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 Monday 4 August 2008
One of the themes Pope Benedict XVI returns to again and again is
marriage and the family. As the popularity of divorce continues and
families are subjected to ever new trials, the Pope knows that forming
and maintaining a Christian marriage in the 21st century is no easy
task.
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 Monday 4 August 2008
Behind the headlines about tough words from Roman Catholic observers at
the Anglican Communion's Lambeth Conference there also was straight
talk about the blunt words only real friends could say.
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 Monday 4 August 2008
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Philip
Wilson, yesterday warmly congratulated Monsignor Jude Thaddeus Okolo,
counsellor at Canberra’s Apostolic Nunciature in Canberra, on his
appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to Chad and the Central African
Republic.
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 Monday 4 August 2008
Pope Benedict XVI will be praying this August that all may be more aware of the gift of creation.
The Apostleship of Prayer announced the general intention chosen by the
Pope, "That the human family may know how to respect God's design for
the world and thus become ever more aware of the great gift of God
which Creation represents for us."
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 Friday 1 August 2008
Professor Celia Hammond is to be inaugurated as the third Vice
Chancellor of The University of Notre Dame Australia on Monday 4
August, 2008.
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Friday 1 August 2008
The Catholic Church’s National Committee for Professional Standards
today welcomed Pope Benedict XVI’s recent apology to victims of abuse
by Church personnel as an important step in the ongoing process of
healing the deep wounds inflicted by such abuse.
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 Thursday 31 July 2008
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is proposing Friday as a national
day of prayer and fasting in the wake of the desecration of the
Eucharist by a Minnesota professor.
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 Thursday 31 July 2008
The Holy See is following with "serious attention" the request from the
Traditional Anglican Communion for "full, corporate, sacramental union"
with Rome.
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 Thursday 31 July 2008
The episcopal ordination of women will mean a "step backward" for
dialogue between Catholics and Anglicans, warned Cardinal Walter Kasper
at the Anglican Communion's Lambeth Conference.
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 Wednesday 30 July 2008
The Federal Government’s
announcement yesterday of a new policy to restrict the use of mandatory
detention for asylum seekers was a welcome move to a more humane system
of testing protection claims, the Catholic Church said today.
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 Wednesday 30 July 2008
Yesterday morning the Minister for
Immigration Chris Evans announced a comprehensive set of reforms to
Australia's system of accepting asylum seekers. Central to these
reforms is the limitation of mandatory detention to the management of
health, identity and security checks, people who have not complied with
visa conditions and those who represent a risk to the community.
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 Wednesday 30 July 2008
The archbishop of Westminster says he is not skeptical about the
ecumenical dialogue going on between the Anglican Communion and the
Catholic Church.
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Tuesday 29 July 2008
The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments approved
the first section of the new English translation of the Roman Missal.
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 Tuesday 29 July 2008
By Jesús Colina
Twenty-five doctors are appealing to Italian courts for the life of a
37-year-old woman who has come to be known as Italy's Terri Schiavo.
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 Tuesday 29 July 2008
Because Pope John Paul II
understood just how important a role sports play in our culture, he
addressed the topic in some 120 addresses.
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 Monday 28 July 2008
By Father John Flynn, LC
In a message to World Youth Day pilgrims, published as Benedict XVI
arrived in Sydney, Australia, the Pontiff quoted a saying attributed to
St. Augustine: “If you wish to remain young, seek Christ.”
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Monday 28 July 2008
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop
Philip Wilson today confirmed that the Bishops and Religious Leaders
remain firmly committed to providing appropriate clinical services to
priests, religious and Church personnel in need of psychological
treatment.
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 Friday 25 July 2008
On Sunday, 7 September 2008, the Knights of the Southern Cross (KSC)
will launch their 2nd National Prayer Crusade for Vocations.
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 Friday 25 July 2008
On Saturday, 26 July 2008, Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of
Khartoum, Sudan, will officially bless the new Sudanese Catholic
Community Centre at All Saints Parish Hall, 105 King William Street,
Fitzroy.
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 Thursday 24 July 2008
At Holy Cross Catholic Primary
School, New Gisborne, we operate Making Jesus Real (MJR), a social
skills, values and attitudes program based on the teachings of Our
Lord, Jesus Christ. It is based on four pillars: Welcoming,
Encouraging, Saying sorry, and Thanking people – WEST.
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