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24-Oct-2008
"The radical humility of Christ" contrasted with the "pretension of Adam" and the "pride of the builders of the Tower of Babel" that ended in "self-destruction", Pope Benedict said on Wednesday.
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22-Oct-2008
Congregation for the Clergy psychiatrist Dr Manfred Lutz has described celibacy as "a permanent protest against collective superficiality" and a "provocation" to a world that does not believe in life after death.
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20-Oct-2008
The Holy See has approved three alternatives to "Ita missa est", the priest's final words at Mass, Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments head, Cardinal Francis Arinze, has announced.
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20-Oct-2008
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi has issued a call to both Catholics and Jews to stop pressuring Pope Benedict over the sainthood prospects of the late Pope Pius XII.
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22-Oct-2008
Only 31 World Youth Day pilgrims have overstayed their visas, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has reported, while another 186 people have applied for protection visas.
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24-Oct-2008
Cardinal John Henry Newman should be made a Doctor of the Church, Oxford University expert Fr Ian Ker, has said describing reading the English theologian's writings as like "reading the Church Fathers".
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23-Oct-2008
German publisher Herder is preparing the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, for publication in 16 volumes.
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23-Oct-2008
The Bible Synod has narrowed its list of proposals to 53 from an initial list of 254, including a suggestion that every member of the faithful be encouraged to have a bible.
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22-Oct-2008
Vinnies head Dr John Falzon says the Society is staying optimistic despite being swamped with calls for assistance in the wake of the economic crisis.
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21-Oct-2008
Many lectors lack confidence or read too fast, Wollongong Bishop Peter Ingham told the Bible Synod, and should learn to emulate radio announcers and TV presenters.
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20-Oct-2008
Chairing an English language working group at the Bible Synod, Canberra Archbishop Mark Coleridge says there is a need "to stress the essential evangelising mission of the laity by virtue of their Baptism."
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22-Oct-2008
Xavier College principal Chris McCabe has branded a break-up rampage by Year 12 students as disgusting and disgraceful and says that culprits who are identified will be expelled.
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21-Oct-2008
Melbourne's elite Xavier College has cancelled classes for three days for all 250 Year 12 students after a student was injured in what is described as an unruly game of "jockball".
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News - National
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24-Oct-2008
Former Loreto international leader, Sr Mary Wright IBVM, heads to Rome this week to take up a post as a canon lawyer with the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
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24-Oct-2008
Canadian born Fr Frank Leo has arrived in Canberra to take up duties as secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature.
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23-Oct-2008
An antique book featuring a revealing photograph of early Victorian settler William Buckley has lost ninety percent of its value because previous owners, the Mercy Sisters, scissored out the offending items.
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22-Oct-2008
Parramatta Bishop Kevin Manning has added his voice to calls not to cut the ABC's The Religion Report as host Stephen Crittenden was suspended following his on-air protest against the program's axing.
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21-Oct-2008
As the national broadcaster, the ABC "should be leading the way in specialist reporting", ACBC President Archbishop Philip Wilson said, adding that other outlets provide enough "celebrity gossip" and "political PR manoeuvrings".
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23-Oct-2008
A student injured during an end of year "rampage" by Xavier College Year 12 students is in hospital with doctors still unable to operate with only eight days to go before VCE exams begin.
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20-Oct-2008
Adelaide Archdiocese is reported to be eyeing a new real estate development project to match its groundbreaking VS1 tower.
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News - International
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23-Oct-2008
Catholics in Virginia, USA now have access to a "pro-life pharmacy" that claims to offer superior pharmaceutical care "in a family oriented, pro-life environment, free of contraceptive products and anti-life messages."
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21-Oct-2008
An international partnership formed by Church Resources, Jesuit Communications Australia and New Jersey based Paulist Press yesterday launched CathNews USA modelled on its Australian counterpart.
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21-Oct-2008
Soeur Emmanuelle, the Belgian born sister who devoted her life to "ragpickers" and slum dwellers in North Africa has died in France aged 99.
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20-Oct-2008
Poland's Catholic Church has issued a 22 point guide explaining how Catholics who want to leave the Church may do so.
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24-Oct-2008
Caritas UK has launched a protest campaign against a local Philippines mining company partner of Australia's giant BHP Billiton claiming the protest has been "imposed" on poor villagers.
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23-Oct-2008
Manila Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales has written to parish priests asking them to quickly turn in coins they have collected in a church fundraising campaign after a Philippines Central Bank official warned of a shortage of quarters.
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17-Oct-2008
East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta called for a "concordat" or legal agreement to be signed with the Holy See while the Catholic country's final draft penal code bans abortions except in extreme circumstances.
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24-Oct-2008
Pope Benedict yesterday suspended Kochi, Kerala Bishop John Thattunkal pending an investigation of charges that he adopted a young woman for "spiritual refreshment".
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21-Oct-2008
A fire that damaged a Bangalore church was part of a radical Hindu attack, Archbishop Bernard Moras said, refuting police claims that it was an accident.
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22-Oct-2008
Rather than demolish St Dominic's Cathedral in Fuzhou, China, engineers have moved it 75 metres from its original position and turned its accommodation for priests 90 degrees.
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Regulars
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24-Oct-2008
Some Catholics see him almost as a traitor because he turned the Church outward to embrace the world. Other Catholics see him as the Pope who liberated the Church so that she could follow the beliefs of secular society, in the interests of solidarity with all men. Yet his whole impulse was to bring people to God, through the institution that Christ founded, the Catholic Church. - Josephine Robinson, The Catholic Herald
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23-Oct-2008
The communists are afraid of the Catholics because they are the strongest organised religion in the entire country. But among the intellectuals, university professors, students and journalists the reality is becoming known, that communism oppresses, and they see the Church as a place of freedom. - Chiesa
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22-Oct-2008
A few months ago I received a surprising and moving email from Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a military lawyer who has been prosecuting detainees at Guantanamo for over a year. He had, he said, "grave misgivings" about what was happening at Guantanamo, the trials, and US policy. What advice did I have to offer? I dashed off a reply to this effect: "Quit." - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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21-Oct-2008
Hugh Lunn is a man of many words. He is a successful author and award winning journalist but his latest book was probably the hardest thing he has ever written. It is about his best friend, Australian tennis great Ken Fletcher. The two grew up together on Brisbane's southside - Lunn at 496 Ipswich Road and Fletcher at 524 Ipswich Road.
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20-Oct-2008
Twelve years ago, three Aussie nuns decided they were needed in the crowded slums of Lima. At an age when most Australian women are counting their super and looking forward to retirement, Sisters of Mercy Tricia McDermott, Joan Doyle and Jacqueline Ford are working on. Sister McDermott turns 64 this week, Sister Doyle is 57 and Sister Ford will be 70 next month. - Brendan Nicholson, The Age
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24-Oct-2008
The Record is the Catholic newspaper of Western Australia. In more recent months it has updated its website to include a good selection of its news items and features on a weekly basis.
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23-Oct-2008
Assumption College is a Catholic co-education secondary college based in Warwick on Queensland's Darling Downs. It is a Toowoomba diocesan school with a rich heritage, its forerunner institutions had involvement by both the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers.
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22-Oct-2008
The Society of Catholic Teachers Australia (SCTA) is primarily a group of lay Catholic teachers from across Australia seeking to follow the teachings of the Church through the vocation of teaching.
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21-Oct-2008
Last week was the week of global action against the debt crisis facing third world countries. Jubilee Australia is part of a worldwide movement to abolish the enslaving capacities of debt. It includes a coalition of churches, aid agencies and community groups who are in campaign mode in favour of debt cancellation.
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20-Oct-2008
Christian Blind Mission Australia is part of an international Christian organisation celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008 and whose primary purpose is to improve the quality of life of persons with disability and to reduce the risk of disability, particularly for people living in the poorest areas of the world.
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22-Oct-2008
The Women shows the undermining effects of gossip mongering, but it is also a celebration of female camaraderie and ultimately the positive power of love. True to the first film and the play, there are no males anywhere to be seen. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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20-Oct-2008
He's best known for roles in popular TV series The Circuit, Wildside, City Homicide, and MDA, but behind the scenes Aaron Pedersen has had a much more important role to play. For many of his 35 years, the award winning actor has been the primary carer of his 34 year old brother, Vincent, who has mild cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability.
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21-Oct-2008
After last week's stinging commentary from The Religion Report presenter, Stephen Crittenden on the "decommissioning" of the program from the Radio National line-up in 2009, many listeners will be tuning in to tomorrow's program to support the beleagured program.
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24-Oct-2008
The book recognises the central interpretative challenge for anyone writing about Henry is to explain how he mutated from a learned, attractive, doted upon young king into someone regarded by many of his subjects, and many modern historians, as little more than a tyrant, the dispenser of judicial murders, the bloated, disease-riddled figure in that famous Holbein portrait. - Johnathan Wright, The Tablet
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24-Oct-2008
Social and cultural norms, as well as legal regulations, influence human behaviour including sexual behaviour. So not surprisingly, as Western countries have become increasingly pro-homosexual, they have experienced an upward trend in the number of individuals engaging in homosexual behaviour. That trend will continue if we move beyond mere tolerance of homosexual behaviour to formally honouring it by legalising same-sex marriage.
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23-Oct-2008
Reliance on the clinical tests for brain stem function and lack of spontaneous breathing alone have never been acceptable practice in Australia. If the brain stem tests alone are used there is nothing to show the family that their relative, whose heart beats normally and who may still look well, is dead. The concerns raised about Australian practice are the reason I have, for ethical reasons, refused a renal transplant for the past 20 years. - Associate Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, The Age
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22-Oct-2008
The financial crises have provided an opening for some Christian commentators to take cheap shots at the institutions of capitalism and economists. I'm not saying there are no problems with either, but to deal with the problems we need serious theoretical and empirical analysis in conjunction with questions and the larger framework that Christian theology can provide. - Paul Oslington, abc.net.au
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21-Oct-2008
The successful tend to believe in the present order of things and become insensitive to weakness and failure; the powerful often hurt people without intending to do so. They often find it difficult to understand why the weak just cannot "get their act together" after all, "life wasn’t meant to be easy." - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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20-Oct-2008
Often what stops us from taking risks and moving out of our comfort zones is fear, and it is useful to ask ourselves where the fear comes from and what do we think we will lose? How many of us these days take the risk to share ourselves, to make ourselves vulnerable in areas to which we are not accustomed? - Pauline Connelly, The Southern Cross
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23-Oct-2008
Throughout the Pacific region the impacts of global warming are already being felt, and threaten to disenfranchise people from their land, culture, history and future. ACU and the Edmund Rice Centre will hold a forum, Pacific Calling for Climate Justice this weekend in Sydney.
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