News
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29-Jan-2009
Pope Benedict on Wednesday reaffirmed his "full and unquestionable solidarity" with Jews while SSPX Archbishop Bernard Fellay has silenced Holocaust minimising Bishop Richard Williamson over his remarks.
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28-Jan-2009
The Vatican's "damage control machine" is reported to have "gone into high gear" over the reaction to the lifting of the excommunication of four SSPX bishops, including the controversial Bishop Richard Williamson.
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27-Jan-2009
Pope Benedict chose World Communications Day to launch the Vatican's YouTube channel, and praised social networking sites for fostering friendships and understanding, but warning they also can isolate people.
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27-Jan-2009
World Youth Day 2008 has led to unprecedented growth in the Australian Young Christian Workers movement, according to national secretary Marie Rehab.
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30-Jan-2009
Catholic development network, CIDSE, has slammed current methods of extracting natural resources in Latin America as leading to loss of livelihood, violent conflict, persistent human rights violations and environmental degradation.
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29-Jan-2009
As the 2009 World Social Forum opened in Belem, Brazil, co-founder and Catholic activist, Chico Whitaker, told a forum on liberation and theology that the global economic crisis was also an opportunity "to build another world".
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27-Jan-2009
Welfare groups were already "overstretched" even before the current economic downturn, Catholic Social Services executive director, Frank Quinlan has told the Federal Government.
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30-Jan-2009
Preeminent Sydney educator, author and Catholic media contributor, Barry Dwyer has died.
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30-Jan-2009
Four new Catholic primary schools are opening in Melbourne as tens of thousands of students return from holidays for the start of the 2009 school year.
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28-Jan-2009
Australia now has a shortfall of 1,300 doctors and 13,000 nurses, Catholic Health Australia CEO Martin Laverty said warning of a growing health workforce crisis.
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News - National
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30-Jan-2009
Twenty Australians attended the World Meeting of Families dubbed "World Youth Day for families", in Mexico City in a pilgrimage led by Sydney couple Ron and Mavis Pirola and Darwin Bishop Eugene Hurley.
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27-Jan-2009
The Australian Catholic Film Office has named Elissa Down's "Black Balloon" as its film of the year for 2008.
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27-Jan-2009
Ukrainian-rite Bishop Peter Stasiuk, Hobart Archbishop Adrian Doyle, and former South Australian education minister, Greg Crafter, were among the Catholics honoured in the Australia Day list.
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28-Jan-2009
Catholic and state education authorities in Victoria are involved in at least 18 court cases brought by or on behalf of children with disabilities who claim they have been neglected.
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28-Jan-2009
The Conventual Chapter of the Benedictine Community of New Norcia has elected Fr John Herbert the seventh Abbot of New Norcia succeeding the late Abbot Placid Spearritt.
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News - International
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27-Jan-2009
As criticism mounted of Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication on four SSPX bishops, Vatican Cardinal Walter Kasper slammed Holocaust denying comments by rehabilitated Bishop Richard Williamson as "stupid" and "unacceptable".
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29-Jan-2009
Pope Benedict has welcomed the election of Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the new Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow.
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29-Jan-2009
Wellington priest Fr Gerard Burns who smeared paint and blood on a memorial to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a protest is to be charged by New Zealand police.
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28-Jan-2009
Citing food security and environmental concerns, Philippines bishops have called for a country wide moratorium on mining as another part-Australian owned mine project in Mindanao comes under fire over fears of damage to agriculture.
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30-Jan-2009
Indian police have charged ten men with the gang rape of Catholic Sister Meena during weeks of anti-Christian violence in the state of Orissa last year.
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29-Jan-2009
As Sri Lankan government forces close in on rebel positions in the country's north, Jaffna's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace has launched an appeal for assistance to trapped civilians.
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29-Jan-2009
Johannesburg Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale has attacked proposed legislation that will allow the harvesting of eggs from African women for investigation purposes in other countries as "biological colonialism".
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27-Jan-2009
Catholic bishops have accused leaders of the Southern African Development Community of complicity in a "passive genocide" in Zimbabwe by their failure to act against starvation conditions.
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Religion
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30-Jan-2009
Adelaide based Traditional Anglican Communion Archbishop John Hepworth says that he is "quietly and optimistically waiting for an answer" after news broke that Rome may establish a personal prelature for the group.
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Regulars
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30-Jan-2009
Stephanie Wood and David Prior spent their Christmas and New Year touching the lives of children in need. The two young adults from Melbourne were volunteering in Salesians of Don Bosco homes in Bangsak and Chiang Mai, Thailand, as part of the order's recently established Cagliero project. - Amy Simmons, The Catholic Leader
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29-Jan-2009
History may be in the making. It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church, Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a much greater influx of Anglicans waiting on the sidelines. - Anthony Barich, The Record
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28-Jan-2009
There are strangers who know me the moment I open my mouth. They are my father's students, a small army of them, and I am my father's son; at least, I have his speaking voice. I don't have his memory. He astounded generations of law students at the University of Sydney with his recall for case citations. They called him Memory Lane. - Bernard Lane, The Australian
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27-Jan-2009
During the past five years, St Vincent de Paul in NSW has struggled to transform itself from a network of little parish committees into a centrally administered mega charity. Change had to come because the financial affairs of the society were in complete confusion. But the change was painful on all sides because it revealed difficult truths about the society itself. - David Marr, The Sydney Morning Herald
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30-Jan-2009
That the Brisbane Archdiocese's website for its 2009 Lenten Program is primarily about focusing on sales of its resources should not daunt people from visiting this site and appreciating its stylish "grace".
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29-Jan-2009
Brisbane Catholic Education has long had an extensive website serving the needs of its wider community. It currently highlights the newest school in the Archdiocese, Star of the Sea, Cleveland which commenced this week. Another interesting feature of the site is a "sub-site" called Creation, we care. It contains the organisation's ecological action statement and a seven step process for schools to achieve sustainability in their communities.
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28-Jan-2009
A new school year always brings new and different information and the Catholic Education Office in the Archdiocese of Sydney has always been an oasis of material on its schools focusing on its staff, parents and the wider community.
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27-Jan-2009
The website of Catholic Education in South Australia covers the Archdiocese of Adelaide and the Diocese of Port Pirie and includes the South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools. It features the Catholic schools within the state and supports staff, parents, students and the community of South Australia with a well resourced and easy to use site.
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30-Jan-2009
Revolutionary Road can candidly be described as a "downer." There really is no trace of redemption and this will probably mean that many viewers leave the cinema with a mild case of depression. They are continually in search of happiness and contentment, but it is their tragic failure that produces a pinching feeling of frustration. The possibility that things could have been otherwise is always lingering in the background. - John Friday, Thinking Faith
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27-Jan-2009
ABC Local Radio's The Conversation Hour hosted by Richard Fidler in Queensland and New South Wales will today feature an interview with the parish priest of St Mary's at South Brisbane, Fr Peter Kennedy. The parish has been in the media in recent months following criticism of its liturgical practices by the Archbishop of Brisbane.
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28-Jan-2009
Charles Gallagher won the American Catholic Historical Association's prestigious John Gilmary Shea Prize for 2008 for this monograph, the second book to emerge from his doctoral thesis on the diocese of St Augustine, Florida. - Fr Thomas McCoog, Thinking Faith
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30-Jan-2009
Pope Benedict XVI is a great believer in the fait accompli. His lifting of the excommunications of the four bishops of the Society of St Pius X is effectively irrevocable. Catholics and non-Catholics who disapprove of the Pope's decision may protest as much as they like; the deed is done. - The Catholic Herald
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29-Jan-2009
Why are private religious schools allowing themselves to become toxic to social justice, particularly when it comes to the future opportunities of our poorest and most disadvantaged students? Before supporters of private schools trot out heartwarming anecdotes about the struggling families that are part of their community, let me state bluntly that the hard facts do not support their claims to social justice. - Jane Caro, The Age
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28-Jan-2009
We often claim that we are living at a point of history where old approved solutions do not seem to work anymore. It is true. We are living at a time when the old certainties have been eroded and the new solutions are not yet convincing enough. Many find they cannot rely on past certainties and have to struggle to find out what God is asking of them today. - Fr Noel Connolly, St Columban's Mission Society E-News
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27-Jan-2009
That Pope Benedict apparently did not widely discuss a matter that has provoked anger among Jewish groups and liberal Catholics was not out of character. It was just the latest example of how the pope is increasingly focused on internal doctrinal issues and seemingly unaware of how they might resonate in the larger world. - Rachel Donadio, The New York Times
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29-Jan-2009
The inspiring conversion story of Saul the sinner to Paul the saint, is being staged as a contemporary exciting musical by Melbourne's well regarded, Kew Renaissance Theatre. This is a timely recounting of this epic story in the Pauline Year.
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