http://www.cathnews.com a Service of Church Resources http://www.cathnews.com http://www.cathnews.com/_sharedimg/img_cathnews_logo_rss.jpg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CathNews Fri, 24 May 2013 11:27:08 +1100 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:27:08 +1100 Christians are called to welcome and cooperate with the good accomplished by members of other religions or no religion at all, promoting a culture of dialogue and peace, Pope Francis said on Wednesday, reports the Catholic news Service on NCR. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36322 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36322 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Pope Francis has received a bloodstained relic of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero as a gift from El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes Cartagena, reports the Catholic News service in The Catholic Herald. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36326 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36326 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 The director of the Vatican's Financial Intelligence Authority (pictured) said the Vatican will further amend its finance-related laws in the coming months, increase screening of account holders at the Vatican bank and continue assessing the potential risk that accounts could be used for money laundering and the financing of terrorism, reports the Catholic News Service. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36324 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36324 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 The US bishops' conference has urged a public discussion on the use of unmanned targeted killings, also known as drones, and their moral implications, in letters to top government officials, reports the Catholic News Agency. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36323 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36323 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Pope Paul VI guided the Second Vatican Council to produce “a number of truly excellent documents and realignments of Church life in conformity with the Scriptures and the soundest tradition”, the Archbishop of Sydney, George Cardinal Pell, said at the start of the Great Grace Conference on Monday, reports The Catholic Weekly.  http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36312 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36312 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 A broad coalition of faith leaders have condemned the murder of a serving soldier in broad daylight in London yesterday afternoon by two men believed to be Islamist militants, reports The Tablet. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36325 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36325 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns has been excused from giving evidence to the Victorian government inquiry into institutionalised sexual abuse, reports The Ballarat Courier. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36317 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36317 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 The NSW Catholic Education Commission has sent a letter to diocesan directors and principals, urging them to seek immediate meetings with local federal MPs to query the shifting Gonski funding figures, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36321 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36321 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Growing up Catholic in England, Candida Moss felt secure in life, yet was told in church that Christians have been persecuted since the dawn of Christianity. Now, as an adult and a theologian, she wants to set the record straight. Too many modern Christians invoke, to lamentable effect, an ancient history of persecution that didn’t exist, Moss argues in her newly published book, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented A Story of Martyrdom, reports Religion News Service on Ucanews.  http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36327 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36327 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Caritas Australia's Global Gifts section has a wide range of special gift ideas. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36358 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36358 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Actor Greg Kinnear plays an author who, since his divorce, is struggling with writer's block in A Place for Me. He lives with his two children who have also been affected by the separation and face their own relationship dramas as a consequence. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36329 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36329 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100 It became clear during the recent meeting with Pope Francis in Rome is that while LCWR’s troubles may be an important part of the story, they remain only a portion of the larger global picture coming to light among leaders of women religious around the world, writes NCR in an editorial. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36330 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=36330 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +1100