon to ensure sunny skies during Pope Benedict's visit to Sydney for World Youth Day has been revealed - prayers.
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18-Mar-2008
Over 1,700 students from Catholic, government and independent schools from across the Broken Bay diocese will gather today to host a unique World Youth Day event.
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18-Mar-2008
Sydney Harbour will provide a beautiful backdrop for Pope Benedict when he arrives in the city for World Youth Day in a nautical adaptation of his traditional motorcade.
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News - National
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19-Mar-2008
Exorcisms and other faith-based cures have been blasted by the peak body for mental health professionals who have made a stern warning about the potential dangers associated with them.
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20-Mar-2008
Campaigners for Mary MacKillop's canonisation will be urging the Pope next month to recognise Australia's first saint in the universal Church.
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20-Mar-2008
Australian Catholic Bishop Council President Philip Wilson has reminded Australians this Easter that the Lord's suffering, death and resurrection gives hope to the world.
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19-Mar-2008
The Australian Greens have called on the Federal Government to remove restrictions on Australian overseas aid funding which currently bans it from being used on activities that support abortions.
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18-Mar-2008
The Rudd Government is being urged to send a full-time Australian ambassador to the Vatican ahead of the papal visit.
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18-Mar-2008
The Director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office Monsignor John Murphy will visit the Christmas Island Detention Centre during a pastoral visit to the island.
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17-Mar-2008
Young people who believed their parents or friends approved of drinking tended to drink more and were more likely to drink with potentially harmful consequences, according to studies conducted by Australian Catholic University.
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20-Mar-2008
Parramatta Bishop Kevin Manning says the primary mission of Catholic social services is to spread the Gospel message of hope and to be "the face of Christ" to those in need.
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17-Mar-2008
The parents and parish priest of convicted drug trafficker Scott Rush say the fight for his life has entered its most critical phase.
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19-Mar-2008
Australian Catholic University will hold a round table discussion with other key Catholic agencies from across the health, education and social services sectors for the second Colloquium on Mission and Identity in Church-based organisations.
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News - International
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19-Mar-2008
A new survey on marriage reveals those who attend Mass every week are six times as likely as those who rarely or never attend to report that their view of marriage has been "very" informed by their Catholic faith.
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17-Mar-2008
One of the most influential women in the modern Catholic Church, Chiara Lubich, has died at the age of 88.
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18-Mar-2008
Negotiations are underway to build the first Catholic church in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah lending his support for its construction.
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17-Mar-2008
The Dalai Lama has called for an investigation into whether cultural genocide, intentional or not, was taking place in Tibet.
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Regulars
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19-Mar-2008
One of the "Big Two" Catholic super funds in Australia. The Catholic Super & Retirement Fund has its strengths among NSW and Queensland Catholic agencies and employees but since 2006 it has offered industry fund membership to the wider public.
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20-Mar-2008
They managed to persuade Nomo to stay and Fr Tomas washed his feet. Even though he was not baptised he proclaimed this message of love and service as he experienced it at the hands of a Catholic priest. - St Columban's Mission Society, Mission News
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19-Mar-2008
Through Lent we are called to recognise our need for healing and forgiveness, to recognise how our lack of compassion can continue to crucify the powerless, the ones who raise uncomfortable questions, the ones who challenge us to recognise the prejudice and self-righteousness that lurk in our hearts.
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18-Mar-2008
We have focused too much on the physical aspects of the crucifixion to the detriment of what was happening more deeply, underneath. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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17-Mar-2008
It seems the long-documented drift from established religions has not left generation Y godless, or at least has not left it lacking in spirit.
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20-Mar-2008
Waverley College is a Christian Brothers boys school with over 1,400 students located in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Opened in 1903 it has made a significant contribution to the spiritual, professional, academic, sporting and civic life of Sydney.
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18-Mar-2008
This is not so much a featured website but rather a brilliant feature on the Caritas Australia website. Select the Stations of the Cross - sharing the burden option on the homepage and you will view the Easter message from a different perspective.
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17-Mar-2008
This website was created to help individuals of all denominations and perspectives better understand the Catholic Faith.
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18-Mar-2008
Take a partially true story about a famous escapologist, Houdini, who has an obsession with his dead mother, and mix it with a beautiful psychic, who is attempting to defraud him, aided by a precocious daughter accomplice, and you have a mix of fact and fantasy that could go terribly wrong.
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17-Mar-2008
The Easter Sunday edition of Compass provides a program which explores the sometimes controversial, yet always interesting relationship, between faith and film.
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19-Mar-2008
Making an apperance away from his Sunday Nights program, John Cleary interviews US thinker Jim Wallis on Radio National for Good Friday. Over the past thirty years, Wallis has been preaching, teaching and writing about evangelical Christianity, not of the political right, but of the progressive left.
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20-Mar-2008
Mary, the sister of Martha, occurs in three scenes in the Gospels. At the start of Holy Week we read one of these in which she anoints Jesus' feet before his passion. In the other two, she is also situated at the feet of Jesus. All three offer us some ideas on attitudes we might adopt in Holy Week. - Fr Robin Koning, Province Express
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19-Mar-2008
Who speaks of the Cross today as a way to change the world? And yet isn't that precisely the methodology of the Gospel, the road to salvation, global transformation and peace? - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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18-Mar-2008
The costs to our country of educational under-achievement are astronomical. Research shows that single-sex schooling can reverse these trends and there are at least five essential arguments for governments to sponsor the development of single-sex schools. - Andrew Mullins, MercatorNet
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17-Mar-2008
In any consideration of "Celtic spirituality" one is immediately confronted by issues of terminology, in this case what is meant by the world "Celtic" and the word "spirituality".
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20-Mar-2008
The Church in the Holy Land depends on the worldwide Good Friday Appeal, undertaken as a collection at all Catholic services tomorrow, in order to survive financially and to maintain the fabric of over 70 Christian Holy sites and to support the daily livelihoods of oppressed local Christians.
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