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11-Apr-2008
The Sisters of Mercy owned Fraynework Multimedia web design company has won Webby Awards - the Oscars of the World Wide Web - for two of its sites.
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10-Apr-2008
Days after the local bishop ordered the removal of a reputedly miraculous statue of Our Lady, a Sri Lanka shrine has been struck by bombs dropped from aircraft.
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10-Apr-2008
As he prepares to leave for his first visit as pontiff to the United States and to the United Nations, Pope Benedict has sent a message to American Catholics emphasising the need to work for peace, justice and freedom "in obedience to God's law".
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09-Apr-2008
German Cardinal Karl Lehmann says the Catholic Church must face up to its past after a newly published history revealed the Church in Germany used 1,000 prisoners of war and nearly 5,000 civilians as slave labourers in hospitals and monasteries during World War II.
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09-Apr-2008
Former Melbourne Archbishop Frank Little, who championed Vatican II reforms and confronted the Victorian state government over its "casino culture", died in his sleep on Monday night.
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08-Apr-2008
Victorian Br Peter Dowling has been elected to the Christian Brothers' international leadership team at the congregation's world chapter at Munmar in India.
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11-Apr-2008
St Benedict is a "shining star" who can lead Europe out of the current "dark night of history", Pope Benedict said in his talk on Wednesday.
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07-Apr-2008
In an effort to stem fears over a revised prayer in the Tridentine rite Mass that Jews will recognise Christ as Saviour, the Holy See has reaffirmed the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate's condemnation of anti-Semitism.
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08-Apr-2008
After a campaign for corporate sponsorship failed, the Sisters of St Joseph have introduced bookings and fees to cope with an expected 25,000 pilgrims per day who will visit the tomb of Blessed Mary MacKillop.
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08-Apr-2008
The New South Wales economy will receive a $231 million boost from the hosting of World Youth Day, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce has calculated, but Sydneysiders are also being warned to stay away from the city centre during the event which has been likened to "APEC and the Olympics combined".
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07-Apr-2008
With less than 100 days to go to World Youth Day, organisers have launched an appeal for 8,000 volunteers to welcome the 125,000 international visitors expected.
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11-Apr-2008
Liberal Party federal director, Brian Loughnane, has blamed Catholic former minister Tony Abbott's "Religious Right" agenda for contributing to the party's loss at last year's elections.
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11-Apr-2008
Queensland's Acting Premier Paul Lucas has announced that the government will move to ban sex shops near schools after the Whitsunday Regional Council said it was powerless to stop a sex shop from opening near a Proserpine Catholic school.
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10-Apr-2008
Sydney's Christian Brothers College Burwood will close its doors at the end of 2009 after enrolments for this year dipped below the critical 300 mark.
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08-Apr-2008
A painting by a famous Austrian artist depicting a homosexual orgy of the Apostles has been swifly removed from an exhibition at a museum at Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral but protest continues over other pictures said to portray a homoerotic vision of Christ's crucifixion.
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News - National
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09-Apr-2008
After 120 years of work and presence in the South Melbourne area, Loreto sisters are selling up their provincial convent in order to finance new projects in Australia and abroad.
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09-Apr-2008
Melbourne's Russian Catholic Centre is seeking new premises to house its mission of "maintaining dialogue" with the Orthodox churches, Archpriest Lawrence Cross says.
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07-Apr-2008
In a bid to highlight homelessness, the Melbourne-based Father Bob Maguire Foundation has launched an advertising campaign on CBD rubbish bins featuring a knife, fork and folded napkins arranged over the top of the bins.
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10-Apr-2008
Three ex-lawyers are among this year's batch of first year students at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary in Homebush.
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07-Apr-2008
Australia's oldest surviving Rugby League Test player, 92 year old Arch Crippin, was buried last week after a funeral service at Holy Name Catholic Church, Forster on the NSW North Coast.
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News - International
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07-Apr-2008
After ten years work, a team of UK calligraphers has presented Pope Benedict with a copy of the first illuminated handwritten Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in over 500 years.
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09-Apr-2008
Polish bishops have launched a campaign to exhume the heart of Pope John Paul II and bring it back to his home town of Cracow.
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09-Apr-2008
An Italian nun has saved an elderly man by using her habit to douse the flames after the man poured petrol over himself and struck a match.
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08-Apr-2008
Love always conquers death, Pope Benedict said yesterday at a service at the Rome Basilica of St Bartholomew commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the St Egidio Community.
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11-Apr-2008
A stand-off is continuing between Vietnamese police and Catholic demonstrators at Hanoi's Redemptorist seminary over protests concerning the recovery of Church land while state media has called for "drastic action" against protestors.
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11-Apr-2008
A Filipino priest has been electrocuted by a defective karaoke microphone after finishing a swim during a beach party.
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10-Apr-2008
Australian delegates including Federal Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, joined 200 participants at an intergovernment conference on interfaith cooperation for peace and harmony in Phnom Penh last week.
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08-Apr-2008
A Vietnamese Catholic from a Montagnard village has died in prison after being arrested and tortured by police, the Montagnard Foundation International has alleged.
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09-Apr-2008
Pope Benedict has appealed to Iraqis to embrace peace following the murder of a Syrian Orthodox priest.
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07-Apr-2008
Intensive shelling by government and rebel forces in Sri Lanka's war hit north has forced Catholics to move a 400 year old statue of Our Lady while the local bishop has called for Vatican diplomatic intervention.
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Regulars
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11-Apr-2008
The radical tide sweeping Latin America is moving into the obscurer creeks and backwaters of the continent. The isolated and unnoticed country of Paraguay is about to elect a red bishop as president, bringing to an end the rule of the Colorado party and its six decades of dictatorship and corruption. - Richard Gott, The Guardian
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10-Apr-2008
Pope Benedict has traveled to seven other countries since he was elected in 2005, but a papal journey to the Unites States is like no other because of the church's size and influence. In a nation founded by Protestants, Catholics comprise nearly one-quarter of the population and Catholic America is the biggest donor to the Vatican. - International Herald Tribune
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09-Apr-2008
We must let India know that the world is watching and that we disapprove of what is happening. Our brothers and sisters in Christ are vulnerable and in danger. As a minority, they have no voice. State politicians in the Kandhamal district are looking the other way while innocent people are being intimidated and brutalised. - Dr Mark Adamski, Aurora
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08-Apr-2008
The vehemence with which appeals to sentiment are rejected in public life is constantly surprising. Symbolic gestures that involve the heart, like the apology to the Stolen Generations, are often seen as a substitute for practical action. - Fr Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
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07-Apr-2008
For much of her life, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was regarded as a prophetic if somewhat marginal figure in the American Catholic Church. Her combination of traditional piety and her radical stance on social and political issues posed a paradox for many people. - Robert Ellsberg, The Tablet
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11-Apr-2008
Mazenod College celebrated its 40th anniversary last year and is a Catholic secondary college for boys in the middle south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. An archdiocesan college, it is under the care of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
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10-Apr-2008
This week marked a milestone for World Youth Day 2008 as it passed under 100 days to go until the event starts on July 15. With now almost a daily flow of information about WYD08 in the Australian and international media and renewed interest on pilgrim numbers, the website supporting it all has undergone a timely revamp.
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09-Apr-2008
MAGiS is a long-term project designed to foster Ignatian spirituality in young adults aged 18 to 30. The aim of MAGiS is to produce leaders, people with a sense of God's place in their lives and a capacity to do something to build a better world. MAGiS08 is the Ignatian program for World Youth Day 2008.
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08-Apr-2008
This is the international website of the religious congregation of women, the Faithful Companions of Jesus. Last Saturday marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Marie Madeleine de Bonnault d’Houet, foundress of the order.
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07-Apr-2008
Today marks the formal launch of a new Catholic Mission website which features many of the worldwide projects in which the organisation is involved. It is an attempt to show the depth and diversity of Catholic Mission's activities and also to encourage new and existing donors.
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11-Apr-2008
Sometimes film reviewers become more expert in areas that they don’t necessarily aspire to. It is just that they see so many films. How She Move is a case in point. - Fr Peter Malone
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08-Apr-2008
Fittingly absurdist, narrated by a droll English voice actor as if it were a news magazine on some minor channel owned by the BBC, Bruce Petty's alarmed view of the world fits neatly into, and is drawn from, the leftist view of "the West" as a rather meaningless generalisation.
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07-Apr-2008
John Bradley was in his early 20's when as a new teacher he was sent to the remote aboriginal community of Borroloola in the Northern Territory. For most of his adult life he has been working with the Yanyuwa, documenting their language and culture.
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09-Apr-2008
The Society of St Vincent de Paul began in France in 1833 but its 19th century champion in Australia was the eminent architect and politician Charles O'Neill. Torn between professional ambition and a desire to serve the poor, O'Neill's life mirrored the boom and bust cycle of Australia's gold rush society.
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11-Apr-2008
In Australia, a very aggressive exclusionist form of secularism has developed that views religious belief and practice with arrogant intolerance and dismissiveness and which is characterised by attempts to exclude contributions to public discussion by persons who are religious. - Bishop Christopher Prowse, Herald Sun
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10-Apr-2008
At some point our procrastinating and the rationalising have to end, we have to choose, accept the painful renunciations inside that choice, and will the one-thing, God and faithful service of others, because ultimately our sadness comes from the fact that we are not yet saints. - Fr Ron Rolheiser
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09-Apr-2008
I have heard it said that no one should have to pay to use liturgical music because composers and publishers should be happy to do God’s work for free. We would never expect a tiler to repair the church roof without payment. Music writers are no less entitled to be paid for their time and efforts. - Elizabeth Harrington, Liturgy Lines
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08-Apr-2008
It is obvious that anti-dogmatism is alive and well in Anglican and Uniting churches. There are many clergy who proudly turn their back on the formal study of theology and many congregations whose study materials avoid the great theological themes. Dogmatism is understood as standing in the way of pastoral care and unacceptable to the ordinary believer. - Peter Sellick, Online Opinion
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07-Apr-2008
Although my body is broken and wounded by advanced multiple sclerosis, a light of hope in Christ sustains me. I depend upon an electric wheelchair for movement but my dark road still leads to a new horizon. Even though my body is being slowly and steadily destroyed, I will be brought forth as gold. - Mark Pickup, Western Catholic Reporter
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10-Apr-2008
St John's College at the University of Sydney is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2008. It is the oldest Catholic tertiary institution in Australia and likely that it was the first Catholic college to be established in a pre-existing non-Catholic university in the English-speaking world since the Reformation.
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