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18-Apr-2008
There is more freedom and better conditions for detainees at the new $500 million immigration detention centre on Christmas Island but also more isolation, says ACBC spokesman, Monsignor John Murphy, who has visited the remote Indian Ocean site.
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18-Apr-2008
A former South Australian Catholic priest is fighting extradition from Indonesia to Australia on child abuse charges.
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17-Apr-2008
Patient diplomacy solves conflicts, Pope Benedict told US President George Bush at a White House welcome ceremony following the pontiff's arrival in Washington yesterday.
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16-Apr-2008
As 2,000 mourners gathered at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral for the funeral of Archbishop Frank Little, another crowd gathered a few blocks away at St Michael's Uniting Church to farewell Labor stalwart and former federal minister John Button.
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15-Apr-2008
Caritas Australia has backed a call from World Bank chief, Robert Zoellick, to put "our money where our mouth is" over rising food prices that threaten crisis from the Caribbean to Africa and Asia, including East Timor.
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15-Apr-2008
Australia must reverse its opposition to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) head, Fr Mark Raper SJ says.
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18-Apr-2008
In an unprecedented move, Pope Benedict has just met in Washington with five victims of clerical sexual abuse.
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16-Apr-2008
En route to the US where he was greeted on arrival by President George Bush, Pope Benedict said he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy abuse scandal that has dogged the American Catholic Church emphasising that he would do everything in his power to exclude pedophiles from the priesthood.
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14-Apr-2008
The Vatican has blocked the appointment of a prominent lay theologian and businessman as chief executive of Germany's Catholic University of Eichstatt.
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18-Apr-2008
Elders from Sydney's Gadigal indigenous community will be the first to welcome Pope Benedict when he arrives in Sydney for World Youth Day in July.
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15-Apr-2008
Sydney bus operators fear the NSW government has underestimated the impact of the expected influx of 200,000 World Youth Day visitors on the city's already stretched bus system.
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14-Apr-2008
Pope Benedict has refused to wear specially designed vestments with Australian motifs, hailed as "chic clergy couture" by organisers, for his World Youth Day final Mass.
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18-Apr-2008
The current government welfare system is full of politically-driven anomalies while the community sector is being overwhelmed by red tape and bureaucracy, Catholic Social Services head, Frank Quinlan, said ahead of this weekend's 2020 Summit.
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14-Apr-2008
A manager for a Newcastle developer made out a cheque to the ALP "on behalf of the Maitland Catholic Diocese", a Sydney newspaper reports.
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17-Apr-2008
Parents at two inner city Melbourne Catholic schools are campaigning against mergers with neighbouring schools that they fear would also result in higher fees.
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News - National
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16-Apr-2008
Catholic Social Services chief, Frank Quinlan, has called on the Federal Government to stop tinkering at the edges and to implement a major overhaul of legislation that allows people's welfare payments to be cut for up to eight weeks.
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16-Apr-2008
Government leadership should extend beyond providing funding and must foster community understanding, Victoria's Catholic social agencies say in a submission to this weekend's 2020 Summit.
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16-Apr-2008
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael has denied that a cheque for $5,500 to the ALP was made on behalf of the Catholic Church.
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16-Apr-2008
Wollongong residents are fighting a planning proposal, already unanimously rejected by the city's now sacked council, to open a gun shop adjacent to Fairy Meadow's St John Vianney Catholic primary school.
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15-Apr-2008
A NSW Education Department official said the state did not lease or sell surplus land to non-government schools "in competition" with public schools after parents at a Sydney Catholic school requested the government to sell the land to provide a safety buffer for children at the school.
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17-Apr-2008
The Tasmanian government has told two women who were emotionally abused in a Catholic children's home that they are not eligible for ex gratia compensation even though the institution was state approved.
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News - International
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15-Apr-2008
Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir has warned the politically "fragmented" country is "on the path of collapse".
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15-Apr-2008
With Pope Benedict scheduled to touch down in the United States today, officials at Yankee Stadium say that his "popemobile" vehicle will not be allowed on the turf at the iconic New York venue.
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14-Apr-2008
The White House has scheduled a dinner in honour of Pope Benedict during his visit to the USA this week - but the pope is not attending, reports say.
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18-Apr-2008
Police were shocked to find that a man running down a German highway pulling a three-wheeled trailer was a Polish man on his way back from a 3,000 km pilgrimage to Portugal.
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17-Apr-2008
Days after clashes in Hanoi over the return of confiscated land which belonged to a Redemptorist seminary, the Vietnamese government has unexpectedly announced the return of land near Hue surrounding a pilgrimage site dedicated to Our Lady of La Vang.
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14-Apr-2008
In an attack blamed on Al Qaeda, a mortar round concealed in a box has exploded under a car outside Zamboanga City's Immaculate Conception cathedral in the Philippines.
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17-Apr-2008
Following a tip off from residents, Ugandan wildlife officers have rescued a chimpanzee from the home of a local Catholic priest.
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16-Apr-2008
Brazil's Catholic bishops conference has denounced recent death threats against three of its members in Para state in the Amazon region.
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14-Apr-2008
South Africa's Catholic bishops have accused Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of failing to respect the democratic process and called for international mediation to end the political stalemate over the country's disputed national elections.
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Regulars
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18-Apr-2008
It can be reasonably easy to identify and take issue with the cruder fundamentalist approaches to Biblical text, especially if one is Catholic and less reliant on "the whole text, and nothing but the text", for answers to life’s questions. - Fr John Moffatt, Thinking Faith
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17-Apr-2008
The duty of democratic governments and of liberal institutions, such as the UN and the EU, is to enforce tolerance for one's right to free expression. Authorities in western countries have done exactly that by rejecting Christian objections against the display of Piss Christ. But most western institutions did exactly the opposite by condemning Geert Wilders' film on Islam, Fitna, as "highly offensive". - Alamgir Hussain, Online Opinion
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16-Apr-2008
In less than three years of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has spoken publicly about marriage on 111 occasions. His pronouncements connect marriage to such overarching themes as human rights, world peace, and the conversation between faith and reason. - MercatorNet
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15-Apr-2008
The devil is pleased by the way he is generally represented - with wings and a tail, horns, as a bat, etc - because these images make him seem ridiculous and help people to believe that he does not exist. - Catholic Online
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14-Apr-2008
The dilemma of what to do with churches that have fallen out of favour and into disrepair is facing towns and villages across France and other European countries. Some communities have dynamited churches deemed too expensive to maintain. Others have taken a less radical approach, selling them as housing. - International Herald Tribune
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18-Apr-2008
After 80 years as a bastion of Catholic education in Brisbane, Marist College Rosalie will close at the end of 2008. Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding its closure, the College has planned a series of commemorative activities to mark the occasion.
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17-Apr-2008
The Sisters of Charity were among the pioneers of religious congregations in the Australian Catholic Church following their arrival in Sydney on the last day in 1838. Since this time they have made themselves "extensively useful" to the local Church and the country through a myriad of mission activities.
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16-Apr-2008
Blog sites have become a striking feature on the internet and Catholic-oriented blogs are no exception. Godzdogz is a blog created by English Dominican students.
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15-Apr-2008
With the Church employing over 7,500 people in South Australia, Catholic Safety, Health and Welfare in the state provides a comprehensive website for both managers and staff in education, health, social services and parishes to understand how they can prevent injury.
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14-Apr-2008
The Catholic Church in Britain has been making news in recent times through its strong opposition to that nation's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Like other areas of the universal Church, it has just marked Vocations Sunday with a massive campaign to encourage young men and women to consider religious life.
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18-Apr-2008
From the first moment of that spectacular aerial shot of Paris from the heights of the Eiffel Tower, we become totally immersed. Immersed in Paris and its stories of life, love, dreams and death. Cédric Klapisch's film is an Ode to the City Of Love, as it reveals the stories of those who live there. - Urban Cinefile
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15-Apr-2008
Gone Baby Gone is a fascinating film in many ways. Based on a novel about the abduction of a little girl, the initial premise is reminiscent of the highly publicised, and unsolved mystery of little Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from her bed in a Portuguese holiday resort. But that is where the similarity ends.
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14-Apr-2008
Pacific Padres looks at some of the unsung heroes of the war in the pacific, the chaplains who supported our fighting forces.
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16-Apr-2008
As preparations are afoot for a groundbreaking meeting at the Vatican between Catholic and Muslim scholars, Encounter presents voices of experience in this most historically compelling dialogue.
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18-Apr-2008
Australians would be shocked by the findings of the National Youth Commission released earlier this month. The report reveals the problem of youth homelessness in Australia has doubled in less than 20 years for teenagers. - Fr Wally Dethlefs, The Catholic Leader
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17-Apr-2008
Today the governance of the Church is more centralised than at any time in its history. To make the Church more collegial, the Vatican should once again adopt practices of the secular political world. - Fr Thomas Reese, Commonweal
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16-Apr-2008
Kay Goldsworthy will be consecrated a Bishop in St George's Anglican Cathedral, Perth next month. She will be the first woman to become a bishop in an Australian church. No-one who knows Kay Goldsworthy would question her spiritual, intellectual, pastoral or administrative capacity for episcopal ministry. - Charles Sherlock, Eureka Street
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15-Apr-2008
Worst of all is the endless chatter inside our heads. We long for silence yet how often, when we are alone, in a quiet place, do we not reach out to turn on the television or the transistor? Because it is only when we have some measure of quiet that we become conscious of this inner monologue. We use noise to cancel out noise. - The Far East
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14-Apr-2008
If the hallmark of John Paul II's pontificate was his contribution to the collapse of communism, the incumbent Pope has set himself and his successors an even larger and, for many observers, a more improbable goal - nothing less than the re-conversion of the West. - Christopher Pearson, The Australian
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17-Apr-2008
Reasons for Hope is a major event for students and young adults (18-35) in the lead up to World Youth Day 2008. This is the Victorian leg of the program which is being billed as a retreat with inspiring speakers and plenty of time to prepare spiritually for WYD in July.
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