News - National
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16-Jul-2010
Caritas Australia says this year's Project Compassion has raised nearly $9.4 million, making it the most successful in over 40 years since the annual Lenten campaign was launched.
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15-Jul-2010
Australia's first saint, Mary Mackillop, is being honoured with a pop song and a commemorative dessert.
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15-Jul-2010
The Government's health reform plan has ignored the needs of Australia's most vulnerable, Catholic Health Australia said in releasing its 2010 Federal Election Platform.
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15-Jul-2010
The Bishop of Townsville, Michael Putney, has been elected to lead the National Council of Churches in Australia for the next three years.
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15-Jul-2010
The Bishops Commission for Catholic Education is seeking commitment from the government that a re-elected ALP govermnent would maintain funding in real terms for Catholic schools.
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14-Jul-2010
The inaugural Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention will take place from October 1-3 in Melbourne.
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13-Jul-2010
There needs to be stronger, more compassionate political leadership over asylum seekers, says the Catholic Religious Order, who claim the recent debate has not reflected well on Australia.
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12-Jul-2010
The canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillop will be telecast live both on Australian television and streamed on the web from St Peter's Square in Rome.
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12-Jul-2010
The Catholic Women's League Australia has denounced the latest trend of rosaries being used as a fashion statement.
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09-Jul-2010
Catholic Health Australia says private hospitals could be treating public patients "this calendar year" instead of waiting till July 2012, the date named by Health Minister Nicola Roxon.
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15-Jul-2010
The Melbourne Archdiocese says it will adjust future letters sent to sexual abuse victims about legal settlements after being informed that the original contained mistakes.
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12-Jul-2010
Archbishop Denis Hart's apology to the victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests went further than any which had come before it. In his pastoral letter he said he felt a sense of desolation and betrayal at the criminal offences committed by men who had taken vows before their God.
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16-Jul-2010
Maitland Newcastle Diocese children's ministries director John Donnelly says a lack of teachers for special religious education in state schools presents a real challenge to its survival.
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14-Jul-2010
A new online Catholic radio station called Cradio has been launched in Sydney.
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14-Jul-2010
A coalition of seven evangelical and pentecostal churches has struck a deal with the NSW Department of Education to fund construction of a classroom for scripture lessons at a public high school.
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13-Jul-2010
NSW Vinnies workers yesterday woke up to the news that their board had been stood down amid allegations of bullying of staff and the "over-corporatisation" of the grassroots organisation.
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13-Jul-2010
NSW police are investigating new claims of sexual abuse against a Sydney priest who had separate complaints of sexual molestation upheld by an internal church investigation last year.
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12-Jul-2010
The NSW State Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul has been placed under temporary administration of the National Council.
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09-Jul-2010
Ben Hur: The Stadium Spectacular, a massive production of the classical story, will be playing in Sydney this October, with a fundraiser to be held each of the two nights for the construction of the Mary MacKillop College in southern Sudan.
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12-Jul-2010
Toowoomba's Bishop William Morris has formally admitted legal liability for the rape and abuse of girls at a Toowoomba primary school.
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News - International
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12-Jul-2010
Pope Benedict has announced that Italian Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, an expert in church law who specializes in religious institutes, will serve as the papal delegate to the Legionaries of Christ.
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13-Jul-2010
The University of Illinois in the US has fired a Catholicism lecturer who was accused of engaging in hate speech when he stated that the Church teaches that homosexual sex is morally wrong.
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16-Jul-2010
Vatican Radio has dismissed reports claiming that new medical research shows electromagnetic radiation from the station's broadcasting towers is leading to an increased risk of cancer.
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14-Jul-2010
Rioting in Northern Ireland on the biggest day of a Protestant march early this week has left three police officers shot and many others injured.
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14-Jul-2010
Pope Benedict's busy schedule on his trip to Britain in September will prevent him meeting Prince Charles. But a spokesman for the Prince of Wales denies that he has been snubbed.
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14-Jul-2010
A leading Spanish archbishop says there is no obligation on the public to obey the country's new law on abortion because a right to "kill an innocent human being" does not exist.
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13-Jul-2010
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says it will be "desperately difficult" to keep the Church of England unified in light of a schismatic vote on women bishops.
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13-Jul-2010
The Vatican has reported its third consecutive financial loss, with a $5.9 million (4.1million euros) deficit in 2009.
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15-Jul-2010
Thousands of Argentines have marched outside the national Congress in protest against a gay marriage bill already approved by the country's lower chamber.
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09-Jul-2010
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, and other religious leaders, have raised concerns to South African President Jacob Zuma about xenophobic attacks after the World Cup.
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Regulars
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16-Jul-2010
Immigration from Eastern Europe and Asia is driving a resurgence in Catholicism in Scandinavia.
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15-Jul-2010
The largest Anglo-Catholic group in the Church of England is expecting an exodus of thousands of Anglicans to Catholicism after a decision to ordain women as bishops without sufficient concessions to traditionalists.
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14-Jul-2010
Professor Desmond Cahill has a passion for religious and cultural diversity. His academic career started after another ended, with the former Catholic priest choosing his wife and a family over the priesthood.
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13-Jul-2010
Raymond Arroyo is America's top Catholic television anchor man. He can get any interview he wants, from the Pope (in English) to George W Bush or Mel Gibson.
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12-Jul-2010
Catholics in Egypt are seizing a rare opportunity to build a church in a country where permission normally takes up to 30 years and requires the signature of the president himself.
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16-Jul-2010
After a week of public debate about the poor and needy, both overseas and locally, St Vincent de Paul reminds us of the humanitarian support and social justice available to those who need it.
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15-Jul-2010
Peacewise is a cross-denominational Christian mediation website which believes that biblical peacemaking is the most practical and profound approach to dealing with conflict available to people.
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14-Jul-2010
It's six months since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. Caritas has been at the forefront of relief efforts and its website has a comprehensive update on how the country and people are picking up the pieces.
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13-Jul-2010
The ABC has launched its new Religion and Ethics portal. The new site features commentary and expert analysis on the great traditions of world religions, as well as the way they continue to influence ethical and political issues today.
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12-Jul-2010
The Faith and Ecology Network is an interfaith network whose aims are to share mutual appreciation of religious traditions regarding ecology, and to discern and foster religious reasons for advocacy about care for the earth.
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14-Jul-2010
Tom Cruise is back again as action hero in this comedy drama. The film is short on character development and logical plot line, and it really doesn't matter. This is essentially a fun piece for fast action.
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13-Jul-2010
It is a generation since the original Karate Kidwas released. The 12-year-olds of 1984 are now asked to make up their minds as to whether their now 12-year-old kids should see this one or not.
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12-Jul-2010
This French, subtitled film is an absorbing espionage thriller. Set in Russia in 1981, it sees a high-ranking KGB officer needing someone to act as a contact with the West to help him bring change to the Soviet Union regime.
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16-Jul-2010
This second episode in a series on Christianity reveals how it became the world's largest religion despite, rather than because of, Western missionary zeal.
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15-Jul-2010
In 2009 a film was released about the life of the Singing Nun (pictured). With its release on DVD, the film's Belgian producer discusses the life and music of the woman who changed the face of popular music.
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16-Jul-2010
The Pope's encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, is an admirable engagement with economics. There is a reticence lacking in many church statements to pronounce on complex matters of economic theory and empirical evidence, writes Paul Oslington.
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15-Jul-2010
Newspapers routinely refer to any Roman Catholic in the news as 'a devout Catholic'. They would not say that of Mel Gibson at the moment, however. Mad Mel is again in hot water for racism. This time it is the blacks.
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14-Jul-2010
Today in the Catholic Church almost any disagreement to almost any degree with almost any church leader on almost any topic is seen as dissent, writes Rev James Martin in the Huffington Post.
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13-Jul-2010
It's a sad comment on today's values that Cardinal Newman's love for another man has been interpreted as homosexual, writes Jack Valero in The Guardian.
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12-Jul-2010
Is it just a strange coincidence that on the date of the release of Twilight: Eclipse, the pope announced the creation of a new pontifical council to address what he calls the 'eclipse of God'? writes Jamie Manson.
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