News
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18-Sep-2008
The Holy See has granted diplomatic asylum to a 34 year old former student and political dissident who is wanted by the Venezuelan government on charges of attempted murder and lascivious acts against a female police officer.
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18-Sep-2008
Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos has accused some traditionalists of "insatiable" and "incredible" demands in relation to the celebration of the Tridentine Mass.
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17-Sep-2008
A senior Vatican official yesterday said the Catholic Church will not apologise for religious controversies over Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution.
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15-Sep-2008
The arrival of 250,000 World Youth Day pilgrims from over 100 countries may be to blame for exotic strains of flu circulating in Australia, a medical researcher says.
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19-Sep-2008
Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliott has told a national conference of Catholic ageing service providers that demographic changes will have a significant impact on the number of older Australians who require care in the future.
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16-Sep-2008
Catholic Health Australia and other health services providers are concerned at a possible jump in power bills for hospitals under a national emissions trading scheme.
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News - National
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19-Sep-2008
Retired University of Notre Dame Australia vice-chancellor, Dr Peter Tannock, has been awarded a papal knighthood in recognition of his lifelong work for Catholic education and the Catholic Church.
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19-Sep-2008
Caritas Australia today says farewell to its longest ever member of staff, Ms Therese Ruhl who is ending her 32 year reign as receptionist and more recently office manager.
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18-Sep-2008
Church Resources Executive Director Fr Michael Kelly has been appointed as director of the Bangkok based Asian Catholic news agency, UCAN.
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18-Sep-2008
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has announced a national review of what Australians think about freedom of religion and belief.
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17-Sep-2008
In this year's Social Justice Statement to be released today Australia's Catholic Bishops slam consumerism and the emergence of a severely disadvantaged underclass.
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17-Sep-2008
The Federal Government should provide an amnesty for victims of trafficking now living illegally in Australia, a coalition of Catholic women religious says.
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15-Sep-2008
Retired Sydney Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's controversial book, Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church, has now sold 10,000 copies in Australia, its publisher says.
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18-Sep-2008
A group of ex-students from Melbourne's Parade College have written to another old boy Victorian MP, Wade Noonan, to say that he will not be welcomed at a college function after the parliamentarian voted in favour of the Abortion Law Reform Bill.
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16-Sep-2008
Three former St Stanislas College Bathurst priests have pleaded not guilty to a total of 125 abuse related charges while their lawyer has described media publicity given to the case as a "witch hunt".
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15-Sep-2008
Archbishop John Bathersby has announced a year long celebration for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
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News - International
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19-Sep-2008
A Rome interfaith symposium organised by US Catholics and Jews has backed the record of Pope Pius XII with documents showing the World War II pope intervened publicly and privately to save Jews.
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16-Sep-2008
Australian Christian Brothers have introduced new programs in the Philippines and in Kenya for high school aged teenagers who have dropped out of school.
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15-Sep-2008
Pope Benedict has requested the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to draw up new guidelines for the recognition of claims of apparitions of Our Lady.
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19-Sep-2008
Prejudices are either born or broken in the family home, Pope Benedict yesterday told the new Bosnia-Herzegovina ambassador to the Holy See.
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18-Sep-2008
A Polish theologian and ecumenist is facing a "collision" with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after refusing to publish an "approved retraction" of an article criticising the Vatican's attitude to other denominations.
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17-Sep-2008
Without the sick, Lourdes would become a "Catholic Disneyland", Lourdes Bishop Jacques Perrier says.
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16-Sep-2008
Addressing French bishops in Lourdes, Pope Benedict reaffirmed the Church could not recognise "irregular unions" of Catholics who divorce and remarry outside the Church.
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15-Sep-2008
Speaking to French bishops in Paris, Pope Benedict has warned of the dangers of a growing split over the use of the traditional Latin Mass and appealed for tolerance.
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19-Sep-2008
An Australian priest has testified that execution by shooting is torture in a case brought before Indonesia's Constitutional Court by the convicted Bali bombers.
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17-Sep-2008
Australia's Redemptorist community have written to their Vietnamese counterparts expressing concern over the failure by local authorities to observe fundamental legal rights and due process in the ongoing property dispute at Hanoi's Thai Ha parish.
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15-Sep-2008
Parishioners at a Kuala Lumpur parish are holding a vigil for a Member of Parliament and practising Catholic, Teresa Kok, who has been detained under the country's Internal Security Act.
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15-Sep-2008
Hanoi authorities have failed to keep their promises to the parish of Thai Ha, the provincial of the Redemptorists in Vietnam says.
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16-Sep-2008
Christian-Hindu tension has gripped the southern Indian state of Karnataka after Christians protested attacks on local churches and religious communities.
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17-Sep-2008
Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have welcomed the signing of a power sharing agreement between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Regulars
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19-Sep-2008
Muslims and Christians who live at the centre of the Western world can take steps to change their way of thinking about themselves and begin to understand their situation as an opportunity to take on the responsibility of expressing and living out the values they hold in a more cooperative way. This would make their voice more audible and credible and they could make a more significant contribution to the welfare of the whole world. - Fr Herman Roborgh, Province Express
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18-Sep-2008
Once a reliable Democratic voting bloc, Catholics have emerged as a pivotal swing vote in recent presidential races. Catholics make up about a quarter of the national electorate and about a third in the pivotal battleground states of Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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17-Sep-2008
When everything is flat it takes a strong message to awaken hope. Zimbabweans are down flat but they have not despaired. In fact their resilience is remarked on with admiration by observers. It shows itself in the unfailing humour with which every new twist in the ongoing catastrophe is announced. But it does make people hard to convince and unwilling to get excited about news of an "agreement." - Fr David Harold-Barry, Thinking Faith
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16-Sep-2008
The Sacrament of Penance is surely the most under-utilized of the Church’s sacraments. This is inevitable in the age of “I’m OK, you’re OK.” But our failure to use the sacrament well is an important obstacle to holiness. Since we do believe, we ought to take seriously the need to seek God's forgiveness each time we sin. - Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture
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15-Sep-2008
There's no doubt that the Genesis edict to "subdue the earth and multiply" has been taken to heart and acted upon by homo sapiens with great gusto. A global population of one billion at the start of the 20th century has risen to six and a half and is headed for nine billion by 2050 at current rates of expansion. - Mark Dowd, The Catholic Herald
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19-Sep-2008
Corpus Christi College is the training seminary for priests of the diocese of Victoria and Tasmania. While now situated in Carlton in inner city Melbourne, it has enjoyed an interesting and divergent geographical history which is well documented on the pages of its website.
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18-Sep-2008
National Church Life Survey is so much more than the occasional survey that takes place at our place of worship. This website proves it with a range of practical resources to help churches and their leaders connect with their communities.
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17-Sep-2008
Abergowie College is a Catholic secondary boarding college in the Herbert River Valley west of Ingham in North Queensland. Its students are predominately indigenous Australians and from Papua New Guinea. The college has just had its 75th anniversary weekend celebrations to mark its founding by the Christian Brothers as St Teresa's Agricultural College in 1933.
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16-Sep-2008
Leave Nothing Undared is the bold statement that welcomes visitors to the website of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Their website contains a number of affiliates sites including the well known Rosies network and details about their activities in 11 parishes and several schools throughout Australia.
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15-Sep-2008
Brisbane's burgeoning baby boom post-World War II provided one of the impetuses for the creation of Padua College, a Catholic boys day college for Year 5 to 12, in the city's northern suburbs in 1956. Since this time the college, under the care of the Franciscan Friars, has maintained a strong enrolment and a healthy reputation for its sporting and academic programs.
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18-Sep-2008
At least the title gets one's attention. Angus is a cat. A catty girl wears thongs. And, perfect snogging is a 14 year old girl's idea of a dream kiss. It should also be said that it is a "nice" kind of comedy with an air of innocence, where perfect snogging is the ultimate in relationships between the sexes. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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16-Sep-2008
This SBS documenatary follows a 26 year old former Catholic who moves in with Australia's most controversial Muslim figure, Sheik Taj El Hilaly in order to learn more about the cleric, Islam and the Australian-Muslim community. They form an odd couple, but inseparable duo for the few weeks they share together.
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17-Sep-2008
This edition of The Ark focuses on Pope Pius XII and asks the question whether or not he was the Nazi pope. The papacy of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi takeover of Europe has long been criticised by some historians for its ineffective response to Hitler and its silence during the persecution of European Jews.
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15-Sep-2008
In this philosophically intelligent but sociologically naive book the American philosopher Austin Dacey argues against the expulsion of belief, whether or not religious, from the public sphere, and against subjectivist theories of ethics making that plausible. As a secularist, he laments the decline of the great tradition of secular liberalism reaching back to Spinoza and coming to fruition in John Locke, Adam Smith and J.S. Mill. - David Martin, The Tablet
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19-Sep-2008
The decision to leave the issue of maternity leave up to labour market developments has put Australia once more with the USA into the same negative category: they are the only two developed countries without a national paid maternity leave scheme. It is simply not enough just to introduce a law that creates the possibility of maternity leave. - Katarina Ferro, abc.net.au
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18-Sep-2008
The aim of the Sexual Revolution was to open up the way for people to be sexually active without consequence, without future responsibility and without the need for the lifetime commitment of marriage. Contraception and abortion played a key role in this. It is clear that future generations are paying the price for this "liberation". The promotion of contraception and abortion has led to a subconscious belief that children are not a gift to help further the world but a burden on parents, society and the environment. - Natalie Thomas, The Record
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17-Sep-2008
Several times each week I receive news graphically illustrating the injustices suffered by refugees or trafficked people, on problems caused by racism, genetically modified foods, water problems, civil war, natural disasters and so forth. I am sympathetic to these causes but often my spirits droop. There are so many issues and I feel overwhelmed. I am tempted to shut out the pain of the world and retreat to a private spiritual world or to become comfortably and selfishly cynical. What can I do? - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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16-Sep-2008
I propose that the most fundamental human right of all is a child’s right to be born from natural biological origins and that children have human rights with respect to their biological parents and families and that these rights must be recognised. Children must move from being the "voiceless citizens" and nowhere is that more important than with respect to rights regarding their biological origins and biological families. - Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet
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15-Sep-2008
In his ministry on earth, Jesus included rather than excluded people. Shepherds, women, publicans, sinners, people from other countries - all found a place in the heart of Jesus. The outcast Samaritan was the only one of the 10 cured lepers who returned to give thanks to Christ and it was a Samaritan who stopped to help the injured man on the wayside while religious representatives passed him by. - Bishop Kevin Manning, Catholic Outlook
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19-Sep-2008
Australian Human Rights Centre’s Annual Public Lecture 2008 will address the topic Human Rights and Reconciliation: Bridging the gap in times of transition. It will be given by Professor Stephan Parmentier from the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Professor Parmentier is an international expert in political crimes and transitional justice.
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