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03-Oct-2008
Anti-terrorism laws should not be unjust or inhumane, Pope Benedict warned yesterday.
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01-Oct-2008
Vatican Gendarme Corps chief, Domenico Giani, has announced that the corps will join Interpol.
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01-Oct-2008
Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has blamed the short term search for profit for the current financial crisis.
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29-Sep-2008
The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education has released new norms for religious education institutes in an effort to guarantee the quality of education and to facilitate international recognition of degrees.
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29-Sep-2008
Noting the 30th anniversary yesterday of the death of Pope John Paul I, Pope Benedict yesterday called on Catholics to cultivate the late pontiff's humility.
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02-Oct-2008
Thirty one Sydney World Youth Day pilgrims whose visas have expired are still in Australia in a total of 974 pilgrims who have not yet left the country.
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30-Sep-2008
As Pope Benedict again called on young people to defend nature from a "correct ecological perspective", the first solar panels have been installed on the Paul VI auditorium at the Vatican.
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News - National
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03-Oct-2008
Queensland Catholic hospitals could be forced to disobey the law as a flow on from proposed changes to abortion laws in Victoria, a leading Catholic bioethicist has warned.
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02-Oct-2008
Sydney Archdiocese is backing a call by Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart for a Day of Intercession for the defeat of Victoria's abortion law reform bill.
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01-Oct-2008
Former New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma will join the board of Catholic Healthcare.
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01-Oct-2008
The number of marriages is growing, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says, but the overall marriage rate is down and church weddings continue to decline as a proportion.
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03-Oct-2008
The Catholic Church in Melbourne has received 350 sex abuse complaints over 12 years and has paid out an estimated $6 million in compensation, an investigation has found.
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30-Sep-2008
A group of more than 100 doctors has warned that Victoria could face an exodus of health professionals if the abortion law reform bill is passed.
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29-Sep-2008
Catholic Health Australia will challenge the legal validity of contentious conscientious objection provisions if Victoria's abortion law bill is passed, reports say.
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03-Oct-2008
The Society of St Vincent de Paul is building a $6 million accommodation facility on Queensland's Gold Coast that will cater mainly for single fathers.
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03-Oct-2008
Former West Coast Eagles Australian football star and TV sports presenter, Chris Mainwaring, who died tragically a year ago aged 41, was remembered at a memorial Mass in Perth this week.
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News - International
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30-Sep-2008
The Pontifical Biblical Commission has published a new document entitled "The Bible and Morality" ahead of the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the Word of God.
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02-Oct-2008
Italian media companies are preparing a cartoon and mini-series that will portray the life of Opus Dei founder Saint Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer as the organisation marks the 80th anniversary of its launch in 1928.
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01-Oct-2008
Pro-life group Human Life International has launched a campaign to St Michael to pray for the conversion of abortionists.
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29-Sep-2008
Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga has told the United Nations that a lack of leadership is delaying the achievement of Millennium Development Goals and appealed to leaders of industrial nations to lower carbon emissions.
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29-Sep-2008
Facing repair bills mounting to millions of dollars, the Canadian diocese of London, Ontario, has put up three churches for sale for one dollar apiece.
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02-Oct-2008
Catholics feel less pain than atheists and agnostics after contemplating the Virgin Mary, UK scientists have found.
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01-Oct-2008
Future pope Joseph Ratzinger "did not attend Hitler Youth meetings", his brother Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, says, and his family suffered economically as a result.
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02-Oct-2008
Hanoi Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet is virtually under house arrest with phone spying equipment and cameras deployed openly from buildings near his residence.
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29-Sep-2008
The Vietnamese Catholic Community in Australia has denounced the persecution of Catholic faithful in Hanoi and appealed to the Vietnamese government to return seized Church property to its rightful owner.
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03-Oct-2008
Marine archaeologists working in Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered what may be the earliest reference to Jesus with a bowl referring to Christ "the magician".
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30-Sep-2008
As hundreds of Christians marched in protest against new election laws, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk has launched an appeal to the new Iraqi government and to the United Nations for the protection of Christians and other minorities in the troubled nation.
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30-Sep-2008
India's Orissa state government has been accused of failing to take action against the perpetrators of the gang rape of a 28 year old Catholic nun.
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30-Sep-2008
Despite opposition from the nation's Catholic bishops, Ecuador's voters have approved a new constitution proposed by President Rafael Correa.
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Regulars
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03-Oct-2008
Three years ago, Geoffrey Boisi set out to improve the way the Roman Catholic Church was being run in America. The former vice-chairman of JPMorgan Chase, Boisi had become increasingly dismayed with how the Church was losing members, squandering talent, and managing the $105 billion it annually spends. Its reputation was declining quickly amid screaming headlines about sex abuse scandals. - BusinessWeek
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02-Oct-2008
Guardini's books nourished the most lively segment of Catholic thought during the 1900s. And one of his students was special, he's the current pope. When he was a student not much over the age of twenty, Joseph Ratzinger had the chance not only to read, but also to listen in person to the man he chose as his great "master." - www.chiesa
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01-Oct-2008
The preacher is in the business of the cure of souls. As has been the case in all ages our souls are damaged by wrong thought. We seek our lives in the wrong places and by the wrong means and we become the living dead. It is the preachers business to indulge in truthful speech even if that speech, or particularly if that speech, scares the bejesus out of his listeners. - Peter Sellick, Online Opinion
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30-Sep-2008
To be human is to be inadequate, by definition. Only God is adequate and the rest of us can safely say to ourselves: Fear not you are inadequate! But a God who made us this way surely gives us the slack, the forgiveness, and the grace we need to work with this. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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29-Sep-2008
Every time we run into financial difficulties we hear the old allegation that capitalism is unjust, immoral and certainly not compatible with Christianity, which is all about loving our neighbour - not about trying to put him out of business. Capitalism is represented as red in tooth and claw, a harsh and unfair system in which many are forced to the wall by the excessive greed of high financiers. - Fr Peter Mullen, The Catholic Herald
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03-Oct-2008
Since last featuring the website of the Sydney archdiocese's Catholic Education Office, the site has had a makeover and now presents a strong news and features focus which is what you may expect from an organisation representing such a large number of schools.
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02-Oct-2008
The Broken Bay Institute (BBI) is a regular advertiser on CathNews and it has an interesting and symbolic history. BBI provides the largest offering of distance programs in spirituality and theology in Australia. It is a major activity of the Diocese of Broken Bay and Bishop David Walker is the institute's Patron.
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01-Oct-2008
Today marks the first anniversary of the Oceania Province of the Christian Brothers. It was formed from the amalgamation of the four Australian provinces and the New Zealand province as well as the regions of Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. It also includes the Cook Islands and East Timor.
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30-Sep-2008
The Crossroads Initiative is for a Church in the western world which it claims is at the crossroads. The Initiative feels the choice is clear: maintain the status quo and stand on the sidelines or mount an offensive of love, reaching out to the nominal, inactive, and unchurched with a confident, attractive proclamation of the whole gospel.
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29-Sep-2008
This week the Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) will hold its annual conference and awards ceremony in Brisbane. ACPA was established in 1956 to promote harmony and cooperation among members of the Catholic press and with other Catholic and ecumenical associations, and to promote the advancement of the religious press and the religious media.
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03-Oct-2008
This is an English production of sumptuous elegance and studied richness where not a candle, tapestry, or bouffant hairstyle is out of place. The settings and clothes are glorious to look at and the film is Oscar nomination material in the category of wardrobe design. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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29-Sep-2008
Parents and grandparents looking for school holiday entertainment for the youngsters that isn't mind numbingly witless for anyone over 13 should bend the knee in gratitude to the Disney organisation. Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a treat, a brilliant blend of live action and computer graphics that engrosses the young audience and happily entertains their elders. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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02-Oct-2008
This week's Encounter program looks at an ancient Gnostic sect which honours John the Baptist. They have fled persecution in the Middle East and found sanctuary in Australia. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran bring with them a pacifist belief structure and ancient rituals based on fresh flowing water.
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01-Oct-2008
Uwem Akpan's Say You’re One of Them fulfils the Horatian requirement that writing should give to the reader both instruction and pleasure. He offers an eloquent voice to African children to tell the stories of contemporary Africa. The stories are all told from the point of view of children, who are an integral part of a society struggling to make some meaning out of the urban poverty, civil conflict, child slavery and the religious intolerance that sometimes characterise life in Africa. - Fr Isidore Bonabom, Thinking Faith
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30-Sep-2008
Many in our society view money as a "necessary evil." Instead, entrepreneur and author, Frank Hanna explains, "money is a gift from God that is frequently abused because of our lack of understanding of its proper use." Based on ancient teachings and his own personal experiences, Hanna clearly lays out the meaning of money in his new book, What Your Money Means and How to Use It Well. - Catholic News Agency
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03-Oct-2008
In India many couples use ultrasound scans to detect female foetuses and then abort them. Although the practice is banned, a study in the leading medical journal The Lancet has estimated that half a million are terminated every year. In some rural areas deliberate neglect of girls, including allowing the umbilical cord to become infected, is used to dispose of unwanted daughters. - Anjalee Lewis, MercatorNet
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02-Oct-2008
The families running three months late with their mortgage payments weren't gormless, greedy, or hapless victims of unscrupulous, predatory lenders. Both husband and wife tend to be religious identifiers and married, have completed Year 12 and the husband often has postgraduate qualifications. The typical Australian family under threat of losing their house at the moment is the sort of better off, outer urban, middle class family with children in low to medium fee independent schools. - John Black, The Australian
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01-Oct-2008
Our current worshipping church will no doubt continue to decrease. We can either continue as we are with half empty churches or we can carefully rationalise our Masses and form new faith communities. It is always difficult to vary a long established practice and usually pain and struggle accompany change of any sort. - Sr Carmel Pilcher, Aurora
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30-Sep-2008
Crikey contributor Greg Barns has alleged that I have issued an authoritarian edict regarding the Victorian abortion bill. I have done no such thing. My still unmatched challenge to civil libertarians, including those who support abortion on demand, is to consider the questions of process and substance relating to the bill's application to a medical practitioner's right not to provide a pregnant woman with a referral to an abortionist. - Fr Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
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29-Sep-2008
The longer you are homeless, the harder it is to get back on your feet. The solution lies in public and community housing, which provides people with security of tenure and is not run for profit, allowing rent to be set at a level where people can begin to rebuild their lives and reconnect with the wider community. What a shame then, that "public housing" has become a dirty word. - Michael Perusco, The Age
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