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 Friday 21 November 2008
St Thérèse wrote that she
wanted to be a missionary on every continent simultaneously and reach
the most remote islands -- now her dream has extended to space flight.
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 Friday 21 November 2008
A June operation at a Spanish hospital has resulted in the first successful trachea transplant operation using adult stem cells.
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 Friday 21 November 2008
The president of the
Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, said this
week that Italy’s “Terri Schiavo,” Eluana Englaro, “has been condemned
to die of hunger and thirst because she has been living in a vegetative
state for many years. Let us hope that at the last minute this decision
will be reconsidered and ideology will not completely blind
consciences.”
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 Friday 21 November 2008
The Holy See is decrying a world situation in which it is easier to get a weapon than to obtain food, shelter and an education.
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 Friday 21 November 2008
A bishop has given strong backing to a movie made by two Catholic priests which opens a celebrated film event in India.
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 Friday 21 November 2008
The Church in Japan is
anticipating the beatification of 188 of its martyrs next week as an
event that is expected to require 2,500 volunteers and priests from all
over the nation to offer the sacraments.
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 Thursday 20 November 2008
The president emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Bishop Elio
Sgreccia, criticised the practice of embryo selection this week and
called it a “legitimisation of an abuse,” similar to euthanasia, and
said the Church would continue to use “all peaceful means” to “educate
society” to keep politicians from assuming the right to decide on
matters of life and death.
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 Thursday 20 November 2008
The decline in respect for human life has had “catastrophic effects” on
the unity and integrity of the United States, which are evidenced by
the presidential election, says a Vatican official.
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 Thursday 20 November 2008
The Vatican opened a third bookstore Tuesday, with a ceremony presided over by the Pope's secretary of state.
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 Tuesday 18 November 2008
The Bishops’ Conference of
Congo issued a dramatic and urgent message calling for an end to the
violence in the country and urging the international community to
intervene to stop the “silent genocide” that is afflicting the nation,
especially in the northern region of Kivu.
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Tuesday 18 November 2008
Italian associations are making
last-minute appeals for the life of Eluana Englaro, after Italy's
Supreme Court ruled Thursday that her father's wish would be granted
and her feeding tube will be removed.
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 Friday 14 November 2008
Denouncing what they called a "master plan" to wipe out Christianity,
the bishops of India’s troubled Orissa region have written a letter to
state’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik concerning the persecution of
Christians at the hands of Hindu extremists.
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 Friday 14 November 2008
Two women religious were kidnapped in Kenya by a group of armed men Monday evening. Neither the identity nor the motive of the assailants is known.
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 Thursday 13 November 2008
Fr Patrick O’Regan has been elected by the Diocesan Consultors of
Bathurst as Administrator of the Diocese, following the Pope’s
acceptance of Bishop Patrick Dougherty’s resignation, having reached
retirement age.
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 Thursday 13 November 2008
Pope Benedict XVI wants a photo of
your family to add to a massive mosaic of families from all over the
world as part of the celebrations for the Sixth World Meeting of
Families to be held in Mexico City in January 2009.
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 Thursday 13 November 2008
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, the President of the Pontifical
Council of Health Care, has responded to reports that President-elect
Obama's future administration will reverse a federal ban on human
embryonic stem cell research funding. Saying that the stem cells
produced by the destruction of embryos "serve no purpose," he argued
that embryonic stem cell research has not resulted in any significant
cures so far and was "good for nothing."
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Thursday 13 November 2008
Speaking to thousands of
the faithful gathered in the city of Bharananganam in India, the
prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo
Sandri, called for an end to the anti-Christian violence, “as a sign of
authentic respect for the religious freedom of all the sons and
daughters of India.”
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 Thursday 13 November 2008
Seven MPs have disowned a Senate submission lodged in their name which
calls for Medicare funding of abortion for disabled babies because
looking after disabled people costs too much.
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 Monday 10 November 2008
An unpublished book written
by Father Peter Dresser, Parish Priest of Coonamble in the Diocese of
Bathurst, has been receiving a certain distribution and publicity.
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 Monday 10 November 2008
Caritas in Goma is carrying out assessments on the numbers of victims
of sexual violence in the current unrest in eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo.
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