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 Monday 1 September 2008
By Catherine Smibert
Now that the physical sites and structures of Sydney's World
Youth Day have been dismantled, other, more spiritual structures, are
going up.
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 Thursday 28 August 208
Iraq has a problem beside suicide bombings and political instability,
and it receives too little media attention, affirmed an archbishop in
Baghdad: There is a growing wave of kidnappings.
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 Thursday 28 August 2008
With the approach of Schoolies Week
and end-of-year celebrations over 17,000 Catholic Year 12 students
across Australia are about to receive the 2008 edition of The Road
Ahead, a special publication dealing with end-of-year issues from a
Catholic perspective.
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 Thursday 28 August 2008
Dr Chris Hayes, who is currently Headmaster of St. Edmund’s College,
Canberra, has been appointed Principal of Xavier College in Kew.
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 Wednesday 27 August 2008
Australian philosopher, Professor Garrett Cullity, has tackled
an age-old question in ethics and developed a new and compelling
answer.
His book The Moral Demands of Affluence asks: ‘To what extent
are we morally obliged to help those in need?'. It has won him the
$10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU National) Eureka Prize for
Ethics.
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 Tuesday 26 August 2008
Shortly before the spectacular closing ceremonies of the Olympics, Chinese authorities arrested another bishop.
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 Tuesday 26 August 2008
If a humanitarian corridor is opened into South Ossetia, as Pope
Benedict XVI is urging, the scope of the emergency there might be
revealed to be larger than expected, said the nuncio in Georgia.
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 Monday 25 August 2008
Five weeks after it hosted Australia’s largest gathering, Randwick
Racecourse has been formally returned to the racing industry by World
Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) and the NSW Government.
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 Friday 22 August 2008
Since 1976, St Vincent De Paul
Aged Care & Community Services (ACCS) Quin House has helped
thousands of men overcome this scourge, by providing accommodation and
drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in a caring and understanding
environment.
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 Friday 22 August 2008
As our society ages, parish priests and parish workers are
increasingly being called upon to minister to people with varying
stages of dementia. For some, this can be a confronting experience. For
others, rewarding and uplifting.
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 Friday 22 August 2008
Changes in political power in Pakistan will not alter the situation of Christians in the country, according to a senior priest.
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Friday 22 August 2008
Though a Vatican spokesman says consideration of a papal visit to China
is "premature," he nevertheless called an invitation extended to
Benedict XVI by Beijing's bishop "encouraging."
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 Thursday 21 August 2008
Exactly one month has passed since Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the
World Youth Day Mass at Randwick racecourse. To mark the occasion, Dear
Young People, a collection of all of the sermons and addresses given by
Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Australia, was published in
Sydney yesterday.
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 Wednesday 20 August 2008
Fertility education should be right up there with pap smears and breast
scans as one of the “must dos” for good sexual and reproductive
healthcare, Cheryl Curnow of the Natural Family Planning Program said
today.
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 Wednesday 20 August 2008
A note from the Vatican has
reiterated a directive that the name of God revealed in the
tetragrammaton YHWH is not to be pronounced in Catholic liturgy.
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 Tuesday 19 August 2008
A leading Sri Lankan Bishop has demanded increased government help for
those displaced by the fighting in the north of the country.
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 Tuesday 19 August 2008
A 37-year-old Carmelite priest was tortured and killed on Saturday night
as he traveled to the site where he was to celebrate Sunday Mass.
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Monday 18 August 2008
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need is backing plans to increase seminarians’ concern for the poor in Haiti. The Bishop’s Conference of Haiti has decided seminarians will undertake
a year of pastoral work before beginning their theological training –
and Aid to the Church in Need has promised to help fund the programme.
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 Monday 18 August 2008
The Vatican Library's makeover will include
construction of a fireproof bunker for manuscripts and a
climate-controlled room for precious papyrus fragments, the head of the
library said.
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Friday 15 August 2008
The project ‘Pilgrims’
Progress 2008’ is a research project being conducted at Australian
Catholic University, with the support of World Youth Day
Administration, focussing on the pilgrims who attended World Youth Day
in Sydney in July.
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