News
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04-Jul-2008
Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and representatives of other Orthodox and Anglican churches accompanied Pope Benedict in lighting a candle to launch the Year of St Paul.
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27-Jun-2008
Society of St Pius X head, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has snubbed a Vatican offer to rejoin Rome.
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04-Jul-2008
Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Service volunteers will not seek "authorised person" status while assisting with WYD in order to avoid "negative interactions with people".
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04-Jul-2008
A record number of Vietnamese pilgrims will attend World Youth Day this year but US numbers are down - and 50 Angola pilgrims are stranded in Sydney instead of Adelaide because tour organisers thought the SA capital was only an hour way.
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03-Jul-2008
Debate raged yesterday over WYD regulations threatening $5,500 fines for "annoyance" to pilgrims with Jesuit Professor Frank Brennan condemning the regulations while NSW WYD Minister Kristina Keneally insisted the regulations were similar to those for other major events.
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02-Jul-2008
Ex-gangster, Briton John Pridmore, will appear with Pope Benedict during the evening vigil service at Randwick racecourse.
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01-Jul-2008
Pope Benedict's plane will stop in Darwin for refuelling on the way to Sydney for World Youth Day and locals are hoping that the pontiff will step out to greet Territorians.
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30-Jun-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell says he would back an apology by Pope Benedict for sexual and physical abuse by Catholic clergy.
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03-Jul-2008
Victoria's Coalition parties have promised an additional $400 million in funding for Catholic schools which say that they are increasingly underfunded by the state Labor government.
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02-Jul-2008
Dr William Robert Griffiths has been appointed as the new CEO of the National Catholic Education Commission, Australia's bishops have announced.
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30-Jun-2008
Announcing a move away from Year 12 scores in its selection criteria, ACU Vice Chancellor Professor Greg Craven said the university believed that intellect and character were two sides of the same coin.
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30-Jun-2008
Former action movie hero, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised to say "twenty rosaries" a day if necessary to get a radical plan for the state's 6.7 million people without health insurance cover.
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News - National
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04-Jul-2008
Australia's bishops have urged Catholics to "celebrate the Living Spirit" to mark Aboriginal and Torres Islander Sunday this weekend.
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03-Jul-2008
Cardinal George Pell has laid the foundation stone for a new Sydney seminary to be set up by the Neo-Catechumenal Way for the archdiocese.
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30-Jun-2008
A NSW coroner's vehicle transporting the body of a baby girl who died suddenly could not wait 45 minutes for the arrival of the grieving father from WA, despite an offer from the local parish priest to cover any extra costs of the delay.
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30-Jun-2008
The Lismore diocese has lost ten priests in twelve months to retirement and illness, with the NSW town of Wauchope the latest to lose its resident priest.
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02-Jul-2008
Cairns Catholic Bishop James Foley has joined leaders of others faiths in supporting the construction of a mosque in the North Queensland resort town.
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30-Jun-2008
A Canberra law firm has lodged papers in the ACT Supreme Court seeking a list of former principals, deputy principals and senior teachers at Marist College following the conviction on abuse charges of a former teacher at the school.
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News - International
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04-Jul-2008
Two hundred South Korean priests have celebrated a street Mass in Seoul to protest an unpopular government decision to resume beef imports from the US.
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03-Jul-2008
YouTube has pulled a pro-life video that exposes another documentary film project as a pro-abortion initiative.
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30-Jun-2008
American Archbishop Raymond Burke of St Louis, Missouri, a renowned disciplinarian, has been named as the first American to head the Holy See supreme court, the Apostolic Signatura.
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27-Jun-2008
A Minnesota judge has upheld the right of a local priest to exclude an autistic boy from a parish church for his "disruptive conduct."
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04-Jul-2008
Italian scooter manufacturer Piaggio has presented Pope Benedict with two new specially made three wheeled vehicles.
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03-Jul-2008
Lourdes rector and treasurer, Fr Raymond Zambelli, is under investigation for fraud after more than $700,000 in funds was discovered in his personal bank account.
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01-Jul-2008
The French diocese of Besancon has launched a reality TV show with its first newly ordained priest in three years as the star.
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01-Jul-2008
A Scottish monsignor who was sacked after an 18 year affair with a married woman is suing the Catholic Church for unfair dismissal.
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02-Jul-2008
Gunmen thought to be terrorist rebels shot and killed a Salesian missionary, Fr John Prakash, in Nepal yesterday as well as throwing bombs as they left.
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03-Jul-2008
At a meeting with two Brazilian Indians yesterday, Pope Benedict pledged his support for their struggle to defend their lands.
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02-Jul-2008
Several Catholic priests have been assaulted and at least one Catholic house has been burnt down by pro-Mugabe supporters in Zimbabwe election violence.
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Religion
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01-Jul-2008
American Catholics are organising a July appeal to the Vatican and Northern American bishops to have female figures from the New Testament such as Mary of Magdala re-included in lectionary texts from which they have been deleted.
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Regulars
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04-Jul-2008
"People who leave the Church are not leaving because they are rejecting the teachings of John Paul II or Pope Benedict. Most do so because they go to Catholic schools and they think that the kind of warm secular humanism with Christian gloss that they get in Catholic schools is in fact the Catholic faith and it hasn't captured their imagination, their love or their intellect so they are walking away from something that they do not know." - The Catholic Herald
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03-Jul-2008
This inner moral compass is what defines Mem as a children's author and her principal goal in such a prolific writing career has been to ensure every child has the chance to read and every parent gets to experience the joy of reading aloud to their child. This is her gift to the world; her chant; her bible. - Rebecca DiGirolamo, The Southern Cross
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02-Jul-2008
It's time to take the pity out of aid. The aid industry – from celebrity "humanitarians" to professional aid agencies - needs to stop trading on the pornography of poverty and start thinking more creatively. Objectifying poverty and pressing Joe and Joanna Public's guilt buttons are as shallow as the problems they seek to address. - Sally Cooper, abc.net.au
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01-Jul-2008
The problem for stem cell scientists and their boosters, is that the embryo is clearly human. It has the full human genome and barring any mishaps, it will someday become successively a foetus, a baby, a child, and an adult. It is a human being in an embryonic stage of development. - Michael Cook, MercatorNet
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30-Jun-2008
Victims say that towards Kostka's later years his abuse was more brazen and frequent. His office was a popular place to abuse the children, luring them in with the promise of warmth on a cold winter's day, or a video they could watch in the lunch break. - The Canberra Times
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07-Jul-2008
Catholic News is the official newspaper of the archdiocese of Singapore. Interestingly, its website heavily focuses on not just news and information but has as its centrepiece a discussion forum and blog, something a little unusual for "official" Church newspaper websites.
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04-Jul-2008
First Things is a monthly ecumenical journal concerned with the creation of a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society." It is published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life in the United States of America.
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03-Jul-2008
The Courier-Mail in Brisbane is featuring a dedicated World Youth Day section on its website combining Queensland pilgrim stories and stories about the event from further afield. The section is being coordinated by Marcus Kuczynski, the former editor of The Catholic Leader, who will be covering World Youth Day in Sydney for the newspaper.
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02-Jul-2008
The Holy Spirit Province of the Blessed Sacrament congregation is an Australian community of priests and brothers who, inspired by the mystery of the Eucharist, live their lives in the footsteps of the order's founder, St Peter Julian Eymard.
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01-Jul-2008
This is the website of the Redemptorists of Australia and New Zealand. The religious order of priests and brothers is formally known as the Congregation of the Most Holy Redemeer. They arrived in Australia in 1882 and are best known for their missions to parishes.
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30-Jun-2008
This is the new website for the Combined Josephites, the "black" and "brown" Josephites. Through the collaborative effort of both groupings, the site visitor is rewarded with the rich resources and contemporary spirituality of the sisters.
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04-Jul-2008
Kung Fu Panda is essentially a martial arts comedy and is a total action movie. It has striking effects and action sequences and a particularly impressive concluding fantasy sequence which brings DreamWorks to a new level of technological sophistication. There is a strong cultural feel about the movie and it heavily draws on Chinese culture to bring authenticity to its fantasy. - Peter Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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01-Jul-2008
In the original television series, Maxwell Smart was a likeable dead-pan hero, who was an adept deliverer of witty one-liners, desperately trying to look secure in a world constantly creating chaos around him. He was assisted by an adoring Agent 99 who loved him despite all his faults. In this movie, it is not quite like that. - Peter Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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30-Jun-2008
This week's edition of Compass focuses on an increasing phenomenon in our national life, the emergence of grandparents in the prime caring role of their grandchildren. In Australia today around 31,000 children are being raised by their grandparents.
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02-Jul-2008
This week's program looks at how the "patient" (the Church) is doing as World Youth Day approaches? American author and journalist Robert Blair Kaiser author of A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future, does some diagnoses on the present state of the Catholic Church.
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04-Jul-2008
His challenge was to see the beauty in every face, even when the owner of that face had long given up on it. Surely, that is to love others as Jesus did—Jesus the One who never gives up on us. If we are to love as Jesus loved, we need to be forgiving people. Forgiving people are bridge-builders and reconcilers. - Fr Chris Gleeson, Madonna
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03-Jul-2008
The New South Wales Government's controversial amendment to the World Youth Day Act is a dreadful interference with civil liberties, and contrary to the spirit of Catholic Social Teaching on human rights. - Fr Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
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02-Jul-2008
When Jesus overturned their tables and threw the money lenders out of the temple it could have been described also as "a senseless act of vandalism". I imagine that it was a common fate of the prophets to have been labelled as mad. From the perspective of the vested interest of their times their words and actions could be seen as "senseless and warped". They certainly disturbed the peace. - Fr Pat O'Shea, The Far East
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01-Jul-2008
Robinson was talking about the aura of the sacred that surrounds the celibate priesthood, which Popes have encouraged for 1000 years by sticking with the celibacy rule, despite a good deal of evidence that mandatory celibacy creates what Robinson calls "unhealthy living conditions" in the priesthood. "Celibate" in this false equation means "sexless" and "sexless" means "holy". - Robert Blair Kaiser, The Sydney Morning Herald
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30-Jun-2008
One of the great advantages of letters is that for the most part they are personal. Paul is writing real letters, to real people, aiming to solve the difficulties that arise in real situations. Paul is, moreover, unmistakably flesh and blood, a real person, whom we overhear threatening the Corinthians with corporal punishment and accusing the Galatians of stupidity, and of being bewitched. - Nicholas King, The Tablet
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03-Jul-2008
The Edmund Rice Youth Ministry Festival is an official World Youth Day event and an opportunity for students of schools in the Edmund Rice tradition or young people inspired by Blessed Edmund's charism to gather and celebrate.
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