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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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Papal envoy arrives in Katrina stricken area
Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, the president of the ‘Cor Unum’ Pontifical Society, continues his tour of visit to people suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina in the USA. 
catholicireland.net reports that, on his arrival, he met the Bishop Robert Muench of the local diocese and the president of the Catholic Charities USA, Fr Larry Snyder.
On Sunday, he concelebrated Mass in the St Joseph’s Cathedral of Baton Rouge, when the victims of the natural catastrophe and all the victims of violence were remembered on the fourth anniversary of 11 September 2001. Joining him were the Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans, Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C., retired Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans and Bishop Robert Muench of Baton Rouge.
He also met the other bishops of the area as well as the Governor of Louisiana. The group also visited the displaced of the Mississippi delta sheltered in Baton Rouge and spoke to the numerous people engaged in the rescue efforts.
Archbishop Cordes also hopes to tour hurricane-ravaged areas by helicopter on Monday, and then visit the Diocese of Biloxi. He will go to Washington DC on Tuesday to meet with federal authorities. He is due to return to the Vatican on September 14.
Before the catastrophe, which may have left thousands dead, New Orleans was an archdiocese of one and a half million people, more than a third of them practising Catholics. Now the city, which makes up about half the archdiocese, is virtually empty. At this stage it is not certain if any priests are among the victims of the storm, the flooding, or the resulting anarchy.
Last week, US President George Bush announced that 16 September is to be the "National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina."
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Papal Envoy arrives in Katrina stricken area (catholicireland.net 12/9/05)
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Catholic Charities USA
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Vatican charity chief heads to Louisiana (CathNews 12/9/05)
Catholics across US opening doors to Katrina victims (CathNews 8/9/05)
Australian Catholic leader offers prayers for Katrina victims (CathNews 7/9/05)
Katrina's toll on diocesan infrastructure (CathNews 6/9/05)
Pope sends Katrina aid (CathNews 5/9/05)
Church reaches out to hurricane victims (CathNews 2/9/05)
Catholic Charities prepared for hurricane relief effort (CathNews 31/8/05)
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Catholic Charities USA brings relief to the streets in Biloxi, Miss. (Catholic News Service 12/9/05)
Papal envoy in Louisiana, meets Katrina victims (Catholic World News 12/9/05)
Missing: Father Red, the priest who refused to flee (Sydney Morning Herald 13/9/05)
13 Sep 2005
