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Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and representatives of other Orthodox and Anglican churches accompanied Pope Benedict in lighting a candle to launch the Year of St Paul.
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Volunteers refuse WYD powers
Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Service volunteers will not seek "authorised person" status while assisting with WYD in order to avoid "negative interactions with people".
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Vietnam up, US down on WYD numbers
A record number of Vietnamese pilgrims will attend World Youth Day this year but US numbers are down - and 50 Angola pilgrims are stranded in Sydney instead of Adelaide because tour organisers thought the SA capital was only an hour way.
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Celebrate the living spirit: Bishops urge
Australia's bishops have urged Catholics to "celebrate the Living Spirit" to mark Aboriginal and Torres Islander Sunday this weekend.
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Korean priests in Mass protest against US beef
Two hundred South Korean priests have celebrated a street Mass in Seoul to protest an unpopular government decision to resume beef imports from the US.
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Bees for Benedict
Italian scooter manufacturer Piaggio has presented Pope Benedict with two new specially made three wheeled vehicles.
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Feature - Walking away from what they do not know
"People who leave the Church are not leaving because they are rejecting the teachings of John Paul II or Pope Benedict. Most do so because they go to Catholic schools and they think that the kind of warm secular humanism with Christian gloss that they get in Catholic schools is in fact the Catholic faith and it hasn't captured their imagination, their love or their intellect so they are walking away from something that they do not know." - The Catholic Herald
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Featured Website - First Things
First Things is a monthly ecumenical journal concerned with the creation of a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society." It is published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life in the United States of America.
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Film Review - Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is essentially a martial arts comedy and is a total action movie. It has striking effects and action sequences and a particularly impressive concluding fantasy sequence which brings DreamWorks to a new level of technological sophistication. There is a strong cultural feel about the movie and it heavily draws on Chinese culture to bring authenticity to its fantasy. - Peter Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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Opinion - God is without circumference
His challenge was to see the beauty in every face, even when the owner of that face had long given up on it. Surely, that is to love others as Jesus did—Jesus the One who never gives up on us. If we are to love as Jesus loved, we need to be forgiving people. Forgiving people are bridge-builders and reconcilers. - Fr Chris Gleeson, Madonna
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OPINION
Beyond knowledge to wisdomI believe this is one of the crisis points for contemporary Christianity. Put bluntly, its representatives do not seem wise. Yes, those representatives can give you any amount of information, some of them can even speak knowledgeably of Christian teachings. Wisdom is another thing altogether. - Fr Michael Whelan [More] - Aquinas Academy
FEATURE
Connected across bordersIt is time for leaders of nations to see their national interests as connected with the interests of people on the other side of the globe. We have reached the point where human existence is at stake and our destiny is inextricably linked. If we are to overcome this crisis of climate change we need to think beyond the confines of national states. - Just Comment [More] - Edmund Rice Centre
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Bishop urges Govt to tread softly on IR
Bishop Patrick Dougherty of Bathurst (NSW) has warned the Federal Government not to include material in the upcoming industrial relations legislation that will not be in the best interests of Australian workers.
He told the Catholic Weeklythat the Government's approach to matters which will form part of the legislation has triggered "lively discussion, notable concern and increasing agitation" in the community.
"It is clear that this concern and expression of it are not restricted to the unions, whose anger, and perhaps agitation, the Government would have foreseen," he said. The Government's undoubtedly costly efforts to assuage concerns – via, for example, whole-page newspaper advertisements – may be interpreted as a growing realisation that public concern is on a much wider scale than was expected."
The Weekly says some of this concern could be born from the powerful position that the Government now holds in parliament, with a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and "the potential danger, or temptation, to include material which may not be in the pondered interests of the national family's good".
It says the bishop hit back at what he referred to as "surprise and disappointment" on the part of the Government that Church voices have also expressed concern.
"The proposed legislation cannot be honourably assessed without taking into consideration its potential impact for or against the primacy of human rights and justice – a realm on which Christians and their leaders cannot be, in conscience, uninterested or silent," he said.
"As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the aim of our comment – so that, in this preparatory stage of the preparation of the legislation's draft text, its contribution may assist towards a clearly just legislation – is not political, but built on the foundations of the Church's mission and its century-long study of workplace conditions in the light of the Gospel."
Over this time the Church has developed a "profound and detailed view of the ideal work-place".
SOURCE
Bishop urges Govt to tread softly on IR (Catholic Weekly 4/9/05)
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ARCHIVE
Minister says full employment is Catholic "first principle" (CathNews 19/8/05)
Remote area voice sees PM ´off target´ on IR (CathNews 12/8/05)
Commission answers PM´s denial of existence of Catholic position (CathNews 10/8/05)
PM dismisses voice of Church (CathNews 8/8/05)
Melbourne Archbishop coordinating IR response (CathNews 3/8/05)
Minister tells churches to stay out of IR fight (CathNews 11/7/05)
Pell voices wages concerns (CathNews 4/7/05)
Canberra bishop speaks out on job insecurity fears (CathNews 1/7/04)
Church leaders worried about Howard IR changes (CathNews 29/6/05)
Bishop hits back at Minister´s claims on IR reforms 1/6/05)
Catholic body seeks meeting with Minister over workplace laws (CathNews 30/5/05)
MORE STORIES
Editorial: Labor Day (America 29/8/05)
Labor Day message sees challenges to living the 'Gospel of work' (Catholic News Service 25/8/05)
Labor Day 2005: Time to Recall the Teaching of Pope John Paul II on Work and Workers (US Conference of Catholic Bishops 25/8/05)
Industrial relations and Church teaching (ABC Radio The Religion Report 17/8/05)
Federal Industrial Relations Reforms (Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Brisbane 15/8/05)
Tony Smith: The parable of the Bees (Online Catholics 17/8/05)
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