News
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11-Jul-2008
Pope Benedict has named 70 year old Italian Archbishop Angelo Amato as the new prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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09-Jul-2008
A vote by the Church of England's General Synod in favour of women bishops will be an "obstacle" to reconciliation with the Catholic Church, the Vatican says.
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07-Jul-2008
Conservative senior Anglican bishops have met officials of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to discuss the crisis over homosexual priests.
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07-Jul-2008
Vatican security officials have caught a man in clerical garb attempting to pass himself of as a priest who wanted to hear confessions in St Peter's Basilica.
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11-Jul-2008
TV personality Eddie McGuire will tonight take on a new role at Melbourne's Telstra Dome as master of ceremonies for the city's World Youth Day commissioning Mass.
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10-Jul-2008
WYD pilgrims have started to pour into Sydney with the airport busy with arriving groups.
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09-Jul-2008
Life with God is "so much more fulfilling", according to an American Dominican sister who has arrived for World Youth Day.
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08-Jul-2008
Railway workers are threatening a strike on the day Pope Benedict arrives in Sydney for WYD.
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07-Jul-2008
Pope Benedict will rest three days at an Opus Dei run resort at Kenthurst north of Sydney after his arrival at Richmond airforce base for World Youth Day.
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07-Jul-2008
Pope Benedict may be considering further changes to the order of the Mass, an Italian magazine suggests.
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07-Jul-2008
Australia is one of the least religious countries in the world according to findings released by the German Bertelsmann Foundation.
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11-Jul-2008
Catholic Health Australia has warned Prime Minister Kevin Rudd the Government's move to raise Medicare surcharge levy thresholds will hurt families.
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News - National
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11-Jul-2008
The National Office for Evangelisation is launching a new program Rewired to help welcome young people back to parishes following World Youth Day.
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11-Jul-2008
Cardinal George Pell has referred a controversial sex abuse case involving a former Sydney priest to a special panel chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge.
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10-Jul-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has signalled that he is ready to re-open an investigation into abuse claims after the priest involved was reported to have admitted that the complained of activity was not consensual.
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09-Jul-2008
Blessed Mary MacKillop will be the first person featured on a new series of Inspirational Australians coins.
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09-Jul-2008
Newly released figures show that 27.56 percent of Australians are Catholics making it still the largest denomination in the country.
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09-Jul-2008
Writing to a man complaining about abuse by a priest, Cardinal George Pell responded that "in the end, it is your word against his".
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08-Jul-2008
Good Samaritan Congregational Leader, Sr Clare Condon, is the new president of Catholic Religious Australia replacing Jesuit Fr Mark Raper who completed his term.
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08-Jul-2008
A Sydney man has accused Cardinal George Pell of failing to disclose details of a past sexual abuse by a priest to a victim while Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey has denied receiving earlier knowledge of other sexual abuse allegations dating from 2000.
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11-Jul-2008
Jesuit Fr Paul Coleman will officiate at a Sydney baptism for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's baby daughter Sunday Rose but no date has yet been set.
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10-Jul-2008
Italian migrants have raised over $100,000 for a new statue of Pope John Paul II at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.
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07-Jul-2008
Adelaide property industry figures have raised questions over the sale of government land to the Catholic Church for a major redevelopment project.
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10-Jul-2008
The Bethel Community have decided to close following allegations against their leader and Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey has apologised for not doing more earlier.
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News - International
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10-Jul-2008
St Louis archdiocesan investigators videoed the ordination ceremony of a US woman to use as evidence against a Catholic nun who attended the service.
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10-Jul-2008
British Anglican Bishop Andrew Burnham is ready to lead his followers into the Catholic Church, UK reports indicate, but he is also seeking a "magnanimous gesture" from Rome.
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07-Jul-2008
In a pontifical first, Pope Benedict will read the Bible for an Italian television show to be broadcast later this year.
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07-Jul-2008
A Hebrew inscribed tablet believed to date from the decades before the birth of Jesus may refer to a Messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
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07-Jul-2008
A Vatican spokesperson says that Pope Benedict will meet freed French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt who attributed her release to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
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09-Jul-2008
A Chinese priest whose church was destroyed in the May earthquake has been sleeping in a car while he launches a rebuilding plan.
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Regulars
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11-Jul-2008
Christians do not have to be obsessed with morality, we may leave that to the pietists and the puritans, that is not what we are about. For we know that any attempt at purity that relies on our own efforts is delusion. What we do know is that if we attend the Eucharist and listen to the Word we will be transformed, almost without our knowing, into persons who can lead a good life without having to think too much about it. - Peter Sellick, Online Opinion
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10-Jul-2008
Surrogacy goes against the nature of marriage itself. Marriage is a permanent and exclusive communion of a man and a woman ordered towards their own well being and the procreation and upbringing of children. Surrogacy introduces an outsider into the marriage covenant with the aim of producing and/or carrying a child who is not the fruit of the marital act of the couple. - Ray Campbell, The Catholic Leader
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09-Jul-2008
I do not believe that young people are the future of the Church. I know it's easy to think and tempting to say, but it's a harmful idea. I can't think of another organisation that would tell young people that their contribution lies in the future when they have reached middle or older age, when their energy has dimmed a little and their vision lost some of its clarity. - Fr Philip Marshall, The Southern Cross
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08-Jul-2008
Witness is a permanent characteristic of the Christian person. We do not decide that on Tuesdays we will be a witness. We are witnesses 24/7, as the saying goes. Do not be afraid - let the power of the Holy Spirit shine out in you. That is my deepest hope for all of you. - Bishop Kevin Manning, Catholic Outlook
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07-Jul-2008
The dispute over access to Randwick hasn't been the only cause of tensions, with behind the scenes disagreements between the Church and the Government over everything from advertising campaigns to public access. Frustrated Government organisers say the Church was never geared to put on such an event and if there have been shortfalls in pilgrims, homestays and volunteers, the attitude was too often: "God will provide." - Linda Morris, The Sydney Morning Herald
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11-Jul-2008
Loreto College, Marryatville in Adelaide is a Preschool to Year 12 school for girls. From the homepage of its website you are left in no doubt - "believe to achieve" and "emerge with confidence" - aka girls can do anything!
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10-Jul-2008
Always People is an international movement involved in a wide variety of activities working for justice, peace, the environment and the well being and happiness of people. It is predominately comprised of lay Catholics and two of its founders where previously employees of the archdiocese of Brisbane's Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care.
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09-Jul-2008
This is the Australian branch of a Maltese society of lay catechists founded by Fr George Preca, the European island's first native born saint. Established in Melbourne in 1956, the Australian society was the first successful mission outside of Malta.
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08-Jul-2008
National Catholic Superannuation Fund was established 21 years ago and is administered by Catholic Church Insurances Limited, a company owned by the Catholic dioceses and religious institutes.
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11-Jul-2008
Mamma Mia is one film that is definitely critic proof. Fans will want to see (and hear) it, no matter what. For those who detest Abba songs, nothing will get them to go to see it. Fair enough. But what about those of us who are stranded somewhere along the love-hate continuum? - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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08-Jul-2008
I love surprises and would happily be led up the garden path with Will Smith, but there's a fatal flaw to Hancock, with alien sized plot holes and worse still, characters behaving out of context. As a result, this big budget Will Smith action movie is certain to divide audiences and for the most part leave them wanting. - Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
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07-Jul-2008
This book draws out the parallels and contrasts between the course of Hans Kung and that of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope, seen as the last two active representatives of the comrades in arms who fought for renewal at the Second Vatican Council. The divergent currents that followed the council are mirrored in their subsequent careers. - John Wilkins, The Tablet
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11-Jul-2008
Perhaps the real reason that the Church is dying in Australia is that the Catholic Church may not have arrived at all in Australia. What Australia may have imported was primarily a class and nationalist struggle, with a Church preaching from the pulpit and administering sacraments in order to keep those involved in the struggle progressing further. - Andrew Thomas Kania, The Tablet
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10-Jul-2008
These objects of artistic attention are not objects, lumps of wood, nor passive participants. A model contributes to the artist's work. There are relationships to be considered. Where the model is a child, she is or he is legally and morally vulnerable, which imposes a far greater moral obligation on the stronger person in the relationship. Parents are expected to put best interests first. Artists, on their own argument, put the art first. - Moira Rayner, Eureka Street
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09-Jul-2008
Religious symbols, especially the great sacramental mysteries, are the
gateways to powerful experiences of God. They are like bridges we cross
to enter another world of consciousness, in which we can know even
realities which transcend the familiar world of everyday life. But the
gateways can only be found and entered by those who have grown to a
certain level of faith.
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08-Jul-2008
I once woke up in a field outside Rome, cold, tired and bewildered. I hadn't slept very well or for very long. As I crawled out from my sleeping bag and stood up, I saw a sight which changed my outlook on the Church and the world forever. The world is indeed "charged with the grandeur of God." - Chris Docherty, Thinking Faith
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07-Jul-2008
Father Pat Connor, a 79 year old Catholic priest born in Australia and
based in Bordentown, New Jersey, has spent his celibate life, including
nine years as a missionary in India, mulling connubial bliss. His
decades of marriage counseling led him to distill some "mostly common
sense" advice about how to dodge mates who would maul your happiness.
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10-Jul-2008
The morality of the Iraq war, nuclear weapons and defying governments through civil disobedience will be among the issues tackled at a World Youth Day forum about how young people can be peacemakers in today's war ravaged world.
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09-Jul-2008
Bondi Beach has been chosen as the venue for The Franciscan Youth Festival which is being held as part of the World Youth Day events. The day will be a magnificent celebration of Christian and interreligious unity with guest speakers and music artists from around the world.
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