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In a decision with great significance for church organisations, the High Court has ruled that profits from a business enterprise operated by a charity and used to fund its activities are exempt from taxation.
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Argentine bishop accuses Martini
Archbishop Hector Aguer of Argentina has accused retired Milan Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, in his new book "Nocturnal Conversations in Jerusalem", of casting "doubt on truths and practices" taught by the Church.
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Dad in Ark protest
A Queensland man has launched action in the Anti-Discrimination Commission after his four year old daughter was asked to help make a replica of Noah's Ark at the local state school.
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Catholic Health moots aged care one stop shop
Catholic Health Australia has proposed the Federal Government should establish a one stop shop for all aged care assessment and entry processes to provide frail older Australians with more choices.
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Priests come in at five on charts
Million dollar Irish singers The Priests have stormed to number five on British charts with the release of their debut album in the lead up to Christmas.
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God responsible for financial crisis: Bidgood
Addressing a Micah Challenge conference, Federal Labor MP James Bidgood has described the global financial crisis as an act of God and a sign of the "end times".
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Kimberley sister killed on day before departure
A day before her departure from the Kimberley, prominent local identity, Josephite Sr Veronica Ryan, has been killed in a car crash near Wyndham in remote Western Australia.
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Gambler stole $300,000 from Mercies
Former Mercy Disabled Services director, Lawrence Bodin Shaw, has pleaded guilty to the theft of over $300,000 from the organisation to fund his gambling addiction.
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Coleridge ordains two Latin Mass priests
Archbishop Mark Coleridge has ordained two Canberra men for the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter at the first Solemn Pontifical Mass following the traditional extraordinary form of the Roman Rite at St Christopher's Cathedral in years.
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Feature - Defending for Jesus
The cross is etched on the size 10 Nike boots with a felt marker, but the tattoo at the top of the player's right arm is a more permanent reminder that there is nothing ordinary about the commitment to the cross and how it shapes the life of the man inside the boots, on and off the football field. The man inside the boots is a Christian who plays the game as hard, but as fairly, as he can. - Grantley Bernard, Herald Sun
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Featured Website - Tiber River
Tiber River is a Colorado based organisation providing Catholic book reviews and what it claims to be "authentically" Catholic information and opinions about different areas of Catholic culture. Its objective is to provide religious education via the internet.
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Film Review - Youth Without Youth
Although sumptuously produced, Youth Without Youth is a disappointing journey into dreams, myths and the search for ultimate knowledge, that is at times laboured and confusing. It marks a fascinating departure from this great filmmaker’s usual work, and it’s anyone’s guess where cinema will take him next. - Jan Epstein, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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Opinion - The tricky future of marriage
The Church's teaching that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, who share a common life together and are open to children, is a statement of what exists, formed in the biological reality of male and female, and the means by which the human race continues. But to state that is now to court difficulties. - Joanna Bogle, The Catholic Herald
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OPINION
Beyond knowledge to wisdomI believe this is one of the crisis points for contemporary Christianity. Put bluntly, its representatives do not seem wise. Yes, those representatives can give you any amount of information, some of them can even speak knowledgeably of Christian teachings. Wisdom is another thing altogether. - Fr Michael Whelan [More] - Aquinas Academy
FEATURE
Connected across bordersIt is time for leaders of nations to see their national interests as connected with the interests of people on the other side of the globe. We have reached the point where human existence is at stake and our destiny is inextricably linked. If we are to overcome this crisis of climate change we need to think beyond the confines of national states. - Just Comment [More] - Edmund Rice Centre
FEATURED CATHOLIC WEBSITE
Catholic Education Diocese of ParramattaReturning to our education theme, we shine the spotlight on arguably the most innovative Catholic education website in the country. In addition to all the standard features of any CEO site, Parramatta's includes some interactive opinion polls and a competition for students to attempt to ''Become the Executive Director for the day''. The site is also well regarded for its RE and curriculum resources.
- www.parra.catholic.edu.au
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20 years for beheading three Christian girls
A Muslim militant from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, was yesterday sentenced to twenty years in prison for masterminding the beheading murder of three Christian girls.
Hasanuddin, 34, who goes by a single name, along with co-conspirators Lilik Purnomo, 28, and Irwanto Irano, 29, were found guilty on Wednesday of decapitating the three Christian schoolgirls in the town of Poso and dumping their bloodied heads in nearby villages, judges said.
The three militants had faced a maximum penalty of death by firing squad, but judges ruled that they deserved some leniency for co-operating with authorities, confessing and showing remorse.
All three confessed to their role in the crime and were forgiven by the victims' relatives.
AsiaNews noted Indonesian press reports that the sentences corresponded to the demands of the prosecution.
The alleged members of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network left a handwritten note close to the bodies, vowing more killings to avenge the deaths of Muslims in earlier sectarian violence on Sulawesi island.
"Wanted - 100 more heads," said Judge Lilik Mulyadi, reciting the letter's text. "Blood must be paid with blood, lives with lives, heads with heads."
The grisly nature of the beheadings - which occurred as the children were cutting through a cocoa plantation on their way to school - gave fresh impetus to the country's war on terrorism and was followed by scores of arrests.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks in recent years targeting local Christians and nightclubs, restaurants and foreign embassies.
Judge Udar Siregar told the Central Jakarta District Court that Hasanuddin ordered the slayings and helped dumped their girls' heads in three Christian-dominated villages. Purnomo and Irano were found guilty of "ambushing and beheading" the teens, he said.
Nigerian Muslim students kill Christian teacher
In another story, Muslim students at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death today after accusing her of desecrating the Koran.
Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was adjudicating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident occurred.
The students attacked her outside the school compound after the exam and killed her, witnesses said.
It was not clear exactly what Olusase had done that angered the students.
Police confirmed the killing and said their intervention had prevented the incident from turning into a riot.
SOURCE
Indonesian militant gets 20 years for beheading Christian girls (Canada.com, 21/3/07)
Lenient sentence for those who beheaded three Christian girls (AsiaNews, 21/3/07)
Muslim pupils kill teacher (Herald-Sun, 22/3/07)
ARCHIVE
Indonesian prosecutors allege man planned hundreds of Christian decapitations (CathNews, 9/11/06)
Indonesian govt arrests religious violence suspects (CathNews, 1/7/06)
Indonesia allows executed Catholic's body to return home (CathNews, 26/9/06)
Indonesian Catholics executed this morning (CathNews, 22/9/06)
Execution looms again for Indonesian Catholics (CathNews, 20/9/06)
Demonstrators call for execution of Indonesian Catholics (CathNews, 5/9/06)
Fate of Bali bombers raises hope for three condemned Indonesian Catholics (CathNews, 22/8/06)
Miracle last hour stay of execution for death row Indonesians (CathNews, 14/8/06)
Thousands rally to save death row Catholics in Indonesia (CathNews, 11/8/06)
Indonesian Catholics to face firing squad on Saturday (CathNews 10/8/06) a/A>
Indonesian death row Catholics lose court appeal (CathNews 16/5/06)
Further appeal opportunity for Indonesian death row Catholics (CathNews 19/4/06)
Activists maintain fight for death row Indonesian Catholics (CathNews 10/4/06)
Second clemency plea for death row Indonesian Catholics (CathNews 28/3/06)
Pope sends envoy to death row Indonesians (CathNews 22/3/06)
Indonesian bishop condemns Catholics' death sentence (CathNews 29/11/05)
Looming execution of three Indonesian Catholics (CathNews 17/11/05)
Indonesian bishop concerned about resurgence of violence in Poso (CathNews 16/8/02)
22 Mar 2007
