News
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06-Jun-2008
The latest snapshot of church life in Australia shows that Mass attenders are on average older, better educated and more likely to be female, married and born overseas than Catholics in general.
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05-Jun-2008
Luxury Sydney hotels are bracing for a "potential disaster" as WYD pilgrims opt to sleep in backpackers and budget rooms or to sleep on school floors.
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05-Jun-2008
Vinnies has moved quickly to dispel a report that it is at odds with WYD organisers over meals for the homeless during next month's international event.
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02-Jun-2008
Warning that there are "elements of extremism" in every religion, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his Faith Foundation at a New York news conference.
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06-Jun-2008
The Holy See is working on a new set of pastoral guidelines for interreligious dialogue, according to Vatican Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.
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04-Jun-2008
The Holy See played a key role in brokering a ban on cluster bombs, the Vatican's UN observer, Archbishop Silvio Tommasi, has said.
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03-Jun-2008
Former Vatican exorcist Bishop Andrea Gemma has denounced alleged visions of Our Lady in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje as the "work of the devil" and a "diabolical deceit".
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03-Jun-2008
Pope Benedict will complete his third encyclical tentatively titled Love in the Truth over the European summer, Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says.
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02-Jun-2008
The Holy See Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has published a new instruction on authority and obedience for religious men and women.
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02-Jun-2008
The Holy See has launched a judicial enquiry into a possible second medical miracle for an Australian woman allegedly cured of an inoperable lung cancer.
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06-Jun-2008
Pope Benedict will land at the Richmond airforce base on his arrival in Australia for World Youth Day while his security chief has given the thumbs up to preparations for the papal visit.
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04-Jun-2008
The New South Wales government has budgeted $60.7 million for World Youth Day expenses next financial year bringing total confirmed public funding for the event to $139 million.
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03-Jun-2008
Vinnies staff are concerned over a decision to move meals for the homeless away from their usual distribution venues during World Youth Day.
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04-Jun-2008
Sisters of St Joseph at Lochinvar near Maitland NSW have developed five eco-friendly units including paths made from recycled tyres as well as large water tanks.
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06-Jun-2008
Describing animal rights campaigner group PETA as "occult", Bombala priest Fr Mick McAndrew has given his blessing to the act of sheep mulesing.
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04-Jun-2008
Australian Catholic University has named Jesuit Professor Frank Brennan to a new Canberra based public policy think tank to be launched later this year.
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02-Jun-2008
Sydney University has bought Australia's only copy of reproduction manuscripts of the 14th century trials of the Knights Templar that rehabilitated the order.
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News - National
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05-Jun-2008
Most Australians do not believe that government international aid should be used to fund abortions, Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot says.
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03-Jun-2008
Chris Newsome and Kim Tierney who met on reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife married at the weekend in Tamworth, while a New Zealand Catholic matchmaking service has announced its service is opening in Australia.
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02-Jun-2008
A Victorian County Court judge has fined retired Fr Adelrick D'Cruz $500 and imposed a two year good behaviour bond following the priest's conviction for indecent assault on a teenage girl.
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03-Jun-2008
Maitland-Newcastle diocese has stood down a second priest over a professional misconduct investigation, the diocese has announced.
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06-Jun-2008
Adelaide archdiocese has started to cancel Masses owing to a shortage of priests, reports say.
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02-Jun-2008
A $6 million facelift for Hobart's St Mary's Cathedral has highlighted its historic baptismal font which may be Norman and date back to the 9th century.
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News - International
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02-Jun-2008
Controversial Chicago priest, Fr Michael Pfleger, has apologised after parodying US presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton in a Sunday sermon.
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06-Jun-2008
The great and the good of the world's fashion industry crammed the Paris church of St Roch yesterday for the funeral of designer Yves St Laurent.
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03-Jun-2008
With rice prices soaring, Mindanao Philippines Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez has threatened to withhold communion from rice traders who hoard rice accusing them of "satanic" practices.
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04-Jun-2008
An Iraqi priest murdered a year ago, Fr Ragheed Rani, could have escaped but refused to do so because "God's house should not be closed," a witness says.
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05-Jun-2008
The United Nations has elected Maryknoll priest and former Nicaraguan foreign minister Fr Miguel D'Escoto as the next president of its General Assembly.
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Religion
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07-Jun-2008
Australian Catholic social networking site Faithtrip is going global with the launch of a seven language user interface.
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04-Jun-2008
Indian church officials moved quickly to insist that girls under the age of eighteen cannot take vows after the Kerala State Women's Commission asked Parliament to bring in laws banning the practice.
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Regulars
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06-Jun-2008
We live in a culture increasingly obsessed with acquisition and instant gratification. When these goods are denied or when their realisation requires the longer view, there is a marked tendency to lash out verbally and often physically. - Jill Segger, The Catholic Herald
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05-Jun-2008
Some people will complain that incense makes them cough, but people with medical expertise assure me that incense smoke is less harmful than the exhaust fumes in the church carpark! - Elizabeth Harrington, Liturgy Lines
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04-Jun-2008
If the best measure of a state's civil and economic health is the infant mortality rate, the degree to which a government is capable of sustaining the lives of the most vulnerable in society, then by this measure, and in ordinary times, the Burmese junta has abysmally failed its people. - Paul Ham, The Age
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03-Jun-2008
Cardinal Danneels, though he is open-minded and respectful, is distressed that there are not brighter men in the Church hierarchy. This point comes up as we speak about the Synod of Bishops. He has attended every assembly since 1980. - The Tablet
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02-Jun-2008
One cannot understand the world without religions. The reason is that religions are capable of the best as well as of the worst: they can serve holiness or alienation. They can preach peace or war. Yet it is always necessary to explain that it is not the religions themselves that wage war but rather their followers! - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Thinking Faith.
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06-Jun-2008
Still in its formative stages after its October 2007 launch, Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) is the authority created by the Christian Brothers to independently implement their educational mission in the order's Australian schools.
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05-Jun-2008
Yesterday's remaining primaries in the United States confirmed Senator Barack Obama as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. This section of the Obama'08 website focuses on a seminal speech he gave just under two years about the connection between religion and politics.
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04-Jun-2008
Jubilee Catholic Community is a parish in the inner northern and western suburbs of Brisbane. It has only been a parish for the past two years after it was born out of the amalgamation of six former parishes in a sweeping rationalisation of resources and pastoral planning in the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
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03-Jun-2008
One of the most respected Catholic publishers in the world, US-based Paulist Press, have for over 140 years prided themselves on presenting a Catholic perspective on important contemporary questions.
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02-Jun-2008
The Australian Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have about 190 members and they are active in parishes, education, hospitals and other specialised ministries.
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03-Jun-2008
This is a light mixture of sports story and screwball romantic comedy. The setting is 1925. The sport is professional American football. The romance is one of those sparring then falling in love situations between George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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02-Jun-2008
Joni and Friends, a new television program hosted by Joni Eareckson Tada, highlights a refreshingly honest approach to people's toughest questions about the goodness of God in a world shattered by pain and suffering.
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04-Jun-2008
Christians are a small minority in Israel but they visit the country in large numbers and they've also been influential in deciding its fate. One Christian who came 30 years ago and stayed is the Reverend Dr Petra Heldt, who co-founded The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Jerusalem and, although seriously injured in a suicide bomb attack in 1989, she wouldn't live anywhere else.
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06-Jun-2008
This Is The Mass is a new book which explains with lucid text and beautiful photographic images the Eucharist. It takes the reader step by step through the sacred liturgy from the introductory rites to the dismissal and recessional.
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06-Jun-2008
Depending on which way a certain Anglican group may lean, they could be described as Catholic Lite or Protestants with prayer books. Until the mid-20th cCentury, however, most of them stayed in the middle of the road together. - Randy Sly, Catholic Online
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05-Jun-2008
According to human rights groups, the United States holds more than 20,000 people, some say as many as 27,000 people, in detention centers around the world. All are held without charge or with no trial scheduled or planned. How many have been tortured we do not know. But torture, illegal detention, and cover-ups have become standard operating procedure for the new American empire. - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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04-Jun-2008
People can make all kinds of mistakes in following their personal consciences. Are we really justified in upholding the principle that one must follow one's conscience, when so many people, by following their conscience, seem to make so many mistakes? - Fr John Kelly, Marist Messenger
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03-Jun-2008
If the so called scientific consensus on man-made climate change lacks substance, as is increasingly evident, then punitive measures to cut the carbon 'footprints', involving huge increases in fuel and power costs, with all their flow-on effects, will be both futile and masochistic. - Michael Gilchrist, AD 2000
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02-Jun-2008
Stalin was famously dismissive of the Pope, demanding to know how many armed divisions he could command. But Catholicism has outlasted both communism and socialism. Although the religion's critics are right to point to the paradox of its championing of the poor with its own love of the good life, there is an integrity and spirituality about its purpose that even an agnostic like me has to concede. - Will Hutton, The Observer
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05-Jun-2008
Join Hobart's Knights of the Southern Cross and Tasmanians 4 Tanzania for a film evening on Sunday June 15 to raise funds for the building of a water pipeline in the country.
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