News
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28-Mar-2008
Australia's Catholic bishops are headed for a clash with the AFL and Cricket Australia after the ACBC backed a proposal to ban TV alcohol advertising before 9pm.
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27-Mar-2008
Arguing that missionaries looked after Aboriginal children "better than the government", Northern Territory indigenous leader, Galarrwuy Yunupingu has called for "missionary-style dormitories" where children could be fed, clothed and cleaned.
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26-Mar-2008
Nuns close to former Philippines President Cory Aquino have vowed to "storm the gates of heaven" with their prayers after Mrs Aquino was diagnosed with cancer of the colon.
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27-Mar-2008
Denying suggestions of a drop in expected pilgrim numbers for Sydney's World Youth Day in July, WYD08 chief Danny Casey said that while more than 168,000 people have now registered, organisers have long anticipated that not all hopeful pilgrims would be able to make it to the event.
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28-Mar-2008
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone has urged all members of the Catholic community to get behind tomorrow's Earth Hour lights off.
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27-Mar-2008
Catholic Super has been named among the top five Australian superannuation funds for environmental and social credentials, a ratings agency has announced.
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26-Mar-2008
Australia is facing an "avalanche of homelessness", according to St Vincent de Paul Queensland executive, Brian Moore, who says the housing situation is the worst he has seen in over 40 years experience.
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News - National
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28-Mar-2008
National shopping chains Myer and ALDI have announced the introduction of six to fourteen weeks paid maternity leave for their staff, still far below the benchmark of one year's paid leave offered by Australian Catholic University.
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26-Mar-2008
In a letter released ahead of today's Council of Australian Governments meeting, Catholic Social Services chief, Frank Quinlan, has launched an appeal to prioritise social inclusion in all policy areas.
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28-Mar-2008
Four weddings planned for this weekend have been rescheduled after fire severely damaged St Paul's Church, Coburg in Melbourne's north last night.
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News - International
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27-Mar-2008
As controversy continues to rage over the Easter baptism of a prominent Italian Egyptian-born Muslim, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, has announced plans to launch a dialogue between Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
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26-Mar-2008
Addressing pilgrims in his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Easter message, Pope Benedict has launched a new appeal for peace in the "tormented Middle East" as well as Darfur, Somalia and Tibet.
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28-Mar-2008
A Catholic teachers union in the US diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania will appeal to the Holy See Congregation for Education after local Bishop Joseph F. Martino refused to negotiate with it.
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28-Mar-2008
Australia could one day have a Catholic monarch after UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown signalled that he would consider abolishing the 300 year old Act of Settlement which forbids UK monarchs from becoming or marrying Catholics.
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27-Mar-2008
Following a visit to Assisi where he was reported to have prayed at the tomb of St Francis, perestroika father and former USSR president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has denied rumours that he is secretly a Catholic.
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27-Mar-2008
Companions of a Pakistani nun who has survived a life-threatening knife attack near Lahore say they now better understand the situation faced by women in that country.
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26-Mar-2008
In a tearful television interview recorded just before his departure for Rome, retired Zimbabwe Archbishop Pius Ncube has admitted adultery but also spoken out strongly against abuses by the Mugabe government.
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26-Mar-2008
Rosary reciting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has credited Our Lady's intercession with averting war with Ecuador and Venezuela after he prayed to her under her titles as patroness of each of the three neighbouring South American countries.
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Regulars
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28-Mar-2008
The $150 million price tag does not include disruptions to the normal running of the city. The Sydney Harbour Bridge will be closed for a mammoth 12 hours for the pilgrims' walk from North Sydney across to Randwick to listen to Pope Benedict XVI conduct a vigil mass. - Jennifer Mills, New Matilda
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27-Mar-2008
DANIEL Wells always knew there was more to life than football but the clear impression is that both life and football were altered irrevocably for him four years ago when he met and fell in love with Mariangela Laudato, the woman who would become his wife and introduce him to Catholicism. - Caroline Wilson, Real Footy
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26-Mar-2008
Once something seriously goes wrong, it is more difficult to recover from the damage once the organisation's reputation has taken a serious blow. A scandal can become the feeding ground for gleeful sharks who can raise the stakes and go over the organisation's activities with a fine tooth comb. - Good Business, Edmund Rice Centre
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28-Mar-2008
Founded in the late 1800's by religious sisters from the Faithful Companions of Jesus and named after an Italian town noted for pilgrims to Our Lady of Good Counsel, Genazzano FCJ College is a Catholic girls school located in Melbourne's inner-eastern suburbs.
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27-Mar-2008
This is the national website of the St Vincent de Paul Society, an organisation which has been incessant in raising concerns about the "avalanche" of homelessness currently besetting the nation. One of its major fundraisers, the Annual Winter Appeal is due to kick-off in just over a month.
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26-Mar-2008
This website belongs to the Queensland branch of the Royal School of Church Music Australia, a national church music association. It seeks to represent a national voice in church music and to develop cooperative and formal links with major church bodies. RSCM Australia's goal is to put people with an interest in church music in touch with each other for mutual support and encouragment within an ecumencial environment.
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28-Mar-2008
This is the kind of film that "sophisticated" types look down their noses at and they will do so with this one. Risking lack of sophistication, I found myself enjoying 10,000 BC much more than expected - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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26-Mar-2008
Encounter this week explores how concepts of social justice, equality and inclusiveness helped shape the values of two remarkable medical workers - pediatrician and health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley and burns surgeon and Clinical Professor Fiona Wood.
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28-Mar-2008
Like nationalism, religion can play a reactionary or a progressive role, and the struggle is now within it, not against it. For the future, it can be an ally of radical change. - Seumas Milne, The Guardian
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27-Mar-2008
A lady rang me recently seeking advice on what to do about people in her parish who talked in church before and after Mass. When considering this issue, it is important to keep in mind that the church building is not a hall or auditorium, but a complex of spaces for different but interrelated functions. - Elizabeth Harrington, Liturgy Lines
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26-Mar-2008
What the risen Jesus might be like or indeed what it might be like for anyone to survive death, is very far from clear. The question does have very religious overtones but in fact some of the most difficult problems are not specifically religious problems at all. They are problems with the deepest levels of our picture of ourselves and our place in the material world. - Fr Gerard Hughes, Thinking Faith
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27-Mar-2008
Catholic Schools Week in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory commences this Sunday and runs until Friday April 4. This year's theme for the week is Learning in Action.
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