News
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06-Nov-2008
Pope Pius XII, who declared the dogma of the Assumption, witnessed Fatima like "miracles of the sun" four times, the pontiff's handwritten notes reveal.
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05-Nov-2008
There is no contradiction beteen believing in God and empirical science, Pope Benedict told a Rome gathering of eminent scientists including cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
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04-Nov-2008
For the first time since Pope John XXIII, Vatican workers from office staff to cardinals have been issued swipe cards for clocking on and off at work.
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03-Nov-2008
All Saints Day "rekindles the desire to be united forever with the family of saints," Pope Benedict said, citing the line "Lord how I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in" from the New Orleans spiritual classic.
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05-Nov-2008
Indigenous leaders from Australia and the Pacific have called on Australia to show leadership on climate change and Australian religious leaders are also mobilising on the issue.
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04-Nov-2008
Marist College Rosalie in Brisbane's inner west which is to close at the end of this year after a controversial decision by Archbishop John Bathersby will be transformed into a teachers' training centre.
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News - National
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07-Nov-2008
Former priest, Michael Francis Reis, who taught at several Catholic girls schools in Queensland and Victoria, has been jailed for six months for indecently touching young girls.
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04-Nov-2008
Canberra auxiliary Bishop Pat Power has issued a statement clarifying earlier remarks on the events at Brisbane's St Mary's parish.
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03-Nov-2008
The newly formed Conference of Josephite Leaders has held its first meeting along the way to a "healing of the separation of their history."
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03-Nov-2008
ACBC immigration spokesman Bishop Joseph Grech has called for a review of immigration procedures following a government decision to deny a German doctor permanent residency because his son has Down's Syndrome.
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03-Nov-2008
Australia's bishops have launched a "comprehensive strategy" to support women who find themselves facing an unexpected pregnancy.
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03-Nov-2008
Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby has written to the administrator of St Mary's in South Brisbane threatening to start "a formal process" to address the situation if changes are not made by December 1.
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05-Nov-2008
A Geelong County Court judge has sentenced Victorian country priest, Edmund John Haines, to four years and three months for a series of child sex crimes.
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07-Nov-2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has opened the new Vinnies sponsored Ozanam Learning Centre in Woolloomoloo, Sydney, which aims to empower and equip homeless people in a transition back to "sustainable independent living".
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06-Nov-2008
Campbelltown Catholic Club in south western Sydney is on a NSW government list of 50 "problem venues" and will be subject to 2am lockouts and plastic glasses after midnight.
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06-Nov-2008
Catholic boarding schools catering for indigenous students in Queensland and the Northern Territory may lose up to 30 percent of their grants if legislation currently before Federal Parliament is passed.
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04-Nov-2008
The priest at Our Lady of Fatima, Acacia Ridge on Brisbane's southside, Fr Brendan Dooley said many people were angry and upset after the death of Richard Saunders uncle of rugby league superstar Johnathan Thurston but it was a time for "calm and peace and reconciliation".
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News - International
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07-Nov-2008
The election of a black Pope is "certainly possible", African-American Archbishop Wilton Gregory said, after describing US President elect Barack Obama's victory as a "great step forward for humanity".
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03-Nov-2008
Canberra Archbishop Mark Coleridge has hosted a send off for new Australian ambassador to the Holy See, former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer.
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06-Nov-2008
Incoming US President Barack Obama has won back a significant proportion of the Catholic vote previously lost to George Bush, electoral analysts say.
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07-Nov-2008
Russian police have detained a suspect in the killings of two Jesuit priests brutally murdered in Moscow last week.
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06-Nov-2008
The Vatican returned a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece yesterday in a move that may increase pressure on the British Museum to return the so called Elgin Marbles.
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05-Nov-2008
Brisbane priest Fr Tim Harris, who has just visited two former parishioners, convicted drug mules, Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj, says that the death penalty is not the answer for drug traffickers or for the Bali bombers.
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04-Nov-2008
Pope Benedict is ready to make a stop over visit to Myanmar after Yangon Archbishop Charles Maung Bo issued an invitiation to the Pope from the floor of the Bible Synod.
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04-Nov-2008
Caritas Internationalis has launched an appeal for peace and for aid to be delivered to the crisis torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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05-Nov-2008
Devotion to "Saint Death" is not compatible with the Catholic faith, Mexico's bishops have said, adding that nor is St Jude Thaddeus the patron saint of criminals or drug lords.
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07-Nov-2008
The Christian Brothers have announced the appointment of their former Western Australian leader, Br Kevin Ryan, as the new director of a national disability services network in Papua New Guinea.
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05-Nov-2008
Catholic women's organisations in the Asia-Pacific will focus their energies on empowerment for women, a regional conference in Seoul has decided.
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Religion
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07-Nov-2008
Pope Benedict stressed the importance of religious freedom to Muslim scholars yesterday while a joint statement from this week's meeting of Catholic and Islamic scholars included a call for an ethical world financial system.
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04-Nov-2008
Muslim scholars are in Rome for a three day meeting with Vatican officials and with Pope Benedict to discuss plans to defuse tensions between Christianity and Islam.
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Regulars
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07-Nov-2008
The last few decades have seen significant changes in the roles women are occupying in Australian society, and the Church has also taken steps to involve women in new ways. For some women, change has not occurred fast enough. When bishops and priests take centre stage at major Catholic celebrations, some think that the Church still looks like a "boys' club". - Michael McVeigh, Australian Catholics
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06-Nov-2008
More than most deaths a suicide leave deep wounds in the family. Some members torture themselves, others are angry at the "selfishness" of the suicide. Some blame each other, magnifying incidents, colouring the past, uncovering "signs" of the dead person's intent. Then there are those, family or friends, who are distraught, believing that the husband, wife, friend or whoever, is lost forevermore. They see it as an ultimate act of despair, an unforgivable sin. - Sr Redempta Twomey, St Columban's Mission Society
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05-Nov-2008
Churches have created profiles on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace, as well as on Christian networking sites. Many churches now also have their own Internet pages, with video clips, podcasts and blogs. It's an indication of how important the Internet is today when it comes to evangelisation. - Fr John Flynn, Zenit
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04-Nov-2008
Singing your heart out on Australian Idol for millions of home viewers and smiling while judges "Dicko", Marcia, Mark or Kyle tear little strips off your performance is the music business version of a baptism of fire. Such was the rite of passage for Irish born singer Damien Leith, who shot to prominence as the winner of Australian Idol 2006. - Dan McAloon, Catholic Outlook
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03-Nov-2008
Of the 30 groups who are currently members of West London Citizens, 27 are based in faith communities. Why is it that people of faith are more likely to feel strongly about and act on the issues that WLC campaigns for? - Frances Murphy, Thinking Faith
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07-Nov-2008
Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) is a global Catholic media network involving both television and radio stations. It broadcasts mainly in English and Spanish and was founded by the profilic Sr Angelica in the US in 1981.
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06-Nov-2008
Palms Australia is a volunteer organisation which works with various religious orders and other Catholic groups to send volunteers to the developing world. It prides itself on sending volunteers who are not just providers of aid but who are involved in a genuine cross-cultural exhange with the local community - learning as much as they are giving.
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05-Nov-2008
Earlier this week a new body emerged from among Australian religious organisations to highlight and suggest solutions for tackling climate change. Australian Religious Response to Climate Change draws together people of different faith traditions and approaches climate change as a moral issue - one compelling action by people of faith to safeguard creation.
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04-Nov-2008
National Catholic Register is a weekly American Catholic newspaper founded in 1927 in Denver and professing loyalty to the teaching of the Church. It website is a portal for Catholic news providing education and information on Catholics, the Church and faith.
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03-Nov-2008
New Advent is the "bible" of Catholic information. Principally seen as a Catholic encyclopedia, its online version is also a multi faceted Catholic resource with material on the Church Fathers, a section on the Bible and other items of interest.
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07-Nov-2008
This is the first feature film for its director Rob Schneider and it is a comedy that entertains. In essence, Big Stan is a prison movie parody that is a better comedy than most, and it manages to maintain a serious tone well in its second half. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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05-Nov-2008
There ought be a special G rating for films like this, not G for General Exhibition but G for Gore, for Gruesome, for Grisly and for Guts, simulations of which are spread around rather liberally. Fearsome iron mantraps, axes, a pick and a crossbow are among the movie's favoured implements of death and dismemberment. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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03-Nov-2008
The first Centre Stage movie in 2000 was, if memory serves, an inconsequential but amiable dance/romance, which piled movie cliché upon movie cliché in its story of a girl burning to be a ballerina. This follow up (hardly a sequel, because it's new characters) does not tamper with the formula. Yes, it's about another girl burning to be a ballerina. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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06-Nov-2008
Readers moved by religion, poetry and their effects on people's lives may be fascinated by this almost day to day account of English priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It's by an American poet who is also a biographer of American poets. - Carl Hartman, the33tv.com
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07-Nov-2008
Despite Obama's victory, the nation remains divided on moral and religious issues. Debates on abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia polarised the electorate and drew the Catholic bishops into the political fray. But the fierce denunciations of Obama and the Democrats by some bishops and the balanced tones of most others also exposed divisions within the Church hierarchy in the US. - David Gibson, The Tablet
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06-Nov-2008
On a number of occasions Pope John Paul II pointed to what he called "a culture of death" in our Western society. The outlook of Jesus, and therefore of the Christian, is the opposite to this. As Christians we should be concerned to act for the fulfilment, not the diminishment of life. There are many areas in modern Australia where we should be following Christ as agents of life, not destroyers. - Bishop Greg O'Kelly, The Southern Cross
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05-Nov-2008
Statistics show that New Zealanders are very tribal in their voting patterns, the majority do not change their vote from one election to the next. To engage in the process set out by the Bishops means that every Catholic should be potentially a "swinging voter", willing to change the habit of a lifetime to promote Catholic values. - Fr Brian O'Connell, Marist Messenger
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04-Nov-2008
It was Pope Pius VII's concordat with Napoleon in 1801 that had the effect of vesting in the pope alone the power to appoint bishops anywhere in the Roman Catholic Church. The fact that this method of appointing and promoting bishops has absolutely nothing to do with the will of Christ or with the authentic tradition of the Church seems to escape many Catholics and not a few bishops who themselves have benefitted from the break with the ancient practices. - Fr Richard McBrien, National Catholic Reporter
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03-Nov-2008
More often than not, this is the way that I find God (or God finds me). Not among the noise or the clatter of life, but in paying attention to the world that he has made. The creation always reveals something of God, just as the character of an artist is shown through their paintings. - David Enticott, The Age
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04-Nov-2008
Melbourne based Catholics are invited to attend the ABC recording of the Annual Carols & Readings Service at St Patrick's Cathedral. This service is usually held the Sunday before Christmas Day and is the first time the ABC has ever recorded a Christmas service in a Catholic Church.
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