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04-Apr-2008
Over 1,000 people gathered in Newcastle's Christ Church Anglican cathedral on Wednesday to welcome the signing of a historic covenant on ecumenical cooperation between the Anglican diocese of Newcastle and the Catholic dioceses of Maitland-Newcastle and Broken Bay.
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04-Apr-2008
As peace protesters gathered outside the Westminster Cathedral venue, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his first major speech since leaving Parliament, touted the capacity of faith organisations to have a global impact for good.
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03-Apr-2008
The Sydney archdiocese has denied speculation of a rift between Cardinal George Pell and the former director of the archdiocese's Liturgy office, Fr Timothy Deeter, who resigned his position recently.
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02-Apr-2008
An inquiry by Justice Ted Mullighan into abuse of South Australian children placed in state care has identified sexual abuse of children over a 65 year period at two Catholic institutions as well as Anglican and Salvation Army facilities.
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01-Apr-2008
Victorian police are investigating a blaze last week at St Paul's Church Coburg which caused $2 million damage only a year after another fire destroyed the parish's community centre.
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01-Apr-2008
Spirituality is a major contributor to a child's happiness, even more than for adults, a Canadian study has found.
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31-Mar-2008
ACBC President Archbishop Philip Wilson and three Catholic priests, including former federal parliamentarian Michael Tate, are on the list of participants announced for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2020 Summit but it appears no female religious will attend the gathering.
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02-Apr-2008
Three years after the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2 2005, Vatican officials have submitted a 2,000 page report on the late pontiff's life to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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31-Mar-2008
For the first time in history, Muslims now outnumber Catholics and are now the world's biggest single religious denomination, figures published by L'Osservatore Romana reveal.
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02-Apr-2008
As crowds gathered in Wollongong to welcome the WYD Cross and Icon, local Bishop Peter Ingham compared the cross's journey to that of the Olympic torch in its ability to connect people across the world.
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31-Mar-2008
Young Sydney videographer, Alfio Stuto, will play the role of Jesus during the World Youth Day Stations of the Cross and veteran broadcaster Ray Martin will provide the TV commentary, WYD organisers have announced.
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31-Mar-2008
Bishop Ramon Villena has called on Philippines President Macapagal-Arroyo to suspend the operations of Australian miner, OceanaGold, as local officials near the Didipio mine site express fears of rice shortages in the wake of the company's land clearing operations.
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02-Apr-2008
In experiments that the Catholic Church has described as "monstrous", scientists at the UK's Newcastle University have created embryos from cow eggs and DNA extracted from human skin cells.
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04-Apr-2008
A Wollongong Catholic high school principal has backed a researcher's findings that later school start times could help overcome sleep deprivation among adolescent students.
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03-Apr-2008
Students arriving up to 30 minutes early for school are being required to sit in "quiet time" before classes commence as a result of insurance fears over injury in Catholic school playgrounds.
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News - National
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04-Apr-2008
Recreating a journey up the Hawkesbury River taken by Australia's founding fathers, twenty five young people will draft a "new Australian constitution" this weekend.
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03-Apr-2008
A draft lobbying code released by Special Minister of State, Senator John Faulkner, will not require churches or other tax-deductible charities to disclose details of their activities.
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02-Apr-2008
Photos of the last months of the life of six year old Melbourne Catholic school girl, Mia Judkins, who died of a stroke last year, have been lost after thieves stole a family computer storing the precious images.
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01-Apr-2008
A new ecclesial lay community for consecrated women, the Mary Star of the Sea community, was inaugurated last night at a service with Broken Bay Bishop David Walker.
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31-Mar-2008
The New South Wales Health Department will add a special link highlighting abstinence as a means of combating sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) for the duration of World Youth Day while NSW Minister Kristina Keneally touted the event as the ideal place to meet a life partner.
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03-Apr-2008
A taxi which attempted to get close to pick up a disabled passenger finished by becoming trapped at the top of a staircase at Brisbane's St Stephen's Cathedral.
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03-Apr-2008
The Vinnies' run Frederic Ozanam Housing Association will become the preferred housing provider for the Archdiocese of Adelaide under a preliminary agreement that could see parish properties leased or sold to provide affordable housing.
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News - International
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04-Apr-2008
A Pontifical Council for the Family assembly in Rome this weekend is highlighting the role of grandparents in keeping families together and in helping care for their grandchildren.
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04-Apr-2008
American Sr Claude Feldner, who took her first vows in 1912, has died in a Wisconsin nursing home at the age of 109.
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31-Mar-2008
Pope Benedict is a big fan of mozzarella cheese made from buffalo milk and eats it often, Italian newspapers report.
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31-Mar-2008
A traditionalist monastery of Spanish nuns has already been "regularised" and other groups are in process following Pope Benedict's liberalisation of the use of the Tridentine Mass, Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos says.
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28-Mar-2008
The first World Congress on Divine Mercy, organised principally by Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, opens in Rome tomorrow.
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03-Apr-2008
"Aggressive secularism" is gaining ground leaving Judaeo-Christian values as the only thing left binding British society together, Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has warned.
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01-Apr-2008
Plymouth priest, Fr Gerard Wilberforce, says that if his famous anti-slavery ancestor, William Wilberforce, were alive today he would certainly be fighting human trafficking and drugs but the issue of abortion would be at the top of his list.
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02-Apr-2008
Catholic international development agencies Trocaire and Progressio have called for immediate action to stop rigging of last weekend's Zimbabwe election results by Mugabe government officials.
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Regulars
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04-Apr-2008
We are in the unenviable position of being one of the few Australians to have a family member with the death penalty. It is sickening physically and debilitating mentally. When we look into our son’s eyes we can see the scared, frightened boy. It is heartbreaking and soul destroying. - Christine Rush, The Catholic Leader
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03-Apr-2008
Some people say it is not easy to have dialogue with Moslems. It is true. In practice, dialogue has never been easy and simple. However, it is not entirely impossible. An open and sincere heart and a willingness to listen will nourish the seeds of dialogue and help it grow. - Fr Greg Soetomo, Province Express
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02-Apr-2008
Eric Bogle believes his powerful song on the horrors of war And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda will be relevant as long as mankind keeps on fighting. - Chris McWilliams, The Southern Cross
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01-Apr-2008
Fr James FitzPatrick has been called, among other things, a "Saintmaker". He laughs at the suggestion, but acknowledges the term is sometimes used in newspaper headlines and material over which he has no control. - Rosie Hoban, Madonna
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31-Mar-2008
When asked, most people admit to having a spiritual side to their nature. The challenge, and the real secret of happiness, is to turn that spiritual side of our nature into the central core of our lives. Too often our spiritual side is pushed to the sidelines and forgotten, and our attitude to life suffers. - Julie Clague, Thinking Faith
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04-Apr-2008
John XXIII College is a Catholic coeducational school from Kindergarten to Year 12 based in the western Perth suburb of Mount Claremont. It commenced in 1977 following the amalgamation of Loreto Convent School and St Louis College.
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03-Apr-2008
Bordering three states in the far western regions of New South Wales, the Wilcannia-Forbes Catholic diocese ministers to over 30,000 Catholics across 20 parishes.
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02-Apr-2008
If you can put up with the slightly annoying flashing prompts, this website contains a fair bit of gold in terms of the resources it offers to the Catholic community. Founded in Cairns in 1993 the site's goal is to establish and maintain online an Australian audio treasure of Catholic prayers.
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01-Apr-2008
Faithtrip.net is a new social networking site for young Catholics with the bold intention to be a Catholic version of MySpace and Facebook. Founded by Church Resources, its aim is to establish a "virtual parish" that will connect the young faithful across the world.
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31-Mar-2008
The Australian province of the Divine Word Missionaries has a rich and interesting history which parrellels Australia's federation and our relationship with Papua New Guinea, an earlier missionary base for the order in the region.
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04-Apr-2008
Nim’s Island is a magical place ruled by a child’s imagination and the film deftly combines animated special effects and realism to engage the viewer.
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01-Apr-2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a very satisfying, magical adventure for all except the very young and the very impressionable. It has all the elements of fairytales and nightmares. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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31-Mar-2008
Screening before, and on the third anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, The Year Of Two Popes is an outstanding documentary which chronicles the last months of his life from Vatican's insiders who witnessed those extraordinary days first hand.
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02-Apr-2008
Australian Catholics and Anglicans across three major regions sign and celebrate an historic agreement this week that promises further and closer cooperation between their three dioceses. The four Bishops in Newcastle, Maitland-Newcastle and Broken Bay dioceses are meeting in Newcastle's Christchurch Anglican Cathedral together with their priests and people to build what were once unthinkable bridges across sectarian divides.
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04-Apr-2008
Those who put up a watertight barrier between science and religion miss a very important point. Science and religion do intersect in at least one point - in the human being who is the scientist, in the human being whose ultimate motivations and yearnings are, overtly or not, religious. - Fr Guy Consolmagno, Thinking Faith
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03-Apr-2008
The way moral perspectives on sexuality have dominated theology for centuries has belied the power of sexual loving to feed the soul. An oversimplified "right or wrong" stance regarding complex human experiences does no justice to some of the most pivotal spiritual experiences of any life. - Gordon Hilsman, National Catholic Reporter
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02-Apr-2008
Some theologians today are of the opinion that Christians should give up all attempts to missionise the Jews. Some go even further and think that there is no need to offer the Jews entry into the new covenant in Jesus Christ as God's covenant with the people of Israel was never revoked. - Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, The Tablet
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01-Apr-2008
Within the secret of life lies a great paradox - we only experience the true meaning of life when we are dying to ourselves and giving life away. - Fr Ron Rolheiser
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31-Mar-2008
Perhaps the hoarders point to a deeply ingrained, and anything but funny, pathology that is developing in our society, in which each of us is starting to value things more than people. It is becoming a given that having is more important than simply being. - Michael Mullins, Eureka Street
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03-Apr-2008
A public forum hosted by the Columban Mission Institute in conjunction with the City of Sydney, it will involve Christian and Muslim speakers sharing common convictions about peace and non-violence.
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