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 Tuesday 8 July 2008
The bishop of Calgary has asked
the premier of Alberta to repeal a section of the territory's Human
Rights Act, citing that it has been used to discriminate against
Christians.
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 Monday 7 July 2008
Pope Benedict XVI joined his voice to the appeals of Church leaders who
are asking the members of the G8 to make good on promises to the poor.
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 Friday 4 July 2008
Emily Koch is in many ways a
typical 20 year old. She goes to university, she is the eldest of three
sisters, she has a boyfriend, she loves her parents and she has dreams
and aspirations like most of us. What makes her extraordinary is that
Emily has a dream to make the world a better place.
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 Friday 4 July 2008
Debate at the United Nations about the causes of the global food crisis
does no good if it does not lead to "immediate and effective action,"
the Holy See says.
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 Thursday 3 July 2008
Australian Catholic University (ACU National) Melbourne Campus (St.
Patrick’s) will host the historical studies conference Childhood
(Re)discovered this week. The conference aims to address issues about
childhood of interest to both historians and practitioners or
campaigners seeking to defend the rights of young adults and children.
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 Thursday 3 July 2008
Bishop Gerard Holohan, Chairman of the Bishops’ Commission for Catholic
Education, announced Tuesday the appointment of Dr William Robert
Griffiths to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the National
Catholic Education Commission.
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 Wednesday 2 July 2008
Archbishop Denis Hart
recently opened and blessed the new Billings LIFE Centre in a moving
ceremony. Noting the approaching 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s
Encyclical Letter on Human Life, 'Humanae Vitae', Archbishop Hart paid
tribute to: "…the remarkable leadership provided by Doctors John and
Evelyn Billings and their collaborators over so many years, in which
faithfulness to the Magisterium and a clear philosophical understanding
of the needs of couples is so well combined."
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 Wednesday 2 July 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is dedicating his message for the World Day of Peace to a theme lurking behind many conflicts: poverty.
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 Wednesday 2 July 2008
Pope Benedict XVI's missionary prayer intention for July is for the success of the World Youth Day in Sydney this month.
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 Wednesday 2 July 2008
A Salesian priest from India was killed Monday in Nepal when armed men
broke into his residence and detonated an explosive device.
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 Wednesday 2 July 2008
The general assembly of the Focolare movement is set to elect a
successor to founder Chiara Lubich. Lubich, who founded the movement in
1943, died in March. She led the movement for more than 60 years.
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 Monday 30 June 2008
Blessed Mary MacKillop’s heroic journey to Rome to meet Pope Pius IX
following her excommunication is the central event in a new play that
recounts the story of her saintly life. At the Centre of Light is on at
La Mama Theatre in Carlton later until 12 July.
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 Monday 30 June 2008
St Vincents & Mercy Private
last week announced plans for major upgrades to operating theatres,
equipment and technology at Vimy House Private Hospital in Kew,
following its recent acquisition of the site.
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 Monday 30 June 2008
Brother Joseph Neonbasu MGL, from Indonesia’s West Timor, took his
perpetual vows within the Missionaries of God’s Love (MGL) on Saturday
21 June 2008 at St Benedict Church, Narrabundah, Canberra. He is the
first to join the MGL from Indonesia, and the first religious brother
from overseas to reach the stage of final vows. He will be portrayed as
a pioneer from Indonesia in the vocation history of the MGL.
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 Monday 30 June 2008
Catholic parishes across Australia will be invited to take up the theme
'Celebrate the Living Spirit' in celebration of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island Sunday on Sunday 6 July.
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 Monday 30 June 2008
For the past 27 years, the
choir of St Francis Church, Melbourne has joined with the choir of St
Paul's Anglican Church, Geelong, to sing together in a show of
ecumenism.
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 Friday 27 June 2008
Jesus once told a parable about a Master who gave each of his
servants a gold coin saying, “See what you can earn with this while I
am away.” He then went on to tell how some of the servants had worked
hard at multiplying the money and gave him back good return, but one
servant buried the coin to keep it safe and it was of no use to anyone.
(Luke 19:11-27)
As part of the Leadership Program run at St.
Damian’s in Term 1 this year, our 5/6 students heard and discussed this
reading from Luke.
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 Friday 27 June 2008
The Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communication and the
Arts has failed to deliver the strong recommendations needed to address
the sexualisation of children, in its inquiry report tabled today.
The Committee’s recommendations don’t go far enough. The advertising industry needed a big shake up - it didn’t get it.
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Friday 27 June 2008
The death has occurred in Ireland of Fr Donal Paul Dempsey,
an Augustinian priest who served in eastern Australia for fifty-two
years from 1950 to 2002, the final twenty-six of those years in
Victoria in the parishes of South Yarra (Melbourne) and Kyabram
(Diocese of Sandhurst).
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 Friday 27 June 2008
Benedict XVI will confer the
pallium on 43 metropolitan archbishops in a traditional ceremony on the
feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the first day of the Pauline Jubilee Year.
The
pallium, worn by the Pope and archbishops, symbolizes the lost sheep
that is found again, carried on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, and
the Lamb crucified for the salvation of humanity. It also symbolizes,
in part, the Pope's concession of authority and communion to heads of
major local Churches.
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