Thursday, 23 February 2012

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BBI and Uni of Newcastle team up to teach theology

Published: 22 February 2012

The Theology faculty from The Broken Bay Institute and The University of Newcastle will team up for the first time to teach together on campus and online in the 2012 academic year, the Institute said in a media release.

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Project Compassion launched in Sydney

Published: 22 February 2012

Caritas Australia's Project Compassion for this year was officially launched by Cardinal George Pell during the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, according to a media release by the organisation.

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Latest: Media Releases

New era for Theology in Australia.doc

Project Compassion Sydney Launch.doc

Ronnie Burns to open Tasmanian Centacare conference.doc

NCEC says families must come first in new school funding model.pdf

President of Bishops' Conference expresses delight at appointment of new Perth Archbishop.pdf

News - National

More work needed to assess Gonski resource standard

Published: 22 February 2012

Dan White, executive director of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney, said he believed that the principle of resource standard contained in the Gonski report had merit, but work needed to be done to assess how it would impact on Catholic schools, reports The Catholic Weekly.

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CatholicCare supports NSW payment for carers

Published: 22 February 2012

CatholicCare Sydney said it supports the NSW Government's measure to improve training and educational outcomes for young people in out-of-home care with an annual payment of $6000 to carers, reports The Catholic Weekly.

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News - International

Cuban achbishop prevents police assault on female protesters

Published: 22 February 2012

A Cuban archbishop has intervened to prevent 14 members of the Women in White protest group from being assaulted by Cuban police agents, reports the Catholic News Agency.

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PM says same-sex marriage inevitable, according to dinner guests

Published: 21 February 2012

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told three same-sex couples she believes laws allowing them to marry in Australia are inevitable, said a report in The Canberra Times.

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One million Australians are compulsive hoarders

Published: 21 February 2012

More than 1 million Australians are compulsive hoarders and many of them need urgent medical help, according to a newly-released report by Catholic Community Services, reports the ABC.

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Dig fails to find first MacKillop school site

Published: 22 February 2012

Archaeologists and Flinders University students have failed to find the site of Mary MacKillop's first school in Penola, said a report from The Advertiser on AdelaideNow.

Feature - German-speaking clergy divided over 'disobedience'

The conflict between liberal and conservative currents in the German-speaking Catholic world has led to “an open split” within the clergy, according to the latest issue of the German news magazine Der Spiegel, reports Vatican Insider.

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Feature - Mexican Catholics' disconnect between faith and practice

Mexican church leaders are perplexed at the disconnect in the way so many Mexicans identify themselves as Catholic, but fail to bring church teaching into their daily lives, reports the Catholic News Service.

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Featured website - Heroic news.org

Heroic Media, a faith-based company that promotes alternatives to abortion through mass media, has an online news portal at Heroicnews.org. The initiative is aimed at making a broad cultural impact, complementing its current outreach to women in crisis pregnancies.

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Radio review: Religion and Ethics Report

Could David Gonski’s review of school funding establish two parallel systems of education - one secular, one religious, both funded entirely by the taxpayer? The Religion and Ethics Report looks at the impact of the Gonski review on religious schools.

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CathBlog - Old Catholic anti-semitic attitudes die hard

The universal appeal of Mary, the mother of Jesus, can obscure her Jewishness. Traces of anti-semitism remain even in those with a fervent devotion to Mary, who can still assert that 'the Jews killed Jesus’ and let the odd racial slur slip out as a 'joke', writes Teresa Pirola.