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17-Nov-2008
In the latest in a series of major hospital resignations in Victoria, Melbourne St Vincent's Hospital chief executive Nicole Feely has resigned.
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News
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21-Nov-2008
Israeli tech company ioimage has won a contract to supply the Vatican with smart cameras to be placed along a 60 kilometre perimeter around the city state.
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21-Nov-2008
Long before he became pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger predicted a crisis in the global financial system, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti says.
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20-Nov-2008
Pope Benedict has made a plea for more action to address the poverty, conflicts and neglect that lead to the suffering or death of millions of children around the world.
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19-Nov-2008
The number of tourists to Australia in World Youth Day month, July 2008, jumped by 47,000 compared with the same month last year, figures show.
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18-Nov-2008
Formation for a new generation of "lay Catholics involved in politics" is urgent and vital, Pope Benedict has said.
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18-Nov-2008
More than 30 percent of senior high school students are working at least 55 hours a week when school hours, homework and part time work are totalled, a survey shows.
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21-Nov-2008
Instead of Schoolies Week, students from Melbourne's De La Salle College have switched to a new program known as "Coolies" in which they will travel to India to work as labourers with poor communities.
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20-Nov-2008
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has unveiled and blessed a specially commissioned sculpture of Blessed Mary MacKillop at the Australian Catholic University North Sydney campus.
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19-Nov-2008
The New South Wales Catholic Education Commission has confirmed that it has called on parents of children in Catholic schools to lobby for the scrapping of a new travel levy for students.
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News - National
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21-Nov-2008
An SBS television documentary featuring an Edmund Rice Centre exposé on the treatment of rejected asylum seekers has drawn a huge response, ERC director Phil Glendenning says.
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20-Nov-2008
Saying that Confirmation has practically become a "Sacrament of Farewell", Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan has called for a radical reconsideration of the age and practice relating to its conferral.
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20-Nov-2008
Harsh social security breaching laws impact on families with up to 50 percent of breached job seekers falling behind in their rent, Catholic Social Services chief Frank Quinlan has told a Senate enquiry.
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17-Nov-2008
A former Catholic College Bendigo staff member has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two young boys twenty years ago while a Darling Downs Catholic school teacher has been charged with seven counts of rape.
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17-Nov-2008
A magistrate has fined Melbourne priest Fr Wieslaw Pawlowski $400 for sunbaking naked in a suburban park.
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19-Nov-2008
Catholic Healthcare is to launch a Sydney telephone hotline to coordinate responses to people living in domestic squalor.
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17-Nov-2008
The Edmund Rice Centre has backed a petition calling for a Royal Commission into the events surrounding the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee.
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18-Nov-2008
"One punch deaths" among young people are the consequence of not being able to deal with anger, Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan has warned.
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17-Nov-2008
Saying that indigenous groups had not been adequately consulted, Broome Bishop Christopher Saunders has called for a "stay of execution" over the development of a gas processing hub on Western Australia's Dampier Peninsula.
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News - International
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17-Nov-2008
Pope Benedict yesterday appealed to road users around the world "to stay sober and alert" and take extra care to avoid traffic accidents.
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21-Nov-2008
Polish archaeologists have identified the remains of 16th century astronomer and priest, Nicolas Copernicus, who created shockwaves with his theory that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe.
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19-Nov-2008
Cardinal Stefan Wyszinski declined to be nominated as pope during a 1978 conclave, proposing instead his compatriot Karol Wojtyla, the late Polish primate's journal reveals.
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18-Nov-2008
Hedonistic, selfish and egocentric university educated Catholics are to blame for the crisis in the Church and the growth of secularism, a British bishop says.
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17-Nov-2008
In a bid to reflect Britain's multicultural modern society, Prince Charles is proposing to adopt the title of "Defender of Faith" when he becomes king instead of the traditional "Defender of the Faith".
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17-Nov-2008
Dutch archaeologists believe that they have located the tomb of Louis XIV musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan in a small Catholic church in the Netherlands.
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18-Nov-2008
Local government forces attacked and ransacked St Gerard chapel for the second time in Hanoi's Thai Ha Redemptorist parish over the weekend.
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21-Nov-2008
In her first public appearance since her ordeal, Orissa nun, Sr Meena, said she had been gang raped by forty men while police looked on.
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20-Nov-2008
Citing "fresh and concrete evidence", Indian detectives have arrested two priests and a nun over the 1992 murder in Kerala of 21 year old Sr Abhaya.
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19-Nov-2008
Describing recents events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a "massacre of the poor", Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi called for world support to end the violence and assist refugees.
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20-Nov-2008
San Salvador Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle has criticised the prosecution in Spain of Salvadoran officials over the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests.
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Regulars
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21-Nov-2008
Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in answer to numerous requests from Cardinals, bishops and lay faithful at a time when Christ was being pushed more and more out of the lives of nations, families and individuals. The Pope commented that when the reign of Christ was challenged by anti-clericalism, or secularism, it was opportune to institute a feast of the kingship of Christ. - Fr John Flader, The Record
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20-Nov-2008
The Abbotsford Convent wasn't a cruel place, Angela Dyer says. At least not for her. During her four years there, Dyer says, the nuns did not mistreat her, but she does remember the lack of love and her craving for affection. For some, the nuns were angels of mercy, while others remembered a nightmare childhood of beatings. - Katherine Kizilos, The Age
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19-Nov-2008
David and Samantha Meyn of East Maitland have gained wisdom beyond their years after losing their son Harrison, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 6, in July 2006. Oscar, now 7 and Campbell, 3, speak often of their older brother and love to draw attention to the photos displayed at home. - Tracey Edstein, Aurora
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18-Nov-2008
The film follows the travels of Phil Glendenning, who is the director of Sydney based social justice body the Edmund Rice Centre. For six years, the passionate but soberly spoken Glendenning has travelled to some of the world's most dangerous hotspots on the trail of would-be refugees who were rejected by Australia. - The Sydney Morning Herald
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17-Nov-2008
American bishops have been conducting a post mortem on the presidential election after calls by some of them for Catholics not to support "pro-abortion" Barack Obama were roundly ignored. Were the bishops right and is their authority now diminished? - Michael Sean Winters, The Tablet
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21-Nov-2008
After launching earlier this week, the website for the Queensland branch of the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH), takes its place as one of the most informative and fit for purpose sites in the Church in Australia.
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20-Nov-2008
This is the website of the Catholic League, the organisation which holds itself as the defender of Catholic civil rights in the United States. The League views that bias against the Catholic Church is deeply rooted in Amercian society and that "Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals."
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19-Nov-2008
The western Sydney based Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education is the organisation behind the documentary on Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, A Well Founded Fear, which airs on SBS TV tonight. The Centre is a ministry of the Christian Brothers and has a history of advocacy and campaigning on social justice issues.
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18-Nov-2008
St Peter Chanel school is based in the leafy Brisbane suburb of The Gap in Brisbane's north western suburbs. It is one of two Brisbane Catholic schools closed today as a result of Sunday's horror storm which struck the area.
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17-Nov-2008
Seventeen churches, including the Catholic Church, are members of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA). The organisation has just released a statement on the plight of Christians in Iraq which urges the Australian Government to take in more Christian refugees from that country and to increase aid to Iraq's displaced population in Jordan and Syria.
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21-Nov-2008
This Bond movie avoids the humour and whimsy of past 007 exploits, and substitutes fast action in their place. If anything moves, it is bound to soon explode, collapse or crash, and James Bond will be there in the middle of it. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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17-Nov-2008
There is enormous face validity to this movie. It has been created to show male versions of male distress, and where fatherhood ultimately comes into the sharpest focus, the film represents a most impressive achievement for all concerned. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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19-Nov-2008
Fr Stan Fortuna is a Catholic priest and a founding member of the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, an order established in the heart of the South Bronx in 1987. But he is also a musician known worldwide as "the rapping priest". Even after 20 years it's not a title he's totally comfortable with.
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20-Nov-2008
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State and effectively the second most important official in the Catholic Church, takes a close look at economic globalisation and the social nature of markets in this book which is notable for its ecumenical character. - Paola Fantini, Acton Institute
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18-Nov-2008
Oddie elucidates Chesterton's journey from a comfortably bohemian childhood in liberal Kensington without relying on previous biographies, apart from Chesterton's autobiography and Maisie Ward's biography of 1944, which made use of information no longer to be had. Instead he has burrowed among the Chesterton papers in the British Library. - Christopher Howse, The Tablet
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21-Nov-2008
Change brings opportunity. The rise of consumer capitalism is no longer the unstoppable force which it appeared to be only a few months ago. The corruption of American influence, which has for so long troubled western democrats who still dare to believe in the potential of the land of the free as an agent of justice and reconciliation in the world, may at last have been halted. If we are to act with vision and moral courage, we might first examine what recent events both demand of us and offer to us. - Jill Segger, The Catholic Herald
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20-Nov-2008
The GAFCON leaders claimed that what they regarded as their orthodox views have not been properly respected in the Anglican Communion. They therefore have had to act out in organisational dissent. To claim that at the global level and not to respect and engage with dissenters in your own immediate family is manifestly dishonest. - Reverend Bruce Kaye, Online Opinion
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19-Nov-2008
2008 has been a year of potentially historic breakthroughs between Anglican Christians and the Chair of Peter. Many Catholics have noted with great interest the growing number of Anglicans who have approached the possibility of coming into full communion with the Catholic Church. - Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online
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18-Nov-2008
Exponents of co-education who tout it as a superior model to single sex education frequently base their reasoning on social imperatives rather than academic outcomes. They argue, perhaps flippantly, that our world is a co-ed environment for both men and women alike, and that the only societal segregation of sexes occurs in rest rooms, prisons and schools. - Amanda Bell, abc.net.au
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17-Nov-2008
The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions, but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy. - Karen Armstrong, guardian.co.uk
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