Tuesday, 09 February 2010

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Brennan appointed advocate for disadvantaged, calls for rights charter 
 

Published: 09 February 2010

Father Frank Brennan has been appointed as "Catholic Advocate in Residence" for four social justice bodies in a move to to drive change on the health and welfare of disadvantaged Australians.
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Trading scheme will hit aged care costs, says Catholic Health 
 

Published: 09 February 2010

Services for pensioners in nursing homes could be squeezed without the right compensation package under the emissions trading scheme, Catholic Health Australia has warned.
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News - National 

Sydney Priest who faked cancer moved to Perth 
 

Published: 08 February 2010

The Sydney priest who lied about having cancer to raise money from his local flock has been moved to Perth. His spiritual adviser believes the priest was "repentant" and would not lie about anything so serious in future.
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News - National 

Calvary: 'real work begins now'


Published: 09 February 2010

Archbishop Mark Coleridge says the termination of negotiations to sell Calvary Public Hospital "means that in the new circumstances all must work together to ensure the best possible delivery of health care for the ACT community".
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News - International 

Idea for an ecumenical catechism: Vatican official


Published: 09 February 2010

A Vatican official has proposed a shared "ecumenical catechism" among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of Reformed churches, as a fruit of four decades of dialogue.
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News - International 

Vatican paper features new stem cells source study


Published: 09 February 2010

Research at a biogenetic centre in Milan that takes stem cells without destroying human embryos has been featured in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper.
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Abbott tells NSW Libs not to drop David Clarke


Published: 08 February 2010

Tony Abbott says the NSW Liberal Party could lose the next state election if it does not preselect David Clarke. He also says it is "one of the nastiest smears" to call Mr Clarke the leader of the party's religious right.  
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Jesuit teacher confesses abuse at German school


Published: 08 February 2010

A Jesuit teacher has confessed to sexually abusing boys at the top German school, Canisius College in Berlin, and has been suspended from the order. The confession follows sex abuse allegations against two other Jesuits.  
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News - International

Mexico inaugurates its first exorcism church

Published: 09 February 2010
Mexico's Catholic Church has inaugurated its first ever church dedicated to exorcisms.

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Opinion- Pell is Vatican's top "rumour magnet"

Cardinal George Pell is perhaps the best living example of a certain species of Vatican ecclesiastical life that we might designate as the “rumour magnet.”
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Feature - Caritas head has mixed feelings about Davos

The secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis has confessed to “mixed feelings” about the World Economic Forum’s outcomes, saying international institutions are underperforming on poverty eradication, security and many more.”
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Featured website - Vancouver Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics have never enjoyed the same publicity as the original, summer Games. But they still embody the same values, as Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged in his message earlier this month.
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Radio - The Global Ethic, on the Spirit of Things

Rachael Kohn talks with Priest, Professor and Prophet, Hans Kung, the dissident Swiss Catholic whose concept of a Global Ethic has ignited the imaginations of religious, business and political leaders around the world, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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