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14-Jul-2008
Chaldean Iraqi Bishop Philip Najim has accused the Australian government officials of "mistrust and bureaucracy" in approving only 30 out of over 170 visa applications for World Youth Day.
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News
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14-Jul-2008
The USA once again topped contributions to the annual Peter's Pence collection in 2007 but the weak American dollar led the Vatican to a $US14.3 million operating loss.
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18-Jul-2008
On arrival at Barangaroo, Sydney for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict praised Australia for its recent "courageous" apology to aborigines and challenged young people to take responsibility for modern challenges including the environment and the internet.
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18-Jul-2008
Three Indian WYD pilgrims who went missing in New Zealand say that they will expose swindlers who allegedly tricked them into believing they would be allowed to stay.
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17-Jul-2008
When she meets Pope Benedict, North Sydney Sr Anne Derwin will "quietly whisper" in his ear that Australia is waiting for Blessed Mary MacKillop to be canonised.
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17-Jul-2008
As Pope Benedict prepares for his official arrival in Sydney tonight, WYD organisers will today host a major interfaith summit.
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16-Jul-2008
Cardinal George Pell told a colourful crowd of 150,000 at yesterday's World Youth Day opening Mass in Sydney's Barangaroo district to forgo "fat, relentless egos" and make a commitment to a life of love and resurrection.
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16-Jul-2008
The Federal Court yesterday upheld a challenge by two students against special WYD laws that allowed police to detain people for "annoying" behaviour.
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15-Jul-2008
In a celebration of the start of WYD, organisers last night projected images of Pope Benedict and the Australian outback on Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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14-Jul-2008
Following a mid-flight media conference in which he exhorted young people to take responsibility for the environment, Pope Benedict arrived in Sydney yesterday after a brief stopover in Darwin.
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17-Jul-2008
Pope Benedict has backed a "right to water" in a call for national and international solidarity on water related issues.
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16-Jul-2008
With participants walking and using transport to get to most venues, World Youth Day will be the lowest polluting major event per capita ever hosted in Sydney, WYD coordinator Bishop Anthony Fisher says.
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15-Jul-2008
Adelaide Archbishop and ACBC President Philip Wilson says the effects of climate change are clear to pastors in his diocese and that action is needed so "we learn to live in this land".
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16-Jul-2008
Traditionalist Scottish monks close to the Society of St Pius X have rejoined Rome after canonical suspensions on their priests were lifted.
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15-Jul-2008
Brazilian liberation theologians Leonardo and Fr Clodovis Boff have split after the latter published an article critical of what he describes as "the principal error" of liberation theology.
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14-Jul-2008
Investor and founder of the religious equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, Sir John Marks Templeton, has died aged 95.
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17-Jul-2008
Catholic Social Services and other agencies have welcomed a commitment by the Federal Government to ensure that poor people are not adversely impacted by carbon pollution reduction strategies.
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18-Jul-2008
Catholic Health Australia has warned that tax changes raising the threshold of the health insurance tax penalty to $100,000 will force 200,000 people who dropped their health cover back on to public hospital waiting lists.
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News - National
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18-Jul-2008
On a visit to Mary MacKillop's tomb yesterday, Pope Benedict said she will be canonised but one more confirmed miracle is still needed.
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18-Jul-2008
Geelong priest Fr Kevin Dillon yesterday called on priests to stop trivialising sexual abuse allegations while Sydney's Fr Chris Riley says that the Church's Towards Healing process is a joke and should be scrapped.
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18-Jul-2008
A survey for Catholic superannuation provider CSRF shows that younger people still share the aspirations of their parents and grandparents for a secure financial future.
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17-Jul-2008
WYD Coordinator Bishop Anthony Fisher has stirred up a hornet's nest with comments criticising people concerned with clerical abuse for "dwelling crankily on old wounds".
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16-Jul-2008
The parents of two girls raped repeatedly by a now deceased Melbourne priest are flying from the UK to confront Sydney Cardinal and former Melbourne Archbishop George Pell.
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15-Jul-2008
Catholic Social Services head, Frank Quinlan, says last week's $21.66 Federal Minimum Wage increase will merely cover recent CPI increases for minimum wage workers but other workers will receive a much less significant increase.
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15-Jul-2008
"No western country is producing enough babies for a stable population," Sydney Cardinal George Pell said yesterday.
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14-Jul-2008
Over 1,500 responses to a recent CathNews reader survey was an amazing result and a ringing endorsement of the service provided by the newsletter to Australian Catholics, according to the Executive Director of Church Resources, Fr Michael Kelly.
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News - International
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15-Jul-2008
A 73 year old US nun, Sr Barbara Markey, has been sentenced to three years jail for embezzling up to $800,000 from the Archdiocese of Omaha.
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14-Jul-2008
An American biology professor has called on people to send him consecrated hosts that he plans to publicly desecrate.
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16-Jul-2008
In a further sign that 19th century English convert and Cardinal John Henry Newman may soon be beatified, the Holy See has requested that his body be exhumed and placed in the Birmingham Oratory.
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17-Jul-2008
A year after it was released, Pope Benedict's letter to Chinese Catholics has achieved some positive results but more remains to be done, commentators say.
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Regulars
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18-Jul-2008
It is certain that one consequence of World Youth Day will be an increase in attendance at parish liturgies by people, young and old, who have been touched by the events of the past week. How can parishes ensure that newcomers as well as regular Mass goers are nourished through their participation in communal worship? - Elizabeth Harrington, Liturgy Lines
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17-Jul-2008
Our appetite for novelty is being constantly stimulated and we embrace the latest information technology with unbounded enthusiasm. Instant information can help to give us a global perspective and open us up to a greater appreciation of our world and its peoples. St Paul himself would surely have rejoiced at the opportunities now available for spreading the Word, opportunities for reaching out to peoples of other faiths and cultures. - St Columban's Mission Society E-News
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16-Jul-2008
True ethics, based on the moral practice of Jesus, have little to do with pragmatism, policy assessments or social engineering. They have to do with fidelity and consistency, love and peace. True ethics understand that we cannot have both morality and immorality, but that we must put on the mind of the nonviolent Jesus and strive with all our will toward the ever deeper truth of nonviolence. - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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15-Jul-2008
I am a young Catholic and I would like to apologise for my faith. By apology I do not mean an expression of regret. Rather, I am referring to the Greek origin of the word, meaning to defend. - Rachael Patterson, The Sydney Morning Herald
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14-Jul-2008
Countless young people throughout the world have rediscovered their faith through a World Youth Day experience. There are also many who have found their vocation—either to marriage, the priesthood or religious life. My hope and prayer is that similar fruits will be born in Sydney, for Australia and our region first of all, and in all the countries to which the pilgrims will return after the Holy Father has departed. - Cardinal George Pell, New Springtime
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18-Jul-2008
The Trading Circle is a well known "brand" in Catholic circles and is an initiative of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Australia and New Zealand. It aims to support women in micro-enterprises trade their way out of poverty.
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17-Jul-2008
The Catholic Adult Education Centre is an agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. Its aim is to help adult Catholics grow in the understanding of their faith so as to integrate faith and life and be more effective in evangelisation.
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16-Jul-2008
From the creator of www.womeninthebible.com and www.bible-topten.com this website is a sub-site of the latter created specifically for World Youh Day. It's about young people in Bible stories, such as Jesus in the Temple, Jairus' 12 year old daughter and the young Samuel among several others.
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15-Jul-2008
The count down is officially over, it is here, it has arrived! WYD08, several years in the planning and billed as the biggest event ever hosted in Australia, commences today and concludes on Sunday with a Final Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI and festival events at Randwick Racecourse.
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14-Jul-2008
The Catholic Bushwalking Club of NSW has over 400 members and marked its 65th year in 2008. The club holds regular weekend and mid-week walks and like Catholic bushwalking groups in other states, its purposes vary from fostering an appreciation of a range of factors such as nature, wildlife and fitness within a Catholic context.
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18-Jul-2008
Married Life is a movie with many twists and turns and it places its characters in situations where they interweave in darkly comic ways. The film is really a period drama of manners that aims to model itself in part on Alfred Hitchcock's movies in their association of criminal innuendo with sexual mores. But whereas Hitchcock carries off his dark pieces in effortless style, this one flounders a little in the mix of the several moral dilemmas it creates along the way. - Peter Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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15-Jul-2008
A bizarre melange of Eastern mysticism and ice hockey, The Love Guru is the new vehicle for Canadian comedy star Mike Myers who also produced and co-wrote it. So anyone who didn't revel in Austin Powers should exercise extreme caution. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Fil and Broadcasting
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14-Jul-2008
On the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI's World Youth Day visit, Geraldine Doogue in a two part Compass special examines thorny issues facing the Catholic Church in Australia: the crisis in the priesthood, and the role of women in the Church.
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16-Jul-2008
Premier Christian Radio terrestrially broadcasts to London and southeastern England and is part of the Premier Christian Media group which involves a TV station, magazines and related websites. It can also be heard via the internet.
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18-Jul-2008
Bishops of the Anglican Communion have gathered for the Lambeth Conference, which has begun with a retreat. But the calm atmosphere of prayer and contemplation evoked by the word seems to be in strong contrast with the rancorous character of the preliminaries. There does not seem to be much grace about the place, and with grace comes respect. - The Tablet
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17-Jul-2008
To spell out the difference between Protestant and Catholic Christians people make jokes, write books, create aphorisms. Most of them are pretty unhelpful. But one of the more thought provoking is the insight that Protestantism is a religion of the ear, whereas Catholicism is a religion of the eye. - Fr Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
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16-Jul-2008
The Federal Court's decision to overturn the anti-annoyance regulation might seem to be a clear victory for the activists. This is an incorrect reading of the case. The court did not strike down the law because it infringed basic rights. It fell over on a technicality that can easily be repaired. - George Williams and Nicola McGarrity, The Sydney Morning Herald
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15-Jul-2008
Today we are considerably more casual and careless about observing the Sabbath and we are poorer, both religiously and humanly, because of this. Much of our tiredness and sense of being over-burdened comes from not having a regular Sabbath in our lives. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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14-Jul-2008
Will WYD change Australian Catholicism? Personally, I doubt it. It will do nothing to confront the deep seated problems that Australian Catholicism faces. Fundamental structural change doesn't happen through big events but through deep reflection, careful planning and, above all, through creative and inspirational leadership. - Paul Collins, The Age
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17-Jul-2008
The Stations of the Cross is a prayerful re-enactment of the last days of Jesus' life, and will take place in Sydney on Friday July 18. This is one of the highlights of WYD08, a live theatrical and devotional event which will be held in the afternoon. The city will be transformed into an outdoor cathedral.
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