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 Monday 5 January 2009
Pope Benedict XVI is praying for families this month, and particularly that they become founts for the transmission of the faith. |
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 Monday 5 January 2009
The Archbishop of Sydney, the host city for World Youth Day 2008, says the event brought conversions and vocations to the priesthood. Cardinal George Pell affirmed this to the Italian bishops' SIR news agency, saying that "we are registering an increase in conversions [to Catholicism.]"
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 Friday 19 December 2008
ABC TV1 will broadcast the annual Festival of Readings and Carols (Pre-Recorded)from St Patrick's Cathedral at 7.30pm Christmas Eve.
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 Friday 19 December 2008
A young father with 15 years experience in youth ministry around Australia has been appointed to take up the new position as Senior Youth Ministry Projects Officer with the Bishops Commission for Pastoral Life. |
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 Friday 19 December 2008
At his weekly General
Audience in the Paul VI Hall on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI
contemplated the fulfillment of the ancient prophecies in the coming of
the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary in the stable of Bethlehem and
reminded his audience to contemplate the mercy of God “who has come to
meet humanity.”
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 Friday 19 December 2008
Pope Benedict XVI says he wants the life of the Church, and
particularly of the Holy See, to be present in audio, text and video on
the Internet.
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Friday 19 December 2008
A country's authentic
development must include the integral, moral, intellectual and cultural
advancement of its members, which the Church wishes to aid, says Pope
Benedict XVI.
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 Thursday 18 December 2008
Defense of human rights must be based in an objective knowledge of
human nature, lest terminology be reinterpreted at the service of
private desires or ideologies, says a Holy See representative.
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 Thursday 18 December 2008
An Italian government official intervened to stop a hospital from
withholding nutrition and hydration from a woman who has been in a
persistent vegetative state for 16 years.
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 Wednesday 17 December 2008
The prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
Cardinal Francis Arinze, has written a new book entitled, “Letter to a
Young Priest,” in which he presents a way of life for priests to assist
them in living out obedience, chastity and poverty.
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 Wednesday 17 December 2008
An icon of Mary entrusted to youth by Pope John Paul II will be in
Australia for the coming year. One young Australian says having the
image is like St John receiving Our Lady at the cross.
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 Wednesday 17 December 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is
inviting youth to celebrate the next two World Youth Days at the
diocesan level, leading up to a culmination in the 2011 Madrid event.
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 Tuesday 16 December 2008
Catholic hospital and aged care services face a bill of $10
million in year one of the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction
Scheme, and the total cost of the carbon trading scheme to the health
and aged sector in Australia could top $100 million in the first year
alone.
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Tuesday 16 December 2008
There have been significant
steps forward in dialogue with the Orthodox regarding the relationship
between papal primacy and the synodality of the Church, says Pope
Benedict XVI.
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 Tuesday 16 December 2008
Christian, Jewish and
Muslim religious leaders joined together to endorse a letter to
president-elect Barack Obama, urging him to use US leadership to
promote Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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 Monday 15 December 2008
Australia risked being left behind on internet safety if the
community failed to back the federal government’s plan for Internet
Service Provider (ISP) filtering, a Catholic Bishop said yesterday.
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 Monday 15 December 2008
The National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Mr Syd
Tutton, has rejected claims that charities are being left unsupported.
"At a time of severe economic downturn," he said on Saturday, "I am
more grateful than ever for the incredible generosity of Australians.
I know that people are giving what they can and I think that this is
the spirit that will pull us through as a nation."
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 Monday 15 December 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, through the work of several Vatican congregations,
has weighed-in on the ethical nature of various fertility treatments,
experiments with stem cells, human cloning and the creation of hybrid
embryos.
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 Monday 15 December 2008
Far from discouraging scientific research, the Church is
expressing its hope that many Christians dedicate themselves to
biomedicine and that the results of such research can also be used to
benefit the poor. This is one of the affirmations in an 8 September document released
Friday by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and titled
"Dignitas Personae."
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Monday 15 December 2008
News today that universities are struggling to attract student
nurses is further evidence that Australia urgently needs a national
health workforce commission, Catholic Health Australia (CHA) chief
executive Martin Laverty said.
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