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10-Jun-2008
Melbourne now has more than one million Catholics and numbers are up 7 percent over the last decade according to Christian Research Association findings, but other faiths have experienced much greater rises with Hindus and Buddhists up over 100 percent and Muslims by 62 percent.
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12-Jun-2008
The Holy See is to publish an edition of the complete works of Pope Benedict including all of the major writings he produced as a theologian prior to his election as pontiff.
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11-Jun-2008
The Holy See has has established two new anti-terrorist units and begun closer collaboration with Interpol, the Vatican security chief says.
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13-Jun-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell yesterday launched a new Catholic social networking site, xt3, with the title referring to Christ in the 3rd millennium.
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13-Jun-2008
Opposition frontbencher Tony Abbott says that Pope Benedict risks being seen but not heard by a "relentlessly secular" Australia during next month's visit for World Youth Day.
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12-Jun-2008
Inner city Sydney residents are reported to be up in arms over the possibility that trees may be bulldozed to provide better access for pilgrims to Randwick Racecourse.
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10-Jun-2008
"Recognisably Australian" red, orange, yellow and blue banners will adorn Sydney for World Youth Day and Pope Benedict's visit, Cardinal George Pell has announced.
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11-Jun-2008
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett will today launch Greening Communities, a Church Resources initiative to help church and non-profit organisations to save water and energy.
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10-Jun-2008
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has released its Ten Commandments of the Environment emphasising that "nothing in this world exists outside the divine plan of creation and redemption".
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12-Jun-2008
After serving more than ten years as the founding chairman of Church Resources, respected business leader Tom O'Brien has retired from the position.
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10-Jun-2008
Retired Sydney Bishop Geoffrey Robinson is continuing his US tour despite accusations that his positions are "not in keeping with the Church" and that he is spreading "misinformation" about the Church's efforts to combat abuse.
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07-Jun-2008
Saying parents cannot afford to raise and educate children on $750 a week, Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations chair Brian Lawrence has called for a boost in the federal minimum wage.
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12-Jun-2008
More than 800 people have signed a petition calling on Melbourne's Catholic Education Office to reverse a decision to close the 142 year old St John the Evangelist school in East Melbourne.
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News - National
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10-Jun-2008
Melbourne missionary couple Shirley and Kevin Blake and Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby were among numerous Catholics honoured in yesterday's Queen's Birthday honours list.
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12-Jun-2008
Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey has called on Catholics to pray, study and meditate on the life and teachings of St Paul during the Pauline year 2008-09 to be launched this month.
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13-Jun-2008
Hobart Archbishop Adrian Doyle has called for greater emphasis on rehabilitation of prisoners and adoption of restorative justice practices to reduce recidivism among criminals.
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News - International
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13-Jun-2008
A Chinese couple whose wedding photos outside a mountain seminary chapel were cut short by the Sichuan earthquake say that the experience has drawn them closer.
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12-Jun-2008
After consultations with Catholic and Protestant authorities, the Swiss canton of Glarus is to rehabilitate a woman executed in 1782 on witchcraft charges.
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12-Jun-2008
An Italian bishop has informed a paraplegic young man that he cannot marry in the Church because he is impotent even though his fiancee is fully aware of his disability.
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10-Jun-2008
Two elderly Italian Carmelite nuns who chained themselves to a lamp post outside the Vatican on Sunday claim to have been expelled from their convent.
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10-Jun-2008
The trial on sex abuse charges of a St John of God brother has begun in Christchurch following his extradition from Australia.
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07-Jun-2008
Jordanian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's first church dating from 33 to 70AD.
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13-Jun-2008
A brigadier-general and three other Rwandan army officers have been arrested on charges of murdering thirteen Catholic priests including a bishop during the 1994 genocide.
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07-Jun-2008
A Catholic seminary in Nigeria faces closure as a result of "astronomical" food prices, its rector says.
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Regulars
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13-Jun-2008
I looked down upon this man, stunned at what I heard and too startled to respond. Yet as I looked at him, I didn't see a cold, heartless killing machine. I saw a poor, broken man carrying around a great guilt and shame for what he had done. To lessen the pain he turned to alcohol. He was acutely aware of his personal sin. - Fr Christopher Saenz, The Far East
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12-Jun-2008
When you truly love each other you realise that having sex outside marriage is not a loving thing to do because you risk putting the other through emotional or spiritual hurt. This statement, made with firm conviction by young married couple Christine and Jason Giuffre, sums up the attitude that made their decision to wait until marriage a joy. - The Record
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11-Jun-2008
All human beings adopt some form of spirituality to make meaning in their lives. In its broadest sense, spirituality has to do with the connectedness of things, especially in a transcendent sense (beyond this place and present time). - Fr Ross Jones, The Gonzagan
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10-Jun-2008
The papacy is a "gift" of the Catholic Church to other Christians but it needs "repair" before those other Christians are likely to accept it. - National Catholic Reporter
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13-Jun-2008
Missionaries of God's Love (MGLs) have just launched a new website. They are a consecrated group of priests, brothers and sisters dedicated to sharing in the Church's mission of the "new evangelization" initiated by Pope John Paul II and encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI.
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12-Jun-2008
Marymount College on the Gold Coast is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The systemic school was the first Catholic co-educational college in Queensland and now has the largest enrolment of any school in the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
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11-Jun-2008
Continuing the healthcare mission of the Sisters of Charity, St Vincent's Health provides acute medical and surgical services, aged care, diagnostics, rehabilitation, allied health, mental health, palliative care and residential care in Melbourne and surrounding suburbs.
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10-Jun-2008
Established in 1961 by the De La Salle Brothers as a boys residential school at Beaudesert in Queensland, BoysTown has morphed into one of the most successful organisations in Australia looking after the interests of disadvantaged children and young people.
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10-Jun-2008
Fashion and friendship are the two stars of this breathlessly awaited movie spin off from the TV series that revisits the lives of the four savvy, sassy and sexy women whose playground is the Big Apple. Love gets a look in although there is nothing raunchy enough to surprise us or offend teenage girls, who may well be encouraged to begin their love affair with designer clothes and their huge price tags early. - Louise Kelleher, Urban Cinefile
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11-Jun-2008
Israel, homosexuality, and Hollywood are targeted for elimination according to the young men from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Aaron Klein an Orthodox Jew and intrepid journalist, has made it a point to seek them out and get answers to his questions.
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13-Jun-2008
This is a remarkable book, the story of a couple as they encountered and moved through the debilitating phases of Alzheimer's disease. It is a story of courage and despair, hope and doubt, rage and circumspection, dignity and compassion. Above all it is a powerful love story. - Damien Brennan, Brisbane Catholic Education
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13-Jun-2008
The deepest, widest sexual scandal in the Church has nothing to do with priests. It’s the scandal of lay people who themselves indulge in the sexual excesses so prevalent in our day, or who train their children to, whether by example, timidity or a blind eye. - National Catholic Register
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12-Jun-2008
Many people thought Kevin Rudd rash when he demanded that public servants work day and night. But should the public servants obey him? There are good grounds for saying that overworking is morally unjustifiable. In old-fashioned Catholic terms it may be a sin. - Fr Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
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11-Jun-2008
If the conservation movement's words are any guide, the Nature to be conserved consists of all living creatures other than man. Conserving mankind forms no part of conserving Nature because humans form no part of a Nature which has been dumbed down to exclude us. - David Long, abc.net.au
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10-Jun-2008
We wear more than physical clothing to cover our naked selves, we cover our nakedness too with a specific ethnicity, language, religious identity, culture, political affiliation, ideology, set of moral judgments, and a whole gamut of private wounds and indignation. These are our outer garments but we also possess a deeper inner garment - our real substance, identity and capacity to act with larger hearts lies underneath. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, Western Catholic Reporter
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12-Jun-2008
Immaculate Conception Parish in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn is launching a new series of breakfast talks aimed at giving adults something to reflect on as they begin their working day. Parish priest Des Dwyer has dubbed them "God's Business Breakfast".
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