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17-Oct-2008
The Church is not a human association born from common interests, but an assembly gathered together by God, Pope Benedict told Rome pilgrims on Wednesday.
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16-Oct-2008
The late Pope John Paul II was wounded by a crazed knife wielding priest in 1982, the year after he was shot, but the injury was kept secret his former secretary, now Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, has revealed in a new documentary.
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14-Oct-2008
Students can embark on a virtual tour of some of Australia's greatest reefs with Catholic Earthcare's latest interactive resource, director Jacqui Remond says.
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14-Oct-2008
Missionary of the Sacred Heart Fr Claude Mostowik has blessed a consignment of export live cattle being loaded onto a ship in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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17-Oct-2008
New research into Biblical women shows most receive positive or matter-of-fact coverage with words such as "blessed", "righteous"and "beautiful" referring to 60 of the Bible's 175 female characters.
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17-Oct-2008
Bible Synod relator general Cardinal Marc Oullet yesterday presented a summary of the points made by the 260 bishops, delegates and auditors who have so far spoken at the event.
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16-Oct-2008
The Christian Brothers have announced that its New South Wales based Edmund Rice Community Services will come under the banner of MacKillop Family Services from July next year.
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16-Oct-2008
Korean Professor Thomas Han has told the Bible Synod that Church leaders need to examine their lifestyles and possessions while Hong Kong lay leader Agnes Kam proposed a multi-lingual blog for the Pope.
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15-Oct-2008
In a rare step, Pope Benedict took the floor at the Bible Synod yesterday to recommend that the bishops adopt a proposition on how exegetes and theologians can better inform each others work.
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15-Oct-2008
Noting that there are 4,500 languages in which Scripture is not yet available, Catholic Biblical Federation President Bishop Vincenzo Paglia announced an agreement with the United Bible Societies to cooperate in translating the Bible.
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14-Oct-2008
Sydney Cardinal Pell has called for the development of an Institute for Bible Translation while an Ethiopian bishop has touted a solar powered "bible proclaimer" device at the Synod of Bishops on the Bible.
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13-Oct-2008
Bishops have domesticated and tamed the Gospel, Broken Bay Bishop David Walker told the Bible Synod, so that it does not draw "a radical response" from the faithful".
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13-Oct-2008
On a trip to Bali to visit condemned drug mule Scott Rush, Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan has called on Prime Minister Kevi Rudd to say that Australia does not support the death penalty in any circumstances.
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16-Oct-2008
Catholic schools in Sydney area dioceses will cut fees to assist thousands of families hard hit by the economic crisis, Sydney Catholic Education Office Br Kelvin Canavan has announced.
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News - National
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16-Oct-2008
The Religion Report host Stephen Crittenden pre-empted an announcement by ABC Radio National that the program is to be axed as part of major changes to the national broadcaster's schedule for 2009.
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14-Oct-2008
The ACBC Office for the Participation of Women is inviting women from around Australia to phone in today as part of its new Teleforum initiative.
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13-Oct-2008
Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey is suing The West Australian for defamation after the paper published an article calling him a "hypocrite" over his stance on women.
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13-Oct-2008
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has described the passing of the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill on Friday as a "betrayal of our shared humanity, a betrayal of women, and a betrayal of the innocent unborn child."
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17-Oct-2008
Seventy years after the death of Deniliquin priest, Fr Michael Treacy, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge has made orders regarding the final distribution of his estate.
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15-Oct-2008
Thousands of dollars worth of copper piping has been stolen from under a Catholic presbytery in Maitland, New South Wales.
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14-Oct-2008
Australian Catholic University theology student Kathleen Worrall has been charged with the knife murder of her sister Susan.
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13-Oct-2008
Campbelltown Catholic Club in Sydney's south west has backed a move to refuse to stock a premixed Smirnoff alcopop drink with seven per cent alcohol.
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13-Oct-2008
St Mary's South Brisbane churchgoer, Richard Stokes, has asked police to press charges against parish priest Fr Peter Kennedy after a mobile phone camera was knocked from his hand at a baptism yesterday.
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News - International
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13-Oct-2008
Scottish MP Christine Graham is moving a motion in the Scottish Parliament this week calling for repatriation of the body of Mary Queen of Scots, executed for treason on the orders of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England
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15-Oct-2008
Local authorities in Vietnam's Hue archdiocese have ordered Catholics in An Bang parish to remove a cross and altar from their church as the government plans to bulldoze the church to reclaim the land.
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16-Oct-2008
Kerala Bishop John Thattumkal of Kochi is in trouble with his priests after he adopted a 26 year old woman for "spiritual reformation".
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10-Oct-2008
Pope Benedict yesterday canonised India's first woman saint, Sr Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, who died aged 35 in 1946.
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15-Oct-2008
The Congregation for Divine Worship has written to the South African Bishops Conference calling for an end to the practice of anointing people with the "oil of gladness".
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16-Oct-2008
The head of China's Communist Party central leadership school has said the country will have a form of democracy by 2020 with an increased role for civil society including religious groups and other NGOs.
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Religion
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15-Oct-2008
Vatican bank president, Angelo Caloia, has offered assurances that deposits are safe.
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15-Oct-2008
Iraq's government says it will send officials to the country's north to tackle violence against Christians that has caused thousands to flee their homes.
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Regulars
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17-Oct-2008
For many religious people there is a legitimate tension between money and the message of the Gospel. Although Jesus taught the parable of the talents, the sadness of Jesus at the rich young man's unwillingness to give his wealth away and the Church's long monastic tradition, colours the Church's relationship to money. Such a tension is dealt with by acknowledging the necessary role of money both for personal well-being and institutional longevity, and then by using and investing money as ethically as possible. - Mark Speeks, The Tablet
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16-Oct-2008
Padre Ian Johnson had a way of approaching the new guys. He sidled up beside them, offering his right hand for shaking, maybe with his left hand on the Digger's shoulder. "All the best mate," he'd say. "G'day Padre," said the long-timers, all of whom, at one time or another in the past six months, have sought solace in the wisdom of the first Catholic padre embedded in Afghanistan.
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15-Oct-2008
Lewis used letter writing to explore deeper and more serious connections between people than they would usually establish across the table. The letters reveal a bruised and open heart that was thoroughly and painfully explored by the God Lewis came, reluctantly, to believe in. - Greg Clarke, Online Opinion
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14-Oct-2008
From a distance, the Synod of Bishops on the Bible, currently meeting in the Vatican, may seem an oddly esoteric distraction from the unfolding global drama. After all, the world's economy is in meltdown, and America is facing a crucial election in just a few weeks. Against that backdrop, bringing together 400 bishops, clergy, lay leaders, Bible experts and delegates from other Christian churches to discuss how fast lectors read scripture passages during Mass, or the precise sense in which the Bible is "inerrant," can seem like fiddling while everyplace other than Rome burns. - John L. Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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13-Oct-2008
Caring for a family member with an anxiety disorder can be extremely demanding and stressful for the family or carer, frequently affecting the health and well being of the carer. It is crucial for carers to have time out and to engage in social and recreational activity that is separate from their caring roles. Carers need to care for themselves as the burden of care can threaten their health and jeopardise their ability to continue in their caring role. - Julien Leith, abc.net.au
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17-Oct-2008
Albert Street Productions is a Melbourne based independent production company formed in 1985. It is owned by numerous religious congregations and its approach to film and video production is about "communicating values".
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16-Oct-2008
This website focuses on Marriage and Relationship Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. It is an image rich site hosting material from the Archdiocese's Council for Marriage and the Family and the Centacare Melbourne agency.
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15-Oct-2008
CatholicMom.com is a US based website labelling itself as a proud celebration of Catholic motherhood. It promotes itself as a forum for sharing and learning about parenting and faith issues.
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14-Oct-2008
This Sunday October 19 is World Mission Day. This year the theme is One World, One Family, One Mission of Love. The day will also mark the beatification of the parents of St Therese of Lisieux, Zélie and Louis Martin. St
Therese is the patron saint of the worldwide mission of the Church.
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13-Oct-2008
One of the aims of the National Catholic Education Commission is to promote and advance the interests of Catholic education in Australia. The NCEC has ably fulfilled this objective in recent decades and its website is an example of how this has often been achieved behind the scenes and through negotiaion and lobbying rather than through external promotion.
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17-Oct-2008
What makes Brideshead Revisited of great interest to audiences who think about society, class differences, aristocratic snobbery and presumptions, is the religious dimension from Waugh, the convert to Catholicism. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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14-Oct-2008
A fascinating film about a fascinating celebrity. While it is a documentary, it has some reconstructed sequences and plays as interestingly as a fiction feature. Philippe Petit was a 23 year old Frenchman who walked on wires between the two towers of the World Trade Center on August 7 1974. At the same time, Richard Nixon was making speeches about Watergate and the day after the walk, resigned the presidency losing some of the headlines to Mr Petit. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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15-Oct-2008
Three times a day the French hilltop village of Taize in Burgundy comes to a standstill. The church bells call everyone to stop what they are doing and come to prayer. Thousands of young people from around the world, pilgrims to Taize, do just that because prayer and worship at the Taize community is a unique experience.
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13-Oct-2008
An immensely important theme runs through this compelling book. Dowden argues that decades of colonial rule inflicted a "wound that parted Africa from its soul" by destroying or denigrating every indigenous culture and institution. But this scar is now healing and the continent's people are, Dowden believes, recovering from the experience of foreign domination by reconciling their way of life with modernity and progress. - David Blair, The Tablet
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17-Oct-2008
Both climate change and the turbulence on the stock exchange demonstrate that we are all in this together. These things impact on us all, whether we had any part in their causes or not, whether we take up our responsibility to address these issues, or not.
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16-Oct-2008
Mission is like a kaleidoscope of activities and outlooks. God does take us on quantum leaps of understanding that destroy our mindsets. We are in a quantum leap now at this historical moment in the life of the Church. The Church is always trying to catch up with the Holy Spirit who hurries along on mission. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that excitement? - Fr Gary Walker, St Columban's Mission Society
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15-Oct-2008
Religious responses to environmental catastrophe should not be confined to encouraging individuals among us to minimise their carbon footprints, however important this might be. We have to engage with consumerism seriously and recognise the psychological and spiritual pathos sometimes unspoken in our shopping centres, offering the religious community as an alternative and a source of healing. - Johnathan Gorsky, Thinking Faith
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14-Oct-2008
I believe that Jesus was a more profoundly weak man than Socrates, more liable to physical pain and weariness, more sensitive to human rejection and contempt, more affected by love and hate. Sensitive people suffer more than others because their sensitivity leaves them vulnerable and unable to seal themselves off against pain - their own, that of their loved ones, and that of the world. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, www.ronrolheiser.com
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13-Oct-2008
Eros is a divine gift and will always be present in a loving relationship in some degree. Initially it is a natural desire for one’s own pleasure. This is a gift from God but it has to be developed and this is achieved when our desire to love and be loved is regulated by right reason. The perfect integration of "eros" and "agape", seeking one’s own pleasure and that of the beloved, will probably only be completely achieved in heaven. - Fr John Kelly, Marist Messenger
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16-Oct-2008
St John of God Sister Patricia Rhatigan will give the Walter Silvester Memorial Lecture on her reflections on pastoral work in the Kimberley. Her oration is titled "Faith and hope in the Kimberley:personal reflections from pastoral experiences."
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