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05-Mar-2009
Speaking outside a Vatican conference on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, CDF head, Cardinal William Levada, has said there is a "wide spectrum of room" for belief in both the scientific basis for evolution and faith in God the creator.
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05-Mar-2009
New evidence has been found that Pope Pius XII ordered monasteries to shelter Jews being persecuted by the Nazis, the World War II pope's postulator Jesuit Fr Peter Gumpel says.
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02-Mar-2009
Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, says an apology by SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson, whose excommunication was lifted last month, does not go far enough.
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05-Mar-2009
In a call for solidarity with fellow Australians in the Torres Strait and people of the Pacific "who are watching their countries being covered by sea water," Catholic Earthcare has backed this year's WWF Earth Hour 2009.
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04-Mar-2009
Over 60 religious leaders including Oceania bishops conference president, Bishop Peter Ingham, have written to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to express their deep concerns with the Government's "inadequate" response to climate change.
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02-Mar-2009
Australian Catholic University and the Uniting Church's Trinity Theological College signed what they describe as a "historic" agreement pledging a sharing of teaching, resources and research.
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06-Mar-2009
Youth Off the Streets CEO, Fr Chris Riley, has warned parents not to ignore warning signs that their children are suffering from bullying.
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News - National
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05-Mar-2009
Founded in 1999 by Jesuit Fr Michael Kelly, CathNews, one of the Catholic world's earliest exclusively web based publications, turns ten this month.
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03-Mar-2009
Three Sydney teenage boys are under arrest over a machete armed rampage that caused over $30,000 damage and forced Trinity Catholic College, Auburn in western Sydney into lockdown.
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02-Mar-2009
The Holy See has vetoed a joint Pentecostal service planned by the Newcastle and Maitland Catholic and Anglican bishops.
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05-Mar-2009
Melbourne Archdiocese has forwarded details on the proposed sale of Geelong's central city St Mary's Catholic Primary School site to the Vatican for endorsement.
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06-Mar-2009
Police are appealing for public assistance following a suspicious fire at a Catholic church in Sydney's south-west last night.
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04-Mar-2009
A suspicious overnight blaze has destroyed the performing arts centre at Tamworth's McCarthy Catholic College in northern New South Wales.
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04-Mar-2009
The Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal has lodged a complaint with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission against Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby and the archdiocese alleging discrimination against Aboriginal people.
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06-Mar-2009
A visit to Adelaide by Ireland's Rosary Apostolate director, Fr Anthony McMullan, will become the launch pad for a bid to promote new life for the Rosary in the archdiocese.
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02-Mar-2009
Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey's home has become a haven for homeless people, many of whom are indigenous, looking for emergency accommodation but much more needs to be done, he believes.
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News - International
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04-Mar-2009
In the midst of the global financial crisis, "priority should be given to workers and their families," Pope Benedict has said.
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03-Mar-2009
The number of Catholics grew to 1.147 billion in 2007 with the number of priests also increasing while the number of bishops worldwide is closing on 5,000, Vatican statistics show.
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03-Mar-2009
The angels are a significant part of the Gospel and we should call upon them often, Pope Benedict told Lenten crowds in St Peter's Square on Sunday.
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06-Mar-2009
A Canadian bishop, Ronald Fabbro has ordered an investigation and advised the Vatican after allegations surfaced that a local Catholic hospital has been performing "eugenic" abortions.
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02-Mar-2009
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen has married American football superstar New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, in a Catholic wedding in Santa Monica, California.
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05-Mar-2009
Italian priests have suggested that instead of giving up cigarettes and chocolates for Lent, Catholics could give up text messaging or turn off their MP3 players.
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03-Mar-2009
A nun and four orphans have organised an international sled dog race in a remote village in Central Russia with the first dog for the competition coming from Australia.
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03-Mar-2009
Davao City Archbishop Fernando Capalla has ordered all priests and chaplains in the archdiocese to carry out obligatory prayer on bended knee in reparation for a spate of unsolved extra judicial killings in the city.
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02-Mar-2009
The lifting of the ban on the use of the word "Allah" for God in Catholic services and publications has been rescinded Malaysian Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has announced saying the government had made a "mistake".
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05-Mar-2009
A proposed agreement between the Holy See and Cairo's Sunni Muslim Al Azhar University to rewrite school books to eliminate any offensive language about each others' religions has drawn fire from Egyptian scholars.
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04-Mar-2009
Pope Benedict will celebrate the main public Mass of his forthcoming May visit to Israel in Nazareth, and not in Haifa, as originally proposed.
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06-Mar-2009
The Brazilian Church has announced the excommunication of those responsible for an abortion carried out on a nine year girl who had been pregnant with twins after allegedly being raped by her stepfather.
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06-Mar-2009
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference says it made a mistake in giving the go-ahead to use new Vatican approved Mass translations perceived as an "arbitrary imposition" of foreign liturgical values by "faceless" Rome bureaucrats.
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03-Mar-2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced former Rwandan Catholic priest, Emmanuel Rukundo, to 25 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity relating to the 1994 genocide.
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Regulars
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06-Mar-2009
Of all the beautiful gardens and parks in Rome, the most delightful and best-kept are the gardens of the Vatican. Originally designed to display the might and majesty of the popes in the years when they wore the triple crown of secular princes and ruled wide territories, today they are emblems of spiritual and Church power. - Kildare Dobbs, The Catholic Herald
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05-Mar-2009
The strong rhetoric of the Catholic Church on Creation-care remains largely an optional extra for its organisations, economic and institutional gains still take precedence over ecological protection in the vast majority of situations. In some dioceses a distinct greening of policy and praxis is evident. In others the almighty dollar and the interests of the Church still take absolute priority over ecological values, even in the face of parishioners' opposition. - Steven Douglas, Eureka Street
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04-Mar-2009
When The Redeemer of Man appeared thirty years ago, Redemptorists, as their name would imply, could not but be interested in its message. As we see now, looking back after these three decades, this first encyclical was to a large degree a first run at many of the themes that John Paul II would constantly visit during his long pontificate. As with so many of his encyclicals, there was something here for everyone. - Fr Tony Kelly, Redemptorists Australia & New Zealand
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03-Mar-2009
There is no doubt that Pius XII was aware of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime and it is suggested that he felt unable to condemn Nazism unless he issued a parallel condemnation of Communism of which he was a vociferous opponent, despite the efforts of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Hitler. - Danny Rich, guardian.co.uk
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02-Mar-2009
In 1999 Fr Gerard Burns was in East Timor and was part of a convoy of trucks and cars distributing food and medical supplies to terrified villagers on the eve of the independence referendum. It was ambushed by a hostile militia who began beating up and shooting at aid workers. The convoy tried to move on but were blocked by the mob. Fr Burns wearing his white cassock stood in the middle of the road and pleaded with the mob to let the convoy pass. - Fr Brian O'Connell, Marist Messenger
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06-Mar-2009
Aid to the Church in Need is an international Catholic charity which yearly offers financial support to more than 5,000 projects worldwide. It supports the poor and persecuted churches with prayer, pastoral relief and material assistance. Help is given to refugees of all denominations.
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05-Mar-2009
St Michael's Family Centre is a charitable work conducted by the Parramatta congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. It has a long and proud history having started as a home for boys in 1902 and now comprises a crisis care and supported accommodation program; a low cost residence providing short term acommodation for people with family members in hospital and a variety of child care programs and services.
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04-Mar-2009
During a period of renewal in 2008, New Zealand Marist Father, John Murphy created this website of significant places and names in the Marist foundation story. It contains resources, stories and images in addition to aids for pilgrims to the sites.
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03-Mar-2009
Caritas Australia's Project Compassion initiative is not only the organisation's major fundraising venture but it is also an icon across the Church and the Australian community.
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02-Mar-2009
With a proud 53 year history, St Veronica Welfare Committee is a registered charity, supporting needy children for their education, and providing funds for poverty relief projects, especially for women, in developing countries. The organisation operates with all lay volunteers and its website suggests it is currently supporting 1,400 children in 100 centres around the world.
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03-Mar-2009
The Combination tackles issues relevant to Australian society through a story about one family, the kind of film Australians should be making more often. Touching on, and holding up for serious discussion, the various aspects of urban multicultural society, George Basha's script is built on the solid foundations of observation and personal experience. - Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
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04-Mar-2009
This documentary shines a spotlight on Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna formed in 1967 as a kind of Christian answer to the Nation of Islam's Black Nationalism. Produced in the lead-up to last year's US election, the film looks at black masculinity through the prism of the Church as well as against the context of economic downturn in a city reliant on the fate of the motor industry.
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06-Mar-2009
Attending the wedding of a Catholic that is not going to be recognised as valid by the Church is an instance of what is called cooperation in evil. I leave aside the question of whether the person getting married actually regards their action as sinful. They may not, but it is still objectively wrong. - Fr John Flader, The Record
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05-Mar-2009
I think we often misunderstand the purpose of religion. For most of us the purpose of religion is to give us easy, comfortable certainties (a fundamentalist approach). Actually religion should provoke in us deeper and greater questions but also give us the faith and hope to live courageously through them into a deeper and more joyful life. - Fr Noel Connolly, St Columban's Mission Society E-News
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04-Mar-2009
The Vatican is taking far too long to sort out the crisis caused by the collapse of the Legionaries of Christ and their lay arm, Regnum Christi, following the revelation that their supposedly saint like founder, Fr Marcial Maciel, led a double life. - Damian Thompson, Telegraph.co.uk
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03-Mar-2009
Lent invites us to stop eating whatever protects us from having to face the desert that is inside of us. It invites us to feel our smallness, to feel our vulnerability, to feel our fears, and to open ourselves up to the chaos of the desert so that we can finally give the angels a chance to feed us. That's the Christian ideal of Lent, to face one's chaos. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, Western Catholic Reporter
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02-Mar-2009
The rationality of theology includes a poetic/historic outlook that cannot be tested at the bar of logical positivism. Theological insights find a place in both the heart and the mind, they appeal to the whole person, not just the rational nor just the emotional. They are more like art than a scientific hypothesis. This is not special pleading on behalf of theology but recognition that it has its own discipline as do most intellectual pursuits. - Peter Sellick, Online Opinion
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05-Mar-2009
A one day forum with leading Australian Catholics as speakers devoted to analysis and discussion on Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's controversial book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus and the issues raised about the book by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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02-Mar-2009
A weekend for young Catholics to Rest, Reflect and Relax in Melbourne at the Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre and to meet others interested in renewing their spirituality.
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06-Mar-2009
This groundbreaking production will change forever the face of Catholic music. It combines the unmistakable voice of Liam Neeson, one of the world's finest actors with the glorious hymns and prayers of St Alphonsus Liguori, one of the Church's greatest saints.
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