News
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05-Feb-2009
The Vatican Secretariat of State has said that Pope Benedict was unaware of Bishop Richard Williamson's Holocaust minimising positions prior to lifting his excommunication and has demanded that the SSPX prelate recant his views prior to full communion.
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04-Feb-2009
Cardinal Walter Kasper has stepped up his criticism over the Vatican's handling of the lifting of the excommunication of SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson while German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict to clearly reject holocaust denial.
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04-Feb-2009
In his just released Lenten message for 2009, Pope Benedict says fasting is important "therapy" for modern Catholics because it helps make them aware of the deprived state in which many people live.
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03-Feb-2009
A Vatican source has reportedly denied rumours that Rome has decided to create a personal prelature for members of the Traditional Anglican Communion.
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02-Feb-2009
In a bid to find out why numbers have decreased so drastically over the last 40 years, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has announced an apostolic visitation of US religious women's institutes.
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05-Feb-2009
Eluana Englaro, the woman at the centre of Italy's right to die debate has been transferred to a hospital where she is to be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state.
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02-Feb-2009
More people are volunteering, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal, but most volunteers are Christians and/or women.
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05-Feb-2009
Public schools are to receive 70 percent of nearly $14 billion in new funding for all schools if the Rudd Government's second stimulus package is passed with another 20 percent of the funds to go to Catholic schools.
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02-Feb-2009
Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard wants to expand a Rudd Government program under which government and non-government schools will share facilities following an overwhelming number of funding submissions.
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02-Feb-2009
"Nurse the nation", a new program created by Mater Health Services Brisbane executive, Caroline Hudson, to recruit travelling and holidaying nurses and midwives for short term placements around Australia, launched last week.
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News - National
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06-Feb-2009
Sydney Life, Marriage and Family Centre director, Chris Meney, has attacked a push by the Parliamentary Group on Population & Development to overturn Australia's ban on using aid money for abortions as "ideologically driven".
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06-Feb-2009
Former Religion Report radio host Stephen Crittenden has returned to work three months after his suspension for attacking ABC management on air over the axing of his show.
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06-Feb-2009
A search on Telstra subsidiary Sensis White Pages online telephone directory for a magic shop in Queensland comes up with a single answer, a listing for the Catholic Church in the Townsville diocese.
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04-Feb-2009
Catholic social service and educational institutions have welcomed the Rudd Government's second stimulus package released yesterday.
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04-Feb-2009
Sydney Cardinal George Pell will today tell the Australian Workers Union's national conference that the world's economic problems are extreme and have been radically worsened by the erosion of "social capital".
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03-Feb-2009
A dispute between an abuse victim and the Maitland-Newcastle diocese over the distribution of the estate of convicted pedophile, Fr James Fletcher, has been settled.
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02-Feb-2009
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has backed a warning by Pope Benedict for marriage tribunals not to fall into the trap of making "exaggerated and almost automatic multiplication of declarations of nullity."
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03-Feb-2009
Speaking after the annual Red Mass to open the 2009 law term, New South Wales Chief Justice Jim Spigelman challenged lawyers to cut their costs and charges to clients or risk being marginalised.
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06-Feb-2009
Queensland Education Minister Rod Welford has ordered an investigation into the possible failure of a Toowoomba Catholic primary school and Catholic Education to act on complaints of sexual abuse by a teacher over a year before he was arrested.
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03-Feb-2009
Fifteen thousand WA Catholic primary school students will star in their own movie, shot by their teachers in a new program introduced by the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia.
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04-Feb-2009
Canberra-Goulburn diocese's CatholicLIFE is launching a new series of audio visual learning resources beginning with a DVD presentation for the Year of Paul by Archbishop Mark Coleridge.
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News - International
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05-Feb-2009
A Legionaries of Christ spokesperson has revealed the order has concluded that its founder, Mexican priest, Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, was guilty of conduct that is "difficult to understand, and inappropriate for a Catholic priest."
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02-Feb-2009
SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson has apologised to Pope Benedict for the "unnecessary distress and problems" caused by his "imprudent remarks" but the fallout over the lifting of his excommunication continues.
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06-Feb-2009
Palmerston North Bishop Peter Cullinane has launched a nationwide search in New Zealand for a new symbol to identify Catholic clergy.
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05-Feb-2009
French priest, Fr Patrick Desbois, have opened an exhibition in Paris exposing the "Holocaust by bullets" perpetrated by Nazi forces on Jews in the Ukraine.
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03-Feb-2009
The new bishop of Linz, Austria, is controversial priest, Fr Gerhard Maria Wagner, who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans and described Harry Potter novels as "satanism", Pope Benedict has decided.
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03-Feb-2009
British community nurse, Caroline Petrie, has been suspended without pay and faces sacking and possibly being struck off after she offered to say a prayer for an elderly patient.
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05-Feb-2009
Bombs injured a Sri Lankan Caritas worker and destroyed a sub office of the Catholic development organisation in the Vanni region, scene of the latest fighting between the Sri Lankan Government and the rebel group LTTE.
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05-Feb-2009
Bolivian President Evo Morales has told the World Social Forum the Catholic Church is the "main enemy" of the reforms his government hopes to implement in the country and that the Church needs to be replaced.
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06-Feb-2009
Severe flooding on the main island of Guadalcanal and neighbouring Savo Island has washed away homes and bridges and affected 1,800 families in the Solomon Islands, a Caritas Australia report says.
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Regulars
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06-Feb-2009
They are praying types, the good folk of St Mary's College, just outside San Francisco. This week they will be dusting off their rosaries and asking for a special favour. Sure the almighty might be busy dealing with the global financial meltdown, but the busted hand of Australia's next basketball superstar needs mending. Quick smart. - Dan Silkstone, WA Today.com.au
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05-Feb-2009
Character lies deeper than our values and far deeper than our philosophies, allegiances, memberships, or accomplishments. Our character is the deepest expression of what constitutes us as unique individuals. Character is our personal seal, our indelible imprint. - Fr Chris Gleeson, Province Express
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04-Feb-2009
Just over a year after Beijing Catholics got a new bishop, they are divided over his episcopate as more and more accuse him of betraying the Holy See. Monsignor Joseph Li Shan, 44, was ordained with papal approval. But after more than year in office his attitude towards the Vatican seems to have changed. For many Catholics the clergyman is getting too cozy with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), and moving too far away from the Holy See. - AsiaNews.it
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03-Feb-2009
The monastery is an oasis, especially so in these times of economic difficulty, empty distractions, materialism, exhibitionism, substance abuse, violence. You feel the serenity as soon as you walk through the gates, and it is confirmed when you meet the nuns, who are transfixing in their gentleness, surprising in their tolerance, refreshing in their (sometimes dry) humour, and invigorating in their practicality. - Gabriella Coslovich, The Age
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02-Feb-2009
Recently it occurred to me that God had indeed visited the stigmata upon me many decades ago despite all evidence to the contrary. Many people, I have no doubt, have likewise been afflicted. - Bill Farrelly, Marist Messenger
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06-Feb-2009
We have YouTube, GodTube and now Catholic Tube. In the same traditions of video and broadcast sharing websites, this latest incarnation proclaims that it is broadcasting Christ and His Church to the world.
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05-Feb-2009
Showing the immediacy and the fast moving pace of social networking and the contemporary internet, LOL Saints is a light hearted website initially developed following an exchange between two users of the ever expanding, Twitter. It features a daily saint along with a quick, and easily digestible biography of that person.
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04-Feb-2009
The Melbourne Province of the Marist Brothers covers the Australian states of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. It has a well established website which focuses on the programs and initiatives of the Province, including its well regarded youth ministry.
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03-Feb-2009
St John's College, Darwin has the motto "Strong in Faith" to which it adds the tagline "Strong in Education." Founded by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1960 as a Day and Boarding School for boys. The College combined with Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College for girls after Cyclone Tracey and is now a secondary Catholic coeducational Day and Boarding School in the tradition of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.
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02-Feb-2009
ROMEreports offers religious based programs geared to meeting the needs of television broadcasting companies around the world, offering extensive reporting from Rome, and coverage of the life of the Church, papal addresses and other current social, political, economic, cultural and religious debates taking place in and around the Vatican.
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04-Feb-2009
Changeling is unforgettable. Unforgettable for its extraordinary story; unforgettable for Angelina Jolie's haunting performance; unforgettable for its subtly beautiful cinematography denoting its 1920s setting; unforgettable for Clint Eastwood's masterful filmmaking and the simplicity with which he tells the tale. But most of all, Changeling is unforgettable for its impact. This heart-rending story could only be true, so bizarre are the elements - a missing child, a mother's unyielding love, corruption, manipulation, murder. - Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
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02-Feb-2009
The first Compass program for 2009 sees Geraldine Doogue interview high profile Catholic convert and a man intent on underscoring the importance of religion in the twenty first century, Tony Blair. In this interview he speaks on how faith has informed his politics and what he hopes his new "Faith Foundation" will achieve on the world stage.
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05-Feb-2009
Fr George W. O'Malley of Georgetown University in Washington DC is the special guest on this edition of The Spirit of Things where he examines the debates and assesses the achievements of Vatican II. He is joined by the Chair of the Council of Christians and Jews - Victoria, William Clancy, who comments on what Vatican II did for Christian-Jewish relations.
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06-Feb-2009
Anyone reading the life of Christ in the gospels does so out of their own life experience. Jesus Christ consciously and deliberately identified himself with "ritually unclean" people who were ostracised and therefore, on the edge of their culture. This identification with them became the story of his success; it also led to his seeming failure on the Cross. - Fr Leo Donnelly, The Far East
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05-Feb-2009
The Federal Government's stimulus package is staggering for its size and for the message it sends about the severity of the economic challenge that Canberra believes lies ahead, but what does it do for Australians who are already doing it tough or for those who will fall into that category as the economy tightens? - Michael Perusco, The Age
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04-Feb-2009
Recurrent themes in President Barack Obama's speeches have been the need to give adequate weight to the "common good" and to find a new balance of the "me" and the "we". To cross boundaries that divide us; to care for others; to be inclusive; to fulfill responsibilities, not just claim rights; and to hold the future on trust for those who follow us. - Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet
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03-Feb-2009
The official Jewish response to Pope Benedict XVI recent decision to reach out to the St Pius X Society and to revoke the excommunication (though not yet determining the status) of four bishops says a great deal about the psycho-social state of American Jewish leadership or at least the leadership that claims to speak for American Jews. - Rabbi Irwin Kula, washingtonpost.com
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02-Feb-2009
How often do we hear about the misinterpretations occurring through the use of phone texts and emails? It seems to be at a point where what was once designed to be a convenience for us, has now become the way of communication. This is not only sad for the English language in the loss of the wonder of creative expression, but sad in the pace of our life is squeezing out phrases and sentences and replacing them with hieroglyphics. - Pauline Connelly, The Southern Cross
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06-Feb-2009
Brisbane's Griffith University Multifaith Centre is hosting an inter-faith summit titled One Humanity, Many Faiths seeking to promote peace and harmony in Australia and the Asia/Pacific region.
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03-Feb-2009
Melbourne: Making a Difference will feature culturally diverse music, dance, ritual and cuisine, as well as highlighting the issues of reconciliation and climate change.
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