News
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04-Sep-2008
Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, moved quickly to dispel doubts over the legitimacy of transplants raised by a L'Osservatore Romano article discussing the definition brain death.
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03-Sep-2008
The growing global gap between the world's rich and poor requires a Gospel approach to combating poverty, Vatican Cardinal Renato Martino said at a pan African conference in Tanzania.
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01-Sep-2008
Although migration has existed since the dawn of humanity, it has now become "an emergency", Pope Benedict said yesterday.
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05-Sep-2008
Two incognito European princes were among the pilgrims at World Youth Day, it has been revealed, while Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show the event attracted a record number of July tourists.
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02-Sep-2008
A foundation to promote the thought of Pope Benedict is to be launched, according to an announcement from the annual meeting of Pope Benedict's former student circle.
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02-Sep-2008
An American Catholic university is launching a theology major designed to provide skills for careers in business and law as well as Church related work.
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05-Sep-2008
Pope Benedict is a card carrying organ donor, the Italian Association of Organ Donors says.
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03-Sep-2008
The Vatican City state does not use certification of brain death, an article in L'Osservatore Romano says, because this would tend to equate the human person with brain function.
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04-Sep-2008
Northern New South Wales sculptor David Tucker has won this year's Blake Prize for a work depicting a procession of pregnant women inspired by Hindu, ancient Egytian and pre-Renaissance Christian sources.
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News - National
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05-Sep-2008
Vincentian Congregation leader, Fr Greg Cooney, yesterday apologised for "any harm that comes to anyone while they have been under our care."
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05-Sep-2008
Popular All Saints TV actor, Mark Priestley, was farewelled at a Catholic funeral in Perth yesterday following the actor's suicide in Sydney last week.
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04-Sep-2008
In a public statement published on the internet, Campion College president, Fr John Fleming, has denied knowledge of any police investigation and rebutted accusations against him by three people.
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04-Sep-2008
New South Wales police yesterday arrested Vincentian Br John Gaven and a 65 year old priest as further charges were laid over offences alleged to have occurred at Bathurst's St Stanislaus College in the 1970s and 1980s.
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04-Sep-2008
Retired Bunbury Bishop Peter Quinn was buried yesterday after a funeral service held at Bunbury Catholic College.
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03-Sep-2008
Former St Stanislaus school chaplain and teacher, Brian Spillane, is facing a further 60 charges but his lawyer says that his client emphatically denies the allegations.
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02-Sep-2008
Four Catholic churches in central Tasmania are to be sold as part of a plan to "rationalise pastoral care".
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01-Sep-2008
New South Wales will be vulnerable to attempts to weaken laws protecting unborn children and women if the Abortion Bill now before Victoria's parliament passes, Sydney archdiocese policy officer, Dr Brigid McKenna says.
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01-Sep-2008
The order of the cosmos or "creation" convinces him of the existence of God, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.
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01-Sep-2008
Adelaide priest and Campion College President, Fr John Fleming, has denied wrongdoing and said that he is sickened by allegations against him.
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05-Sep-2008
The Australian Catholic Students Association has condemned legislation currently before the Victorian Parliament which will decriminalise abortion up to 24 weeks as well as forcing medical professionals to perform an abortion if the mother's life is at risk.
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01-Sep-2008
A St Mary's South Brisbane priest wore an alb and stole at Mass yesterday for the first time in many years, a report says.
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News - International
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02-Sep-2008
A US company has launched what it claims to be the world's first exclusively internet TV station.
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05-Sep-2008
Singer Sir Cliff Richard has revealed his close friendship with a former Catholic priest whom he describes as his "companion" and who shares his home.
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04-Sep-2008
An Italian priest has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in compensation for "biological damage" and social disruption caused by his church bells.
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03-Sep-2008
A Spanish judge has petitioned the Catholic Church for records of people who disappeared during the 1936-39 Civil War and during the rule of General Francisco Franco.
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01-Sep-2008
Vietnam's Redemptorist province has accused the Government of orchestrating a media assault on its Hanoi community in a dispute over land.
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03-Sep-2008
As India's Catholic Bishops expressed shock over reports of Christians being forced to convert to Hinduism, Mother Teresa's successor, Sr Nirmala, issued an appeal saying religion is "meant to be a work of love".
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02-Sep-2008
Freed former hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged Pope Benedict during an emotional meeting at Castelgandolfo yesterday.
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02-Sep-2008
A Costa Rican Catholic priest who has been convicted of fraud is fighting to continue broadcasting his radio show from jail.
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03-Sep-2008
Five hundred have attended the funeral of a Fiji priest who drowned last week while trying to save a religious brother at a remote beach.
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Regulars
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05-Sep-2008
The Vatican has ordered an outspoken Bloc Québécois MP to quit his seat in the House of Commons and return to his job as a Roman Catholic priest. Father Raymond Gravel said the decision was due to a backlash in English Canada over his "misinterpreted" comments on abortion, but that he had no choice but to follow his original calling.
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04-Sep-2008
Sister of Mercy Claudette Cusack could only stand by in shock and watch as the Bakhtiari family, Australia’s highest profile asylum seekers, were whisked away in the middle of the night and deported to Pakistan in 2005. “It was dreadful,” she said, still shamed by the decision and the treatment by the Australian Government of so many people seeking asylum. - The Southern Cross
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03-Sep-2008
Busyness has become something of a disease of the modern world. For so many, taking the time out even to spend time with family and friends is often a distant second or third priority. It is in this society that the reality TV show The Monastery found its place. A group of Benedictine monks from Worth Abbey in the UK were approached in 2004 about the possibility of a show featuring monastic life. - Beth Doherty, Australian Catholics
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02-Sep-2008
Where do we get our idea of belonging from? What is true belonging? It would seem that the origin of belonging is rooted in place. For Aboriginal people, each child awakens on the earth in a particular place. This place was, and remains, full of presence and meaning for us. Where you belong is where you inevitably continue to return. - Elizabeth Pike, Madonna
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01-Sep-2008
Palin appears to be part of that rapidly expanding galaxy of “post-denominational” Christianity, where elements of Evangelical and Pentecostal styles of faith and worship fuse into a myriad of unique local combinations, and where old denominational loyalties are essentially dead. - John Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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05-Sep-2008
The benchmark for parish websites has now been set. Our Lady Star of the Sea parish is in the Auckland suburb of Howick. One of New Zealand's oldest Catholic parishes, its website is perhaps the country's, and Australasia's finest parish site.
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04-Sep-2008
It was only a few short months ago that we featured this new website for the De La Salle Brothers. However, the site is now even more updated with information and video about the Brothers and the life of a Brother.
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03-Sep-2008
St Mary's is a medium sized residential college at the University of Melbourne operating in the Loreto/Catholic tradition. Initally a female only college, it has been open to both sexes for over 30 years.
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02-Sep-2008
Rome based Fr John Zuhlsdorf blogs on this website. The moderator of the Catholic Online forum is noted for his black and white approach to Catholic doctrine and liturgical issues.
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01-Sep-2008
The Life Office is an agency within the Archdiocese of Sydney and is established to extend the research, policy and educational activities the Church undertakes in life and related issues. These include pro-life issues generally, but with particular attention to abortion and euthanasia, as well as reproductive technology, embryo experimentation, genetics, family planning, population and other issues.
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01-Sep-2008
Mexican director, Guillermo del Toro, must love the Hellboy comics. Not only did he write and direct the very successful and imaginative Hellboy in 2004, he has written and directed this sequel and as with all his films, especially the Oscar winning Pan's Labyrinth, has imagined the extraordinary and sumptuous fantasy locations and creatures that abound here. Visually, Hellboy II is a treat. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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05-Sep-2008
Every year millions of refugees escape civil war and human rights violations in search of a new homeland. Roughly 13,000 are accepted into Australia. But what happens once they arrive? This SBS TV Cutting Edge documentary provides some answers.
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03-Sep-2008
When the Pope Benedict came to Sydney recently for World Youth Day, Sister Johanna of the Cross came out of her 45 years of seclusion in a Carmelite convent to recruit new postulants for the order and to visit her family. In God Knows Why Part 2, she is accompanied by her niece as she meets, greets, visits and explores the outside world for the first time in nearly five decades.
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02-Sep-2008
In A Long Retreat, Andrew Krivak has given us a book that deserves to be read thoughtfully and reflectively. It would be a great mistake to assume that ‘retreat’ implies Krivak was retreating from something, drawing back, for example, from a call to priestly and religious life. - Fr Gero McLoughlin, Thinking Faith
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05-Sep-2008
It is worth thinking for a moment of all the people who bring fun into our lives. They give us life, and we should thank God for them. What we laugh at we can rise above. Humour and hope are inseparable companions.
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04-Sep-2008
In the Roman Catholic church, liberation theology has highlighted the injustices of structural sin, such as poverty, and encouraged Catholics to act for social change. Its influence can be found in movements such as Make Poverty History and the Jubilee Debt Campaign. All the modern popes have urged Catholics to make social justice as much a part of being Catholic as going to Mass. - Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian
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03-Sep-2008
The casual consumer of current affairs could be forgiven for concluding we are all going to hell in a handbasket. Tthe never ending procession of depressing stories report that there is a rainforest disappearing here or a famine there. With all this gloom it is a rare person who thinks that, by and large, the massive gains in health and wealth over the past century will be repeated in this one. - Louise Staley, MercatorNet
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02-Sep-2008
My father told the story of being taken out of school a hundred years ago by the local curate to drive his fast stepping horse in a gig down a long straight racetrack of a road on the way to a funeral in a neighbouring town while he said his Office. On arrival he would unharness, feed and water the horse, then act as altar boy. - Pat Power, Marist Messenger
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01-Sep-2008
Australia is a wealthier country than it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago, and in the process the top private schools have become not merely elite schools but wealthy schools. With wealth comes the danger of hubris, especially among the young, many of whom have not learned how to handle the privileges that come with prosperity. - Paul Sheehan, The Sydney Morning Herald
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04-Sep-2008
In response to the proposed decriminalisation of abortion legislation due for debate in the Victorian parliament next week, St Anthony's Shrine at Hawthorn in Melbourne will host seven Masses and 40 hours of prayer and adoration to stop the proposed legislation.
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