Saturday, 22 November 2008

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Asylum seeker exposé draws huge response 
 

Published: 21 November 2008

An SBS television documentary featuring an Edmund Rice Centre exposé on the treatment of rejected asylum seekers has drawn a huge response, ERC director Phil Glendenning says.


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Pope prophesied financial collapse: Italian finance minister 
 

Published: 21 November 2008

Long before he became pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger predicted a crisis in the global financial system, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti says.
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News - International 

40 men gang raped Sr Meena 
 

Published: 21 November 2008

In her first public appearance since her ordeal, Orissa nun, Sr Meena, said she had been gang raped by forty men while police looked on.


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Israeli company supplies Vatican smart cams


Published: 21 November 2008

Israeli tech company ioimage has won a contract to supply the Vatican with smart cameras to be placed along a 60 kilometre perimeter around the city state.
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Cool opportunity for DLS schoolies


Published: 21 November 2008

Instead of Schoolies Week, students from Melbourne's De La Salle College have switched to a new program known as "Coolies" in which they will travel to India to work as labourers with poor communities.
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ACU unveils MacKillop sculpture


Published: 20 November 2008

Sydney Cardinal George Pell has unveiled and blessed a specially commissioned sculpture of Blessed Mary MacKillop at the Australian Catholic University North Sydney campus.
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Confirmation "the sacrament of farewell": Bunbury bishop

Published: 20 November 2008
Saying that Confirmation has practically become a "Sacrament of Farewell", Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan has called for a radical reconsideration of the age and practice relating to its conferral.  
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Priests arrested over Indian nun murder

Published: 20 November 2008
Citing "fresh and concrete evidence", Indian detectives have arrested two priests and a nun over the 1992 murder in Kerala of 21 year old Sr Abhaya.  
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News - International

Copernicus DNA identified

Published: 21 November 2008
Polish archaeologists have identified the remains of 16th century astronomer and priest, Nicolas Copernicus, who created shockwaves with his theory that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe.

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Opinion - Taking the stuff out of materialism

Change brings opportunity. The rise of consumer capitalism is no longer the unstoppable force which it appeared to be only a few months ago. The corruption of American influence, which has for so long troubled western democrats who still dare to believe in the potential of the land of the free as an agent of justice and reconciliation in the world, may at last have been halted. If we are to act with vision and moral courage, we might first examine what recent events both demand of us and offer to us. - Jill Segger, The Catholic Herald


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Feature - Christ the King

Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in answer to numerous requests from Cardinals, bishops and lay faithful at a time when Christ was being pushed more and more out of the lives of nations, families and individuals. The Pope commented that when the reign of Christ was challenged by anti-clericalism, or secularism, it was opportune to institute a feast of the kingship of Christ. - Fr John Flader, The Record


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Featured Website - Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans

After launching earlier this week, the website for the Queensland branch of the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH), takes its place as one of the most informative and fit for purpose sites in the Church in Australia.


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Film Review - Quantum of Solace

This Bond movie avoids the humour and whimsy of past 007 exploits, and substitutes fast action in their place. If anything moves, it is bound to soon explode, collapse or crash, and James Bond will be there in the middle of it. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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