News
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09-May-2008
A five month old girl died yesterday after the child's mother left her in the family car while she collected her other children from a Toowoomba Catholic school.
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08-May-2008
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone and retired Sydney Bishop Geoff Robinson have backed a call for Pope Benedict to make an apology during his WYD trip to Australia for abuse by clergy.
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07-May-2008
Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo says that proclaiming Mary as "spiritual mother of all humanity" and "co-redemptrix with Jesus the redeemer" would aid not hinder inter-religious dialogue.
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06-May-2008
Addressing his first plenary meeting of Australia's bishops new Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Guiseppe Lazzarotto, has exhorted bishops to "discerning reflection" and "pastoral sensitivity" in exercising their ministry.
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06-May-2008
ACBC Secretary Fr Brian Lucas and Casino priest Fr Peter Slack have combined with Sydney lawyer William d'Alpice to publish a guide to church administration.
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06-May-2008
As the confirmed death toll from a cyclone and associated tidal wave in Burma passes 22,000, Catholic and other aid agencies are scrambling to deliver immediate relief to tens of thousands of isolated victims.
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08-May-2008
The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified in October this year to coincide with the 30th anniversary of his election to the papacy, a Polish newspaper predicts.
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06-May-2008
China's Philharmonic Orchestra is to play for Pope Benedict at the Vatican in a special performance that has been heralded as possibly signalling a new stage of "sing song" diplomacy between the Chinese government and the Holy See.
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09-May-2008
Support groups for victims of clerical abuse are joining together to hold protests during Pope Benedict's Australian visit.
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08-May-2008
Pope Benedict will text messages to participants at this year's World Youth Day event in Sydney, organisers have announced.
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06-May-2008
Dismissing reports half of Sydney's iconic Hyde Park will need to close for 3 months after World Youth Day, Deputy Lord Mayor Tony Pooley said the city could not be a global city "unless we occasionally invite the bloody globe here."
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09-May-2008
Muslims must defend religious freedom if dialogue between Christianity and Islam is to progress, a German Jesuit expert on Islam has said.
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06-May-2008
In a bid to prevent "posthumous rebaptism" by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy has directed bishops' conferences to stop allowing Mormon genealogists access to parish baptism records.
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09-May-2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd cited a St Vincent de Paul Society proposal for community hubs in his 2020 Summit summary, Vinnies president Dr John Falzon says.
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06-May-2008
In a submission to a Senate inquiry, Adelaide archdiocese has called for controversial chef Gordon Ramsay to be taken off air for his foul language.
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09-May-2008
Notre Dame University Vice Chancellor Dr Peter Tannock has received a prestigious award, the Christus Magister Medal, from an American university.
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05-May-2008
Northern Territory coroner Greg Cavanagh has found a Catholic school principal and the Northern Territory Catholic Education Office knew a tree that later killed a nine year old Darwin boy, Aidan Bott, was dangerous but "did not do anything".
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News - National
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08-May-2008
Melbourne's iconic Skipping Girl Vinegar neon sign in Richmond was inspired by a five year old girl who later became a nun.
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06-May-2008
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry who defended executed drug courier Van Nguyen has received an honorary doctorate from Australian Catholic University.
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07-May-2008
More than a dozen parishes in Sydney's south are now using security firms to pickup Sunday collections after a spate of thefts at suburban churches.
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05-May-2008
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has announced a $10,000 funding boost for Mt Isa support services after a local Catholic parish reported an influx of homeless people from the Northern Territory to escape government intervention policies.
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05-May-2008
Skateboarding children are believed to have started a $150,000 fire at a Gold Coast Catholic school on Sunday but the blaze could have been much worse if other children had not alerted them, firefighters say.
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06-May-2008
Catholic teachers are "morally obligated" to join teachers from public schools at a rally in favour of higher salaries, an independent teachers' union official said yesterday.
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News - International
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07-May-2008
A Brookings Insitution analyst has linked older white Catholics to a surge in support for Senator Hillary Clinton ahead of crucial primary battles against rival Senator Barack Obama.
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06-May-2008
A French diocese has officially recognised a shrine in an alpine village where Our Lady is believed to have appeared to a 17th century shepherd girl.
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05-May-2008
An Italian mother has died of cancer after refusing treatment that could have harmed her unborn child.
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09-May-2008
At least 45 people are dead after a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Brazilian Pentecost festival capsized on a remote Amazon tributary.
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06-May-2008
A Brazilian rancher has been acquitted of the murder of Brazilian environmental activist Sr Dorothy Stang following a retrial.
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05-May-2008
Rosemary Sibanda, who was at the centre of an adultery storm with former Bulawayo Archbishop Pius Ncube, has died in a Zimbabwe hospital reportedly of pneumonia.
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05-May-2008
China's ancient capital, Nanjing, is about to become the bible printing centre of the world with the opening of a press capable of producing one million copies of the Bible per month.
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Regulars
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09-May-2008
We live in a linked-up world! We might not think about the links very much but they are there. There are the physical links likes pipes, wires, roads and railway lines. There are radio and televisions links and the World Wide Web. There are other kinds of links in our life too, such as marriage and family links, school and town links, national links, worldwide links. People even speak of being linked with others in a "global village". - Fr John Martin, The Majellan
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08-May-2008
St Columban's Mission Society might not be as much in the public eye as Vegemite but a product of its missionary activities shares a couple of things in common with Australia's food icon. - The Far East
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07-May-2008
We spent over 40 years dismantling our historically rooted notion of Church, only to replace it with modernist examples of generic art and architecture that reflected the generic chaos of the contemporised period and neglected to appreciate the transcendent nature of all of our Catholic signs and symbols. - Hugh McNichol, Catholic Online
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06-May-2008
It may have outsold every other book in history and continue to top bestseller lists around the world, but according to a major survey held across nine nations in the northern hemisphere, in the West these days the Bible is hardly ever opened by most people. - The Tablet
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05-May-2008
Mary’s spirituality is about relationship. Right from the start, Mary was in relationship with God, with Joseph, with Jesus, and with numerous others whose lives she would have touched. - Anne Dooley, Terra Spiritus
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09-May-2008
Another week passes and another Catholic social networking site pops up on the web. CathCommunity.org is an initiative of the England and Wales Catholic Bishops' Conference and was launched only two days ago. It is designed as a forum where people can explore their faith, be challenged by those who disagree and dispel myths about Catholicism.
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08-May-2008
Operating 26 health care facilities throughout four Australian states and two territories, Little Company of Mary Health Care is a Catholic organisation with a reputation for values based care and support for those who are sick, dying and in need.
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07-May-2008
Launching only this week, Soulfoodcinema is a Catholic website that has the aim of educating and evangelising through the medium of the movies. It differs from other faith and film sites, in that the focus is on providing education and insights for those that are curious after having watched a film, rather than providing extensive ratings and reviews for those that are curious before watching a film.
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06-May-2008
After two years of planning, the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane has just launched its new website. The website, substantially remodelled from its former organisational and news/event focus, now adds new portals for those seeking to know about Christian beliefs or information about many aspects of everyday Catholic life.
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05-May-2008
St Leo's College within the University of Queensland was founded in 1917 and is the Catholic male residential college at the university.
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09-May-2008
The title of this film plays with the common and contemporary throwaway line, "what happens on tour stays on tour." The idea that we can become a different moral person away from home without any effect on our daily lives is as naive as it is immoral. We are our behaviour at home or on tour, and, in a sense, our integrity is more to be judged when we think no one is looking then when we are under the usual scrutiny. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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06-May-2008
Each of the nine lives has a chapter heading focussing on one of the women and providing them with an opportunity for a tour-de-force performance. Each of the segments is around ten minutes. One of them is a one take piece in a supermarket. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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05-May-2008
Find out what life is like under Hamas and explore the religious yet militant organisation's move from international pariah to meaningful political player.
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07-May-2008
This week's Encounter program explores themes of faith, depression, and the interaction between the two. Is there a possibility that religious faith could help people who are depressed, or does religion only make people more depressed?
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09-May-2008
We do not primarily come to the Eucharist in order to derive pleasure out of it for ourselves. We come to give ourselves to God no matter what it costs. We are not seeking our own pleasure but, like Jesus, both in worship and outside of worship, we always try to do what pleases the Father rather than what pleases ourselves. - Fr John Kelly, Marist Messenger
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08-May-2008
We judge books partly by their content but even more by their voice. Writers of another age speak oddly. They stop to reflect on what we slip lightly past, acquiesce in what we find outrageous. - Fr Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
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07-May-2008
The idea that your spouse is your soul mate is a very individual-focused way of looking at marriage. Thinking of your marriage as a vocation within the Catholic community may offer the community support that a long term relationship needs. - Dr Christine Whelan, Busted Halo
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06-May-2008
Boxing people makes life so much easier. We don't have to waste time with them because they don't fit into the world we inhabit, the very large box labelled "me". - Richard Flynn, The Southern Cross
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05-May-2008
I am a "Brothers' Boy". Yes, the major part of my education, especially at the secondary level, was in the hands of the Christian Brothers, and I want to tell you about it. - Fr Gerard Dowling, Kairos Catholic Journal
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08-May-2008
Join thousands of other Catholics on the Walk with Christ procession through the streets of Sydney in celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi on Sunday May 25. The Bishops of Sydney will lead the procession holding aloft the Blessed Sacrament.
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