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13-Aug-2008
A Kerala nun who hanged herself on Monday "was mentally and physically tortured" at her convent, her father claims.
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News
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15-Aug-2008
"There is war on the roadways of the entire world," Archbishop Agostino Marchetto of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People has warned in a call to reduce the number of road victims.
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15-Aug-2008
The Holy See has distanced itself from a warning in a Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana that Italy is in danger of returning to fascism.
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13-Aug-2008
Priests must know how to delegate and to "be a community of brothers" with their colleagues, Pope Benedict said in a holiday address to clergy last week.
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15-Aug-2008
Over 12,000 World Youth Day people responded to a survey by ACU and Monash University researchers seeking to understand the spirituality of pilgrims.
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14-Aug-2008
Pope Benedict has thanked Australia for its welcome during World Youth Day.
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12-Aug-2008
Eighteen World Youth Day pilgrims from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Kenya and Pakistan have now applied to the Australian government for political asylum.
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11-Aug-2008
Pope Benedict says that he was impressed with the "noisy" but joyful pilgrims at World Youth Day last month.
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13-Aug-2008
A Melbourne Catholic primary school teacher has raised eyebrows over a steamy photo shoot for a TV show.
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12-Aug-2008
Students at St Christopher's primary school at Airport West in Melbourne are finally turning up on time after the school installed barcodes on students bags.
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11-Aug-2008
ACU nursing graduates are caught up in a dispute between the university and the NSW Department of Health over nursing qualifications.
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News - National
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13-Aug-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has apologised and offered to meet abuse victim, Anthony Jones, over a "poorly drafted" letter but Jones has repudiated the apology as "not genuine".
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15-Aug-2008
Forty eight percent of Australia's preachers are over the age of 50, census figures show, according to demographer Bernard Salt, but there are also 16 Australians under 20 who described themselves as ministers of religion.
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14-Aug-2008
Australian Catholic University student Bethany Walsh will go for gold in Beijing next week in the Olympic synchronised swimming competition.
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15-Aug-2008
Days after Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone apologised for clergy abuse in the diocese, a local priest has been charged with 30 counts of abusing boys.
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14-Aug-2008
Lismore diocese and a local parish will foot the $700,000 bill for a technical college at Port Macquarie after the Federal government withdrew funding.
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13-Aug-2008
Vinnies volunteer Margaret Keyte and her husband Ken have been bashed to death at their new NSW South Coast home.
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13-Aug-2008
Murdered Sydney man, Doujon Zammit, who was killed on holiday in the Greek islands, has joined an "endless party" in heaven, funeral celebrant Fr Michael Smith said yesterday.
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11-Aug-2008
Bishop Chris Toohey, a keen astronomer, says he thought he had died and gone to heaven when Pope John Paul II appointed him to the clear sky diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes.
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11-Aug-2008
Five former students of a Brisbane Catholic school committed after being sexually abused by a priest, another alleged victim claims.
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15-Aug-2008
In a fresh blow to a drought stricken community, the historic Christian Brothers Agricultural College at Tardun in Western Australia's wheatbelt is to close after 80 years.
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14-Aug-2008
Four Western Australian men have come forward alleging abuse by Bunbury diocese priests during the 1960's and 1970's.
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News - International
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14-Aug-2008
Citing Catholic tradition and Jewish sensitivities with respect to the pronunciation of God's name, a Holy See directive has requested that liturgical texts including hymns no longer make reference to Yahweh.
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12-Aug-2008
The US archdiocese of Cincinatti has issued a new code of behaviour for priests that outlaws kissing, wrestling and even the tickling of children, but high fives are OK.
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11-Aug-2008
Seventeen American Vietnamese Catholics were killed on Friday when their bus skidded off the highway on the Texas-Oklahoma border.
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14-Aug-2008
Italian activists have petitioned Pope Benedict to stop wearing his ermine-trimmed hat and cape but a former Vatican official says there are more important issues to address.
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12-Aug-2008
Pope Benedict has appealed "in the name of a common Christian heritage" for an immediate end to fighting in Georgia and South Ossetia.
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12-Aug-2008
The Malaysian government has threatened the Muslim country's major Catholic newspaper with closure after the paper published articles allegedly "denigrating Islam".
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11-Aug-2008
An ancient manuscript says that Jesus played a bat and ball game that a Jerusalem scholar believes resembled cricket.
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11-Aug-2008
Two men convicted of killing American activist Sr Dorothy Stang have been granted weekend leave for Father's Day by a Brazilian court.
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Regulars
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15-Aug-2008
On 15 August 1808, Edmund Rice and eight companions proclaimed their Vows as Brothers of the Society of the Presentation. It was the culmination of much reflection, prayer and experience of life for Edmund, leading him to formalise his living as a Brother and a member of a religious congregation. - Br Peter Dowling, Edmund Rice Oceania
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14-Aug-2008
We need to believe that the Trinity is saving the world despite appearances. Our role is to play our part along with every man and woman of good will. Taking too much responsibility is unconvincing and reveals a lack of faith. If anything, we should give witness to the world’s need to live without messiahs. - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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13-Aug-2008
Much of the world has forgotten August 1945. Buried beneath our collective consciousness in the shallowest of graves, lies the uncomprehending knowledge that humanity now shares the planet with 26,000 nuclear weapons, most of them vastly more powerful than the devices of the 1940s. - Scott Ludlam, Online Opinion
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12-Aug-2008
There's much fear around. I'm generally concerned that the sky may fall in. I'm personally troubled that my super fund is going south. I'm particularly appalled by a recent report that 43 per ent of young people who became homeless in Australia before the age of 18 were formerly in the care of the state. - John Honner, Eureka Street
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11-Aug-2008
The recent 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae triggered a predictable flood of commentary yet the 30th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's death last week has been met with a fairly deafening silence. Paul's pontificate has essentially been reduced to its most controversial moment. Such summary dismissals are terribly unfair to a pope who was among the most consequential and most admirable Catholic personalities of the 20th century. - John L. Allen, National Catholic Reporter
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15-Aug-2008
Tyburn Convent is a monastery situated in the heart of London. The convent was originally established in 1910 on the site of Tyburn Tower, where many of the Catholic martyrs were slaughtered during the English Reformation. It was rebuilt in 1963, but still contains a a shrine dedicated to the English Reformation martyrs of Tyburn.
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14-Aug-2008
Melbourne's Catholic Theological College was established in 1972 and as part of the Melbourne College of Divinity it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in theology and ministry. For the past decade it has occupied the historic site of the former Parade College in East Melbourne.
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13-Aug-2008
Fresh from its official sponsorship of WYD, Catholic Church Insurances Limited is continuing to advertise and market itself to the wider Catholic community. Established in 1911, CCI is a wholly owned Church business and the primary provider of insurance services to the Australian Church and its agencies.
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12-Aug-2008
Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal society founded in Conneticut, USA in 1882. It is not just the world's largest Catholic insurer, it is also the largest Catholic lay organisation in the world with over 1.75 million members throughout North, South and Central America.
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11-Aug-2008
This website is a "sub-site" of the Adelaide archdiocese and belongs to its Office for Worship and in particular the adult catechumenate or RCIA program.
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14-Aug-2008
The Bonneville of the title is a 1966 automobile, one of those massive V8 convertibles that defined American cars in the days when petrol was a pittance. It is driven by three women on an odyssey from Pocatello Idaho to California to deliver an urn of ashes to a funeral service. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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11-Aug-2008
This is not just a film about sustainable living. It tracks a highly individual character who dares to take on all and sundry to communicate his message that architecture is about people having to battle with their environment in order to survive. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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12-Aug-2008
Twenty five thousand Balinese who were blind can now see because of one Australian man. But John Fawcett’s biggest challenge is convincing them that blindness isn’t God’s punishment.
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13-Aug-2008
All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed is the program name for this edition of The Rhythm Divine marking Friday's Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. Mary has been a source of musical inspiration for centuries and the program's music takes its inspiration from the life of Mary.
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15-Aug-2008
Logically and theologically, the Assumption is a deduction from the Immaculate Conception and, of course, from the Incarnation itself when the Blessed Virgin, according to the will of the First Person of the Trinity, bore in her body the Second Person of the Trinity by the operation of the Third Person of the Trinity. - Dr Peter Mullen, The Catholic Herald
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14-Aug-2008
When governments have adopted quick and simple solutions to complex educational problems, they have usually got it wrong and seem determined to continue doing so. It would be so much easier if schools were factories, created to produce easily measured, standardised products. But they are not. They are full of vibrant, growing, learning human beings, each with individual needs and background experiences. - Greg Whitby, The Sydney Morning Herald
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13-Aug-2008
Unfortunately, serious theological discussion in Catholicism these days faces the wrath of Catholic Conservatives. Asserting the Church is theologically "perfect," they claim Catholicism must not change anything pragmatically. This closed mindedness contrasts with Catholicism's thoughtful evolution through the ages. For Catholic Conservatives, it is all about text without context, because they are more Conservatives than they are Catholics. - Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Washington Post.com
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12-Aug-2008
We all yearn for someone to join ourselves to, inwardly and deeply, but yearning is one thing, allowing it to happen and paying the price for it is something else. Real intimacy is the most scary and demanding thing on the planet. We resist it as much as we invite it. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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11-Aug-2008
The just ordering of society and the state is a central responsibility of politics. As Augustine once said, a state which is not governed according to justice would be just a bunch of thieves. - Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Kairos Catholic Journal
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15-Aug-2008
Whether you have been married for a short time or a longer period, all married couples are invited to take up an opportunity to further explore their love and union. The Difference to Eternity program aims to create safe havens in relationships were couples can embrace difference.
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