While equal pay for equal work is accepted as a principle of labour policy, United Nations Holy See envoy Archbishop Celestino Migliore says that women in the workplace "are still too often overlooked or undervalued". In his remarks to the
Catholic Health backs Govt aged care package
12-Feb-2007
A Howard Government proposed $1.5 billion package of assistance for aged care will deliver high care services more equitably and take financial pressure off providers, according to Catholic Health Australia head, Francis Sullivan. The package
Spies bedevil Peruvian environmental priest
12-Feb-2007
A Peruvian security firm has launched a campaign of spying and intimidation against environmental activists and priests including one who was dubbed "the devil", according to documents revealed by a local newspaper. Using the codename
A book by an Italian-Israeli historian who claims there is a factual basis for medieval allegations of ritual murder of Christians has drawn fire from Jewish and Catholic scholars. The just published book by Ariel Toaff, who is also son of Elio
Warning that witchcraft is real and is destroying the Catholic Church in Africa, scholars from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa say that many African priests fear witchcraft or are ignorant of their power to confront the devil. The Catholic
Sydney priest seeks to honour Aust-US friendship
12-Feb-2007
Sydney priest Fr Paul Hilder is looking for the crest of a World War II US naval destroyer that saved the lives of 627 Australian sailors for display in a church honouring friendship between the US and Australia. Catholic News Service reports that Fr
A call to defend priestly celibacy
12-Feb-2007
Guided only by the secular press over the last 30 years, many young men could have come to believe that priests in general are unhappy in their vocation and resentful of their celibacy. We priests need to show by word and example that we are in fact
Restoring the Latin Mass a delicate act
12-Feb-2007
The Pope has long-held and passionate convictions about liturgy, sketched in many of his books. In his understanding, the rites, both of East and West, belong first of all to the whole Church. The different families of rites structure the ways in which
Praising volunteering as a "school of life", Pope Benedict has warned against allowing the experience to degenerate into "simple activism". Catholic News Agency reports that Pope Benedict made his comments in an address to
Portugal to legalise early abortion
12-Feb-2007
The Portuguese government says it will go ahead with plans to legalise abortions in the predominantly Catholic country even though a weekend referendum on the issue failed to attract the quorum required for a binding vote. The Age reports that
Aust needs strong non-profit sector, priest says
12-Feb-2007
A capable non-profit "third sector" is necessary if Australia is to achieve economic resilience, social inclusion and stronger, more confident communities, according to Jesuit Fr Michael Kelly. According to an announcement from the
The parish priest of St Florentina on Rapu Rapu island in the central Philippines has condemned the re-opening of an Australian-owned mine on the island after the government lifted a 15-month suspension of operations owing to earlier tailing
Canadian bishop attacks mobile porn
12-Feb-2007
Archbishop Raymond Roussin of Vancouver, Canada, will direct Catholic institutions to terminate their contracts with a mobile phone company which has introduced a service offering pornographic photos and videos available through its network. Catholic
At least 11 students at a Toronto Catholic school have been suspended for cyber-bullying after posting comments on the internet about the school's principal who had enforced a ban on electronic devices on the school campus. Toronto's City
Fundamentalism driving faithful away from Church
12-Feb-2007
Recent years have witnessed a growth in religious fundamentalism throughout the world. Regrettably similar trends are also taking roots in our own Church. The large majority of Catholics are liberal, thinking and practising their faith. Unfortunately
Long road to justice for Japan's WWII "comfort women" In 1942, Jan O'Herne's nightmare began. She was captured by the Japanese in Java and was forced into sexual slavery as a ''comfort woman'' for the soldiers. Mrs O'Herne never told her friends
Issuing a call for reconciliation between faith and science, the president of the Vatican's science and social science academies, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, has identified three key "areas of conflict" between the two domains. Catholic
Welcoming an agreement announced in Beijing yesterday for North Korea to wind down its nuclear program in exchange for fuel relief, Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk said the deal had "averted a catastrophe of unimaginable
Africa, Asia lead Church growth
12-Feb-2007
Africa and Asia now account for over 20 per cent of Catholics in the world, according to figures just released by the Holy See, while overall the Church is keeping pace with the rate of population growth around the world. The Catholic Information
Church organist guilty of mother manslaughter
12-Feb-2007
A Victorian jury yesterday found a church music director and Australian Catholic University student not guilty of bashing his obsessive mother to death with a hammer but guilty of manslaughter. The Age reports that Simon Alan Randall, 27, gasped,
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