Port Lincoln's Adam Crouch was among the readers at Pope Benedict's Passion Sunday Mass during which the pontiff urged young people to refuse violence, bribes and to live with "pure hearts" in a service which also marked World Youth
A 17-year-old former Perth Catholic schoolboy is free after nearly a year in prison awaiting trial on rape charges of which he was acquitted after it emerged that his accuser had lied about her sex life. Perth Now reports that Patrick Waring, then a
Woolmer farewelled at Lahore cathedral service
02-Apr-2007
Muslims joined Christians at a Sacred Heart Cathedral service led by Lahore Catholic Archbishop Lawrence Saldhanha for former Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, as new doubts emerge as to whether he was murdered or died in a tragic accident. The
Jesus not really crucified, Libya's Gaddafi says
02-Apr-2007
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has told a mass prayer meeting for Muslims in Niger that Jesus was not really nailed to the cross but that another man who resembled him was crucified in his place. "It is not correct to say that,"
Breaking News: Melbourne church on fire
02-Apr-2007
Firefighters are battling a huge fire that has broken out this morning in the roof of St Joseph's Church, Collingwood in inner Melbourne. The Age reports that up to 40 firefighters are battling the huge blaze. The alarm was raised shortly after 6am
An uneasy marriage of necessity
02-Apr-2007
Federal Minister Tony Abbott and others with simplistic pictures of the role of religion in public life see politics as an arena in which religion battles "secularism", but this is a dangerous muddle. An anti-religious ideology of secularism
The carved, wooden Stations of the Cross in Christ the Priest Church in Blackman's Bay, Tasmania have a long story to tell. It begins with Karoly Komaromy, a Polish migrant who arrived in Australia with his family after the World War II. Originals of a
Solomons tsunami response under way
02-Apr-2007
Caritas agencies in the Pacific have pledged immediate relief assistance in the wake of yesterday's earthquake and tsunami which devastated areas in the remote Solomon Islands Western Province with thousands still feared missing. Caritas Australia put
Pointing to the need to keep abreast of "best practices" in supporting development, Caritas Australia has rejected accusations that Indigenous input would be weakened under new procedures but apologised for hurt caused by its decision to axe a
Billings method pioneer dead at 89
02-Apr-2007
Natural family pioneer and co-inventor of the method that bears his name, Dr John Billings, died in Melbourne yesterday following a short illness. The Herald-Sun reports that Dr Billings with his wife Dr Evelyn Billings pioneered the Billings
Malaysia's Catholic bishops have slammed a ruling by the country's Court of Appeal that a non-Muslim woman had to seek recourse through Shariah courts as a "form of religious oppression and an affront to human dignity". The bishops made
In a shift from their earlier reluctance to directly criticise the Mugabe government, Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have castigated the country's leaders as "racist, corrupt and lawless". The deep crisis afflicting Zimbabwe can be turned into
Resisting the upgrade mentality
02-Apr-2007
According to the well-known technology website, CNET, $1.05 billion was spent on accessories for the iPod last year - and that excludes internet sales. One-man-and-dog operations have grown exponentially on the back of this expansion. By changing the
The meaning of the Cross
02-Apr-2007
Among all the religious symbols in the world none is more universal than the cross. You see crosses everywhere. Not everyone can explain what the cross means or why they choose to wear one, but most everyone has an inchoate sense that it is a symbol,
Huge devastation in Solomons
02-Apr-2007
Infection as well as food and water shortages are among the major concerns facing relief agencies working in the tsunami-devastated Solomon Islands, Caritas says. Aid workers are warning of a humanitarian crisis in the earthquake
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of John Paul II's death, retiring Rome Cardinal Camillo Ruini said that the late pontiff's intense relationship with God was profound and in a certain sense "he had already seen the
Bishops launch national info tech committee
02-Apr-2007
The Australian bishops are seeking to develop through a new information and communications technology committee a "single point of entry" for people wanting to deal with Church agencies and groups, committee chair Greg Whitby
Picking up the call of Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference has accused the Mugabe regime of oppressing its own people but says dialogue is still possible. CISA reports that the Catholic bishops of southern
Newly discovered documents from the archives of the former East German secret service, the Stasi, show that wartime Pope Pius XII was considered an enemy of Hitler's Third Reich, not a collaborator. Zenit reports that that the documents show that
Parramatta wall weeps "miracle" oil
02-Apr-2007
Thousands of people have started to flock to the western Sydney home of a Catholic couple where oil and ash have started to appear on the walls of the bedroom of their late son who was killed in a car crash last year. The Daily Telegraph quotes
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