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13-May-2008
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12-May-2008
Pontifical Council on Christian Unity head, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has warned the Anglican church that it "must clarify its identity" and make "difficult decisions" ahead of its forthcoming Lambeth Conference.
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News
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16-May-2008
A US Coast Guard officer who refused to be injected with a vaccine derived from the remains of an aborted child has won an exemption from the required vaccination.
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13-May-2008
Western Australian Therese Temby has been appointed as the new chair of the National Catholic Education Commission to replace long serving Monsignor Tom Doyle who has retired after 35 years in Catholic education.
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12-May-2008
Quarantining welfare payments in indigenous communities fails to address the real issues putting children at risk and undermines people's sense of responsibility, according to Catholic Social Services Australia Executive Director, Frank Quinlan.
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16-May-2008
Pope Benedict yesterday thanked consecrated virgins for their "total gift" to Christ encouraging them to "always irradiate the dignity of being the wife of Christ."
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15-May-2008
Italy's highest criminal court has ordered a retrial for two former Vatican Radio officials after quashing their earlier acqittal on charges of environmental pollution allegedly caused by a transmission tower.
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15-May-2008
Vatican Observatory Director Fr Jose Gabriel Funes says there is no opposition between Catholic teaching and believing in the possible existence of extraterrestrial life.
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13-May-2008
In an address marking the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Pope Benedict has reaffirmed the "intrinsic value" of Church teaching while Cherie Blair, Catholic wife of former British PM Tony Blair, has revealed that the couple's seven year old son was conceived because she left their "contraceptive equipment" behind.
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12-May-2008
The Vatican website has introduced a section in Latin which will publish the official original editions of pontifical documents.
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14-May-2008
Preparations for World Youth Day have stepped up a notch with a letter drop to half a million Sydney homes and the release of a commemorative colour coin of the Pope.
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14-May-2008
Catholic Mission has thanked Australians for their continued generosity and compassion in trying economic times as it raised a record $14.1 million in the past 12 months. It is the sixth year in a row the organisation has surpassed the funds raised in the preceding year.
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14-May-2008
Describing the situation in Burma as "overwhelming", Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot has appealed to the Catholic community "for as much help as possible".
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13-May-2008
Retired Sydney auxiliary Bishop Geoffrey Robinson is "uncertain" about Christ's authority and knowledge and his recently published book "casts doubt" on Church teaching, according to a statement by the Australian Catholic bishops.
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15-May-2008
Australian Bishops' delegate for immigration issues, Bishop Joseph Grech, has welcomed the Federal Government's budget announcement that it will abandon Temporary Protection Visas for refugees.
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14-May-2008
Robin Hood may have fired his first arrow, Vinnies head, Dr John Falzon said, welcoming a move in Treasurer Wayne Swan's first budget to overhaul a "punitive Centrelink breaching regime."
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12-May-2008
Australian Catholic University has announced that starting in 2009 it will base its selection of students on their involvement in cultural, sporting and religious activities including volunteering as well as on academic performance.
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News - National
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15-May-2008
South-east Asia veteran, Fr Steve Curtin, will take over in July from Fr Mark Raper as the new provincial for the Australian Jesuits.
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15-May-2008
Melbourne parish priest, Fr Noel Brady, has launched a protest against unsightly supermarket trolleys left abandoned in streets for up to three months.
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12-May-2008
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has attacked the Victorian government for its failure to increase funding for Catholic schools while boosting support for public schools by $1.3 billion and raising state teachers' annual salaries by $5,000.
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15-May-2008
The University of Queensland's Newman Society has been placed on "probation" by the student union for displaying a photo of an eight week fetus in the womb.
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16-May-2008
Sydney archdiocese policy officer, Dr Brigid McKenna, has welcomed a decision by the Western Australian Legislative Council to reject cloning as a victory for "commonsense science and morality."
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14-May-2008
Commenting on changes in the liturgy introduced in Australia over the Pentecost weekend, Canberra Archbishop Mark Coleridge says that work remains to discern the successes and failures of Vatican II liturgical reform.
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News - International
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16-May-2008
With US lenders threatening to repossess 650,000 homes in the first quarter of 2008, Catholic parishes are mobilising to offer assistance to mortgage distressed homeowners.
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14-May-2008
A US Catholic high school principal has sued Facebook after pranksters set up a fake profile for him on the popular social networking website.
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12-May-2008
A US company is talking up a new environmentally friendly method of destroying human corpses by alkaline hydrolysis which dissolves bodies into a sterile coffee coloured liquid but a Church spokesperson says the process is "undignified."
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14-May-2008
A Catholic social worker credited with saving over 2,500 Polish Jewish children from Nazi death camps during World War II has died at 98.
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14-May-2008
A devout Catholic teenager died in his brother's arms at a London bakery after being slashed across the throat after he refused to be goaded into a fight with his assailant.
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13-May-2008
Three Catholic dioceses in the southern Philippines province of Mindanao are mobilising their flocks for a protest against a mine in which an Australian company is a junior partner.
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12-May-2008
At least two priests and several sisters are among the ten of thousands of Burmese killed by Cyclone Nargis, a Salesian priest says, with many churches and related projects also badly damaged.
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13-May-2008
As Israel nears the 60th anniversary of its foundation, Pope has recognised its legitimate security and defence needs but called on the middle eastern state to lift travel restrictions on Christians in the Holy Land.
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Regulars
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16-May-2008
It is time for this country to build new relationships and to be open to future possibilities, we commit ourselves to deep, on-going dialogue with our indigenous sisters and brothers on further ways of moving forward. - Fr Mark Raper, Pathways
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15-May-2008
The Feast of Pentecost raises issues that can drive us to the streets to demand justice and peace. It carries social, economic and political consequences. It takes up the ultimate spiritual questions, and so deals with life and death realities. But when I look around, I wonder: if such is true, do we really desire the Holy Spirit to come? - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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14-May-2008
As conflict continues to flare in Democratic Republic of the Congo, the rape of women and young girls has long been used as a tactic by militia to force villagers from their homes and tear down the social fabric of the community. - ReliefWeb
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13-May-2008
The insertion of long acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation. - Melinda Tankard Reist, MercatorNet
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12-May-2008
Since Pope John Paul II launched World Youth Day 22 years ago, it has become the Olympic Games of world religion, the largest and most complex spiritual event held on a recurring basis across the globe. One part worship and one part Woodstock, the youth oriented festival is designed to offer a rocking rebuttal to impressions that Catholicism is sliding toward oblivion. - John Allen, Sydney Morning Herald
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16-May-2008
This is the website of one of the best known Catholic priests in the western world. Fr Rolheiser is best known through his writings and lecturing on spirituality and prising open the Word in such a clear, beautiful and heart-inspiring style.
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15-May-2008
Daily Prayer Online is a website that can be used by the busy professional for just a few moments each day or by others with more time for reflection. Key features include its thought for the day; post a pray; and daily Bible readings and Gospel reflections; as well as its prayers for the classroom.
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14-May-2008
Only released yesterday to much fanfare, this is the website the De La Salle Brothers describe as an "unprecedented website that details intimately the life of a brother." With an overt vocations focus, its aims to speak directly to youth and de-mystify the work and life of the brothers whilst offering insight and inspiration to those who may consider it as a life choice.
In a bold new approach for a religious or der, it tackles tough questions around vows such as poverty, celibacy, and living in community, with a frequently asked questions section and an interactive personality quiz that helps an interested applicant ascertain their suitability to this life. There is extensive information on the two year training process involved and inspiring work experience opportunities in remote communities across Western Australia and Papua New Guinea, which provide a real sense of th
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13-May-2008
Toowoomba Catholic Education's website provides a range of information associated with the operations of the 35 schools and some 9,000 students in systemic Catholic schools throughout southern Queensland.
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12-May-2008
May is a month of devotion to Our Lady often best expressed through the Rosary. This website is encouraging people not just to pray the Rosary in their homes, but to take the pray with others to the street.
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16-May-2008
Based on a 2004 Thai film of the same name, Shutter is an American/Japanese production. If you can take the shocks and violence of this genre, this film is worth the admission price for the cinematography alone. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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13-May-2008
Then She Found Me is a modest film which keeps the focus on deeply flawed characters trying to find the secret to happiness. By the film's end it presents answers that most Christians know are popular but in the long term quite inadequate. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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12-May-2008
A television program devoted to showcasing people living with a disability is indeed a rare find in our commercialised world and its quest for perfection.
No Limits looks at living life to the fullest with a disability, featuring stories about workshops on UN dignity and rights of people with disabilities, disability standards in education, disability legislation and much more.
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14-May-2008
This week's program features an extensive profile on the man behind World Youth Day, Sydney Bishop Anthony Fisher. His fellow Dominican's describe him as one of the sharpest minds in English-speaking Catholicism.
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16-May-2008
During the transformation of Irish society from a largely rural and agricultural economy to an industrialised one there occurred a failure of imagination in the Irish Church. - Fr Oliver Rafferty, The Catholic Herald
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15-May-2008
There is much to be celebrated in the Rudd Government's first Budget, but also many questions left to be answered. This budget may mark a turning point. It may mark a shift towards a fairer more inclusive Australia. - Frank Quinlan, Eureka Street
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14-May-2008
Australia's largest churches have been at least 20 years behind broader society in genuinely responding to the ecological crisis, and their success in matching their deeds to their words ranges from saintly to patchy to sometimes downright slothful. - Dr Steve Douglas, Sydney Morning Herald
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13-May-2008
We only really grasp the essence of another after he or she has gone away. When someone leaves us physically, we are given the chance to receive their presence in a deeper way. And the pain and heartache we feel in the farewell are birth pangs, the stretching that comes with giving new birth. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, Western Catholic Reporter
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12-May-2008
Without other standards of human flourishing to counteract those communicated on billboards and in advertising, the young members of some communities are deprived of all sources of self-esteem and respect. Unable to hope for those signs of success which the consumerist environment holds up for our emulation, young men in particular can be without resources to resist the message given them that they are failures, nonentities, nothing. - Thinking Faith
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15-May-2008
President of Sydney's Campion College, Fr John Fleming shares his "conversion" story from Anglican to Catholic priest. Be inspired by his courageous transfomation and his message to value our faith as a truth which invites deeper commitment.
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