News
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24-Apr-2008
WA Premier Alan Carpenter will tomorrow present a replica of the Villers-Bretonneux cross from Perth's St George's Anglican Cathedral to the Catholic Church of St John the Baptist in the Somme village liberated by ANZAC troops on the night of 25 April 1918.
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23-Apr-2008
The head of the schismatic Society of St Pius X says that "nothing has changed" in Rome's determination to follow Vatican II despite Pope Benedict's recent re-authorisation of the Tridentine Mass.
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23-Apr-2008
The Church is "a dictatorship not a democracy", Bishop Terence Brady is reported to have told a parishioner from Fairfield in Sydney's west after 800 people signed a petition not to replace a popular parish priest.
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21-Apr-2008
Pope Benedict XVI has spoken publicly for the first time about his involvement in the Hitler Youth during his teenage years under the Nazis at a youth rally in New York.
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21-Apr-2008
The Vatican may consider changing canon laws that govern how sexual abuse cases are handled in the future.
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21-Apr-2008
Famed convert to Catholicism, Cardinal John Henry Newman is set to be beatified later this year according to a report in the Times Online.
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24-Apr-2008
Organisers have released the score to Our Lady of the Southern Cross, a specially composed hymn to be sung at the Vigil with Pope Benedict at World Youth Day Sydney in July.
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22-Apr-2008
In a bid to recruit 3,000 volunteers and 10,000 host families for World Youth Day in July, organisers are letterboxing half a million Sydney homes.
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24-Apr-2008
Townsville ecumenism expert Bishop Michael Putney says the forthcoming ordination of Australia's first female bishop for the Anglican diocese of Perth will "deepen the obstacle" to reconciliation between the Catholic and Anglican communions.
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24-Apr-2008
Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have joined other Christian leaders in an appeal for a solution to the worsening crisis in the Southern African nation.
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22-Apr-2008
Former Divine Word missionary and retired bishop, Fernando Lugo, has been elected president of Paraguay ending more than 60 years rule by the Colorado Party.
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22-Apr-2008
Students at St Patrick's College, Mackay, North Queensland are being counselled after alleged cyber bullying incidents in which students ranked themselves according to looks, weight and popularity.
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21-Apr-2008
The Victorian Government is looking at aligning Catholic schools in the state with the public system in what could be the one of the biggest shake-ups in schooling for generations.
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News - National
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23-Apr-2008
Catholic Health Australia Francis Sullivan and Sydney Catholic Education CEO Br Kelvin Canavan have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Australian Catholic University.
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23-Apr-2008
Youth Off the Streets founder Fr Chris Riley says that he could not get a mention for the subject of child abuse at last weekend's 2020 Summit and accused summit facilitators of pushing their own agendas.
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21-Apr-2008
The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Philip Wilson, has said he was privileged to attend Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2020 Summit that took place in Canberra over the weekend.
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23-Apr-2008
Described as a "flawed genius", Society of St Vincent de Paul Australia founder, Captain Charles Gordon O'Neill, has been rediscovered following the publication of a biography of the Irish engineer and architect, who also designed plans for a Sydney harbour tunnel.
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22-Apr-2008
St John of the Cross Church at Grafton on the NSW North Coast has been gutted by fire after vandals torched and trashed the historic local building.
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News - International
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24-Apr-2008
Worshippers crowded Dili's Catholic cathedral for a Mass of thanksgiving and forgiveness after the recovery of President Jose Ramos Horta who has returned to East Timor following treatment in Darwin.
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24-Apr-2008
A shell fired by rebel National Liberation Forces has struck the Holy See nunciature during an attack on Burundi's national capital of Bujumbura.
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21-Apr-2008
A nine year Melbourne boy suffering from cancer has been blessed by Pope Benedict during an intimate ceremony in New York.
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22-Apr-2008
A well-known Sri Lankan human rights defender and Catholic priest, Fr MX Karunaratnam, has been killed by a bomb allegedly detonated by government soldiers who in turn blame Tamil rebel forces.
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23-Apr-2008
Helicopters and fishing boats have resumed a search for a Brazilian priest who disappeared after the helium balloons that took him aloft in a fundraising attempt to break a record drifted over the Atlantic Ocean.
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22-Apr-2008
Pro-life advocate and Pontifical Council for the Family head, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo has died at a Rome hospital after a short illness.
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Regulars
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24-Apr-2008
Hopelessness assaults us from all sides. When a culture no longer looks to the eternal God, it starts looking to this passing world, and it passes. - Mark Shea, National Catholic Register
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23-Apr-2008
The future not only for religious but for all God's people rests in a deeper, mystical understanding of the Trinitarian relationship so that the Kingdom of God may be on earth as it is in heaven. - Pathways
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22-Apr-2008
At sunrise on Monday May 5 2008, Melbourne Catholic school teacher Michael Mitchell will get up and go for a bush walk that will take him 13 months to complete. Leaving from Cape York, the northernmost tip of Queensland, and trekking through three states and the nation’s capital, Michael expects to arrive at the southernmost tip of the mainland at Wilsons Promontory in June 2009. - Kairos Catholic Journal
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21-Apr-2008
Evidence suggests a blooming of youth Catholic orthodoxy. These young, devout Catholics share an appreciation for orthodox theology, self-sacrifice and fidelity to church teaching. - International Herald Tribune
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24-Apr-2008
Catholic Health Australia is the largest non-government provider grouping of health, community and aged care services in Australia representing nearly 700 Catholic health care sponsors, facilities, and related organisations and services.
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23-Apr-2008
If every Catholic website had the same quality of images and design as the new website for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Office for the Participation of Women, then there would be a lot more people visiting Catholic websites!
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22-Apr-2008
This website is the gateway for the Catholic Church in Australia. It has recently undergone a makeover which affirms its position as the premier Catholic portal in the country.
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21-Apr-2008
Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church with over 500 recognised members in Australia. Founded by St Josemaría Escrivá, its mission is to help people turn their work and daily activities into occasions for growing closer to God, for serving others, and for improving society.
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22-Apr-2008
Broken Sun intends to be absorbed rather like a poem, with spiritual and peaceful ambitions. The deliberate pace, the sometimes filtered cinematography, and the sparse dialogue, combine to create the film's mood of regret. Regret for violence, for killing, for friends lost and for the way the Japanese military honour code infected men with a false sense of shame for being prisoners. - Urban Cinefile
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21-Apr-2008
May 1 is the feast of St Joseph the Worker and MacKillop's Melbourne reflects on the early life of an Australian woman who found the foster-father of Jesus such an inspiring figure that she named her congregation, the Sisters of St Joseph.
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23-Apr-2008
One of the leading Church identities in the United States who drew attention to the abuse crisis, describes his reaction to the papal apology. Fr Tom Doyle talks about this "break through moment" for the American Church.
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24-Apr-2008
Pakistani Muslims must decide for themselves whether Islam can be lived in the reality of 21st century Pakistan or only according to the standards of 7th century Arabia. Pakistani Muslims must decide for themselves whether the fundamentalist call to jihad has any basis in their religion. - Fr Robert McCulloch, St Columban's Mission Society
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23-Apr-2008
Americans tend to intertwine religion, patriotism and guns with their politics in sometimes curious ways and can react strongly if they perceive that any of these cultural icons are under threat. - Fr Paul Brian Campbell, Thinking Faith
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22-Apr-2008
The greatest challenge facing the Church today is to find a way to express Christian faith within the context of the gospel's power to transform culture. This requires a broad and deep analysis of the culture in order to distinguish authentic developments of the gospel-inspired way of life from those aspects of the culture that negate the gospel. - James McEvoy, Eureka Street
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21-Apr-2008
One of the deeper issues underlying the tension between liberals and conservatives in the Church is the tension between the Christ who empties himself to become a slave and the Christ who rises in triumph over death and rules the world. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, Western Catholic Reporter
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24-Apr-2008
Archbishop Pell talks at the Brisbane Institute about his new book, God and Caesar: Selected essays on Religion,Politics and Society. It brings together a selection of his writings on Christianity, politics, and society from the last ten years. Drawing on a deep knowledge of history and human affairs, the essays pinpoint the key issues facing Christians and non-believers in determining the future of modern democratic life.
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