 Thursday 30 October 2008
Caritas is mobilising to provide emergency assistance and relief to the
thousands of people in the Ziarat district of Baluchistan, near the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border who have been devastated by a 6.4 magnitude
earthquake.
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 Thursday 30 October 2008
Secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Fr Brian
Lucas, this week participated in the Senate Standing Committee on
Economics’ roundtable discussion on the Inquiry into Disclosure Regimes
for Charities and Not-For-Profit Organisations.
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Tuesday 28 October 2008
Canadian priest Fr Tom Rosica, who played a key role in
transforming the spiritual fruits of Toronto’s World Youth Day into
ongoing legacies, will be the special guest at the national Youth
Leaders Gathering to be held in Sydney next month.
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 Tuesday 28 October 2008
A Vatican official is advocating a new "logic" for an economy
and a financial system that have forgotten that the good of man and
mankind should be the primary focus.
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 Tuesday 28 October 2008
The work sessions of the world Synod of Bishops on the Word of God
concluded at midday Saturday, with the approval of 55 propositions that
the synodal assembly presented to Pope Benedict XVI.
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 Monday 27 October 2008
Following Mass in St Peter’s Basilica that concluded the Bishops’
Synod, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday defended Christians in Iraq and
India who are “victims of intolerance and violence.”
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 Monday 27 October 2008
Bishop Antonio Menegazzo of El Obeid, Sudan has spoken out about the damage being done to the country by its civil war and about
the challenges facing the Christian minority that lives amidst growing
violence. He called on international organizations to help find
solutions to the 20 year-old conflict.
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 Monday 27 October 2008
In what one pro-life leader called a "deadly day in the history of
Britain", the House of Commons on Wednesday approved legislation
allowing scientists to create animal-human hybrids for medical
research.
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Friday 24 October 2008
At a global forum next week on migration, Caritas will be urging
nations to support the Millennium Development Goals, so that migration
can become an option, not a necessity.
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 Thursday 23 October 2008
Mary Wright, former leader IBVM Loreto Sisters worldwide, heads
to Rome this week after accepting an invitation from the Vatican to
join the team of canon lawyers in the Congregation for Institutes of
Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
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 Thursday 23 October 2008
A Canadian priest, Fr Frank Leo, has been appointed as secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Australia.
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Thursday 23 October 2008
The secret of Pope Benedict XVI's theology is not just in his
extraordinary knowledge, but in the fact that he lives what he
believes, says the bishop in charge of the publication of his "Complete
Works."
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Wednesday 22 October 2008
In the 20th general
congregation of the world Synod of Bishops on the Word of God,
celebrated yesterday, 53 proposals were presented to the assembly for
analysis.
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 Wednesday 22 October 2008
Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul have dwindled to as few as 500
after a wave of persecution came close to snuffing out one of the
oldest Church communities in the world.
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 Monday 20 October 2008
By Archbishop Philip Wilson
No doubt there are many secularists who are cheering to hear that their
eight cents a day will no longer be going into funding Radio National’s
The Religion Report. Indeed, there might also be a good number of
people of faith who are of the same opinion. It certainly wasn’t
everybody’s cup of tea when it came to religious programming. But the
ABC’s decision to axe this program, along with other specialist RN
programs, should give us pause to consider the state of reporting on
matters of religion and faith in Australia today.
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 Friday 17 October 2008
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in
Need is sending emergency aid to help thousands of Iraqi Christian
fleeing their ancient city in fear of their lives.
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 Thursday 16 October 2008
Melbourne’s western suburbs will receive a million dollar boost for
palliative care thanks to a State Government grant to Mercy Health.
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Thursday 16 October 2008
By Jack de Groot, Caritas Australia
The global financial crisis has preoccupied all of the media and probably much of our own thinking over the last few weeks.
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 Thursday 16 October 2008
A leading Iraqi bishop has warned that measures to tighten security in
Mosul may have come too late to save one of the country’s oldest
Christian communities beset by a wave of violence and intimidation.
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 Thursday 16 October 2008
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul
II, the late Pope's longtime secretary prayed the Pope would be made a
saint in his lifetime.
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