Wednesday, 07 January 2009

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Raped Indian nun identifies alleged attackers

Published: 06 January 2009

Twenty nine year old Indian nun, Sr Meena, has identified two of her alleged attackers during an identification parade, police say.
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No Malay for Malaysian Catholic paper

Published: 06 January 2009

Kuala Lumpur Archbishop Murphy Pakiam has accused Malaysian of acting in bad faith over its refusal to allow the publication of a Malay edition of the Catholic Herald pending the outcome of a court case on the use of the word "Allah".
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Change the system: Pope Benedict

Published: 06 January 2009

Pope Benedict has called for a "deep revision" of the world's "dominant development model", saying "the state of the planet's environment and above all the cultural and moral crisis" are even more urgent than the financial crisis.

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Vatican to drop automatic Italian laws

Published: 06 January 2009

The Vatican City State will no longer automatically adopt Italian laws because there are too many of them and they conflict too often with Catholic teaching.
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WYD led to conversions: Pell

Published: 05 January 2009

Australia is experiencing a rise in conversions and vocations in the wake of last year's World Youth Day, Sydney Cardinal George Pell says.
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Hong Kong Catholic hospital gives run around to dying patient

Published: 06 January 2009

Hong Kong's Caritas Medical Centre has admitted that it had blundered by refusing to send medics to help a dying patient on the doorstep of the hospital.
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Bathersby lists matters not addressed by St Mary's

Published: 05 January 2009

St Mary's, South Brisbane, is out of communion with the Church, Archbishop John Bathersby has told the parish, citing a list of problem issues, but will wait until the end of January before making a formal decision on the parish's future.
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Vic Attorney-General refused communion over abortion

Published: 05 January 2009

An extraordinary minister refused communion to Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls at a Christmas Mass service at St Monica's parish, Moonee Ponds before parish priest, Fr Peter Kenny, intervened and gave him communion.
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Feature Story

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Twenty church workers killed in 2008

Published: 06 January 2009

At least twenty church workers were killed in 2008, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced calling on Catholics to pray for those who have sacrificed their lives.

Opinion - Doing the right thing

A mature disciple doesn't calculate or make distinctions as to whether God is inside of a certain situation or not, whether a person seems worth it or not, whether a person is a Christian or not, or whether a person appears to be a good person or not, before reaching out in service. A mature disciple serves whoever is in need, independent of those considerations. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com

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Feature - Call to live simply

The idea of living in a simpler way may be viewed as an unwelcome novelty for some in the West, but it has always been promoted by the Church as a positive and life affirming choice since the days of the early Christian communities. The idea is not to make our lives into barren or deprived spaces but, on the contrary, to find a new and deeper sense of fullness in a return to what really makes us happy at a profound level. - Bishop John Rawsthorne, The Catholic Herald

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Featured Website - Churches for Middle East Peace

Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a United States based collection of Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic churches advocating for a region where two viable states, Israel and Palestine, live side-by-side within secure and recognised borders.

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Television - Compass: Pioneering City

This edition of Compass is the middle episode of a three part series looking at the radical religious thinkers and networks pioneering new ways of believing in the new millennium. Behind the clamour of fundamentalism, a quiet revolution is taking place.