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23-May-2008
Sorry Day has a special significance this year, according to Australia's Catholic Bishops.
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News
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28-May-2008
The Catholic Church is growing substantially throughout the world with seminary numbers also on the increase according to recently released Vatican statistics.
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29-May-2008
Women who are ordained as priests will now incur automatic excommunication according to a new decree published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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28-May-2008
A luxurious ancient pagan tomb located in a necropolis under St Peter's Basilica has been reopened to the public after a year of restoration.
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26-May-2008
The Pontifical Council will organise a major conference next year to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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26-May-2008
Key Vatican officials have dismissed suggestions of an impending change to the practice of receiving Communion while standing despite four dozen people receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling from Pope Benedict on the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.
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26-May-2008
After five years work, the Holy See has finally approved the canonical statutes of the Neocatechumenal Way.
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30-May-2008
Against the advice of police, Pope Benedict will stand in the open on the steps of Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral during the Last Supper reenactment of one of World Youth Day's highlighted events, the Stations of the Cross.
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29-May-2008
In a bid to ensure the World Youth Day Stations of the Cross will not incite anti-Semitic feelings and appeal to all Christians, organisers have dropped six traditional stations which have no scriptural foundation.
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28-May-2008
Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship has issued a warning to intending World Youth Day participants that it will not be able to guarantee the processing of visa applications received after the end of this week.
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27-May-2008
A young Melbourne Vinnies volunteer and a young Aboriginal man from Walgett in western NSW will dine with Pope Benedict during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day in July.
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26-May-2008
American pilgrims are complaining of exorbitant airfares from the US of up to $5,000 to attend this year's World Youth Day in Sydney.
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30-May-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has praised organ donation as a "noble act" of "generous solidarity" but condemned organ sales as "morally unacceptable."
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28-May-2008
Warning of a growing world hunger problem, Pope Benedict says that Christians who share the Eucharist must not remain indifferent to those who lack their daily bread.
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27-May-2008
Anglican Dean of Sydney Reverend Phillip Jensen has spoken out strongly against Catholic doctrine at the same time as defending government support for the upcoming World Youth Day event.
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30-May-2008
An educational emergency is pervading much of the world's youth and it required educators who could be credible witnesses to give young people more meaning on which they can build their existence, according to Pope Benedict.
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29-May-2008
Notre Dame University Australia Vice-Chancellor Peter Tannock is to retire and will be succeeded by 39 year old Professor Celia Hammond.
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29-May-2008
In a new book, health expert Fr Gerard Arbuckle has called for improved access of the poor to Australia's health system.
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News - National
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30-May-2008
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has rejected a Victorian government report proposing various models for decriminalising abortion and called for a full parliamentary inquiry into the issue before introducing legislation.
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27-May-2008
A court has placed a former Melbourne Catholic primary school teacher on the sex offenders' register after he downloaded child pornography to a school laptop.
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29-May-2008
"Muslims have a right to a fair go," Cardinal George Pell said yesterday after Camden City Council in Sydney's far west rejected a planning application for an Islamic school.
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News - International
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29-May-2008
Shareholders of oil company Exxon have rejected resolutions submitted by Dominican Sisters in the United States which would have required the company to adopt formal greenhouse gas reduction targets.
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29-May-2008
The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed the excommunications of six members of a Missouri parish board who refused to turn over Church property to the archdiocese.
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26-May-2008
An Oxford radiocarbon testing lab is to make new tests on the Shroud of Turin to determine whether contamination could have skewed earlier tests which indicated a creation date of the 13th or 14th century.
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27-May-2008
A sculpture of a crucified frog holding a mug of beer on display at a Bolzano museum has sparked outrage in Italy.
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26-May-2008
Three 18th century musical scores discovered in a collection at Poland's Jasna Gora monastery may be the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, experts say.
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30-May-2008
Talks between Israel and the Holy See have made "substantial progress" to resolve outstanding financial and legal issues, according to a joint statement by the parties.
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27-May-2008
Zimbabwean government soldiers are hunting Catholic priests and lay leaders who voted against Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party in recent national elections, reports say.
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26-May-2008
A Chinese wedding photographer captured the deadly earthquake of May 12 during a photo shoot using the Church of the Annunciation outside Pengzhou as a backdrop.
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28-May-2008
Cuba is to get its first new Catholic church in more than fifty years, a Maltese missionary priest says.
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Regulars
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30-May-2008
Grief, loss and depression are subjects that men find hard to talk about. But in political life where a thick skin is mandatory for doing the job, keeping a stoic face in public life can come at great personal cost. - Dan McAloon, Catholic Outlook
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29-May-2008
Julia Gillard is talking the talk of reducing sectoral divides without understanding the role of these divides in creating the very equity problems which occupy much of her attention. It is fantasy to try to solve real problems while at the same time ignoring the public-private divide. It is the mechanism of this very divide which has substantially created the problem. - Chris Bonnor, Online Opinion
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28-May-2008
Most Catholics of my generation find it difficult to remember a time when pedophilia wasn't widely associated with the priesthood. A dark cloud of suspicion has been hovering over priests for the past twenty years, and it has only grown more ominous with time. - Fr Damian Ference, Commonweal
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27-May-2008
The formation and transmission of Catholic consciousness and commitment depend critically on three bases: home, school and parish. It really makes no sense to think that if home and school are without Catholic identity then a weekly visit to Sunday Mass can bear the load. - John Haldane, The Catholic Herald
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26-May-2008
Though the parallel shouldn't be pushed too far, in some ways Christian-Muslim relations today might be compared to where things stood with personal computers back in the early 1980's. Everybody knew PC's were the future, but they wouldn't change the world until a simple, appealing, and reasonably standard way of making them work emerged. - John Allen, National Catholic Reporter
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30-May-2008
Skipping the intro on the website for Westminster Cathedral would be one of those rare times in cyberspace when doing so is not a good idea. It leads to an illustration of the inside of the cathedral leading to a panoramic colour view.
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29-May-2008
Aquinas College is one of Western Australia's oldest and best known Catholic schools. It traces its foundations back to Christian Brothers College, Perth in 1894. Its frontage to the Canning River and its expansive campus sees the college bill itself as "one of the most beautiful school environments in the world."
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28-May-2008
The Order of Capuchin Friars Minor in Australia have perhaps one of the most visually appealing religious order websites in the country. This site has a strong vocations focus and provides much in the way of a history of the order and of the Capuchin charism.
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27-May-2008
The Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice is based in Fremantle, Western Australia and is the flagship social justice institute in that state. It is also one of the more prominent ministries of the new Oceania province of the Christian Brothers.
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26-May-2008
Launched on Saturday by Cardinal Pell to mark the 50th Day count-down to World Youth Day in Sydney, YBenedict is a news website designed to serve pilgrims to the event.
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27-May-2008
It is entirely possible to enjoy The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as a vivid fantasy film or see it as an allegory about the defeat of Nazi evil in WWII or even about the medieval Christian crusades to reclaim the Holy Land. But whatever way we enjoy it there is something for everyone here. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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26-May-2008
Senior pastoral leader of City Impact Ministries in Perth, Bruce Downes and friends raise and discuss issues affecting Christians today, from a Catholic perspective. Special guests tell their own personal stories of what being a Christian means to them and about how being a follower of Jesus Christ has changed their lives.
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28-May-2008
The voices of young Australians take over Encounter this week finding out how youth feel about faith and how they incorporate it into their lives.
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30-May-2008
McVerry's book is a Gospel centred lead-in to the mystery of Jesus' crucifixion that builds up chapter by chapter, like episodes in a series of reflective talks at a retreat for non-specialists, taking his listeners through the scripture passages. - John Battle, Thinking Faith
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30-May-2008
Even those who know the Society of Jesus well, including its opponents, frequently have trouble "placing" the order. While its core members vow to accept any project the Pope designates, it is still not easy to say precisely how the order fits into the Christian scene, or how its members serve the Church's ministry in distinctive ways. - Fr Adrian Lyons, Province Express
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29-May-2008
In Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church Bishop Robinson focuses on pathological ideas. His arguing partners are those who make excessive claims for the scope of Church teaching, demand too much deference to Church officials, have too narrowly negative a view of human sexuality, and who put compulsory clerical celibacy beyond discussion. - Fr Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
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28-May-2008
The word passion is also ubiquitous in modern corporate life. Anyone familiar with Mel Gibson's portrayal of the last few hours of the life of Jesus Christ knows that passion once meant something very different to an enthusiasm for meeting this quarter's sales targets. - Trevor Cook, abc.net.au
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27-May-2008
The things we often complain about are really our greatest blessings: What is worse than being too busy? Having nothing to do. What is more painful than having to give away something we own? Having nothing to give away. What is harder than being dragged out of bed to minister to someone in need? Being the person who is in bed and who needs someone to help him or her. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, Western Catholic Reporter
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26-May-2008
We can no longer simply say that we are a Christian country and therefore Christianity should play the lead role in public life. Such a view is rightly criticised as the desire to maintain unmerited privilege. - Nick Spencer, The Tablet
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29-May-2008
Past or future WYD pilgrims living in Melbourne are invited to come along, have breakfast, and socialise with others while listening to inspirational speakers.
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