Hundreds of Muslims have demonstrated outside Malaysia's highest court as it postponed a decision on whether to hear the Church's bid to be allowed to call God 'Allah,' reports AAP/SBS.
The responses to the Vatican questionnaire on the family are a clear signal that certain changes concerning the Church’s teaching on sexual morality are imperative, according to Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier, Germany, reports NCR Online.
The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) says the 2013 NAPLAN results released on the My School website yesterday need to be considered in context.
Annabel Pike and Michael Mangan will be the official ambassadors for Catholic Education Week 2014 in Queensland, reports The Catholic Leader.
The Wind Rises
06-Mar-2014
The Wind Rises received award nominations, including for the Golden Globe for Best foreign Language film. It is the final film of celebrated animator, Hauao Miyazaki, noted to such films as Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponette by the Sea.
Pope Francis has suggested the Church could tolerate some types of non-marital civil unions as a practical measure to guarantee property rights and health care. He also said the Church would not change its teaching against artificial birth control but should take care to apply it with 'much mercy, he said in a wide-ranging interview published yesterday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
The everyday implications of same-sex marriage
06-Mar-2014
It now seems certain that before too many years elapse, the US Supreme Court will be forced to acknowledge the logic of its own jurisprudence on same-sex marriage and redefine marriage to include gay couples in all 50 states, writes Ross Douthat.
The priest investigating whether G K Chesterton’s Cause should be opened has hailed the writer as 'potentially a huge model' for the Church who 'breaks the mould of conventional holiness,' reports The Catholic Herald.
Pope Francis says retreats should renew the faith of participants, transforming their ministry and their relationships with others, reports the Catholic News Service.
Bishop speaks at Melbourne Ukraine protest
05-Mar-2014
Bishop Peter Stastiuk from Melbourne’s Ukranian Catholic Church was among those who took to the stage yesterday as hundreds of protesters rallied in Melbourne’s CBD to voice their rejection of Russian military intervention in Ukraine, reports the Herald-Sun.
Author and scholar George Weigel says his newly-released book offers readers the opportunity experience a centuries-old Lenten practice from Rome in their households across the globe, reports the Catholic News Agency.
What Pope Francis is saying on homosexuality
05-Mar-2014
One way to characterise what Pope Francis is doing regarding attitudes to homosexuality is that he is prodding us to think about what the Church's position should be, rather than what it has been, writes John Langan SJ.
Several Catholic High School alummni in Illinois are seeking 'to help a mum know her son' and the mother they are reaching out to is the woman upon whom the Oscar-nominated movie Philomena is based.
Tracks
05-Mar-2014
This Australian drama is an adaptation of Robyn Davidson's 1980 novel of the same name that depicts her trek across the Western desert of Australia from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean in 1977.
Pupils at Christ the King Primary School in Sydney's west will juggle technology and new friendships as they complete a public mural project, reports The Hills News.
Every year, without fail, Joe Ferri writes a $100 cheque to the Archdiocese of Newark for the Annual Appeal. This year, Ferri left the empty envelope on his pew, reports NCR.
Pope Francis magazine launched in Europe
05-Mar-2014
One of the largest publishing companies in Europe is releasing a first-ever weekly magazine dedicated entirely to Pope Francis due to the impact his Pontificate has had in the world over the last year, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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