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The number of tourists to Australia in World Youth Day month, July 2008, jumped by 47,000 compared with the same month last year, figures show.
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NSW parents lobby to keep free student travel
The New South Wales Catholic Education Commission has confirmed that it has called on parents of children in Catholic schools to lobby for the scrapping of a new travel levy for students.
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Qld, Vic school teachers in new abuse cases
A former Catholic College Bendigo staff member has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two young boys twenty years ago while a Darling Downs Catholic school teacher has been charged with seven counts of rape.
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Catholic Healthcare pilots squalor phone hotline
Catholic Healthcare is to launch a Sydney telephone hotline to coordinate responses to people living in domestic squalor.
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Poland's Wyszynski proposed Wojtyla
Cardinal Stefan Wyszinski declined to be nominated as pope during a 1978 conclave, proposing instead his compatriot Karol Wojtyla, the late Polish primate's journal reveals.
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Vatican denounces Congo "massacre of the poor"
Describing recents events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a "massacre of the poor", Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi called for world support to end the violence and assist refugees.
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Feature - A positive legacy comes from grief
David and Samantha Meyn of East Maitland have gained wisdom beyond their years after losing their son Harrison, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 6, in July 2006. Oscar, now 7 and Campbell, 3, speak often of their older brother and love to draw attention to the photos displayed at home. - Tracey Edstein, Aurora
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Featured Website - Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
The western Sydney based Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education is the organisation behind the documentary on Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, A Well Founded Fear, which airs on SBS TV tonight. The Centre is a ministry of the Christian Brothers and has a history of advocacy and campaigning on social justice issues.
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Radio - The Rhythm Divine: The Rapping Priest
Fr Stan Fortuna is a Catholic priest and a founding member of the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, an order established in the heart of the South Bronx in 1987. But he is also a musician known worldwide as "the rapping priest". Even after 20 years it's not a title he's totally comfortable with.
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Opinion - A moment in history for Anglicans and Catholics
2008 has been a year of potentially historic breakthroughs between Anglican Christians and the Chair of Peter. Many Catholics have noted with great interest the growing number of Anglicans who have approached the possibility of coming into full communion with the Catholic Church. - Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online
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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
FEATURED CATHOLIC WEBSITE
Catholic Education Diocese of ParramattaReturning to our education theme, we shine the spotlight on arguably the most innovative Catholic education website in the country. In addition to all the standard features of any CEO site, Parramatta's includes some interactive opinion polls and a competition for students to attempt to ''Become the Executive Director for the day''. The site is also well regarded for its RE and curriculum resources.
- www.parra.catholic.edu.au
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Economic disenchantment root cause of Solomons rioting
A former priest in the Solomon Islands said government corruption and economic disenchantment are the root causes behind the Islands' riots following Tuesday's election of Prime Minister Snyder Rini.
According to The Australian, Solomon Islands Development Trust founder Dr John Roughan also said the "shuffling of the chairs" at the election did not help the situation.
Although The Australian described him as a priest, Dr Roughan left the priesthood many years ago and has since 1958 been engaged in development work in the Solomon Islands.
He said yesterday that many voters expected Mr Rini and his predecessor, Allan Kemakeza, to be ousted in the general election after years of claims of kickbacks and misappropriation spanning two successive governments
Solomon Islanders thought they "were going to be investigated and sent to trial, and they were not", he said.
Sir Allan faces corruption allegations over a $US25 million ($33.8 million) loan from Taiwan - whose sovereignty the Solomons had controversially recognised in the United Nations - to pay compensation on property damaged in the civil war that raged from 1998 to 2003.
While most people affected by the civil war received no money, it was later discovered that Sir Allan had organised $US1.5 million for his family. The scandal was largely behind the swing against his government and, some say, his decision to step aside.
In the background of alleged corrupt deals are also the ethnic Chinese, who dominate trade in the capital, Chinese and Malaysian loggers, Japanese tuna fishermen and the Taiwanese.
It is the buying of votes or "Chinese money" - a slur in Honiara chanted outside parliament on Tuesday when Mr Rini's election was announced - that many believe was behind the former public servant's elevation to the top job.
SOURCE
Graft claims over PM sparked strife (The Australian/news.com.au 20/4/06)
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