Howard’s net porn crusade
JOHN Howard is going to spend $189 million “cleaning up the internet” for Australian families.
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CONCERNED senior Catholics have declared the church is in the grip of a serious leadership crisis and have petitioned Australia’s bishops to support reform measures, including the ordination of married men.
Pentecostals are the big winners in a world that’s hungry for ho
BRETT Macpherson came to Jesus the hard way, via a sad and violent family background, drugs and crime, stints in jail, time in rehab and an ultimate realisation that even a life lived clean and sober was not enough.
Jesuit priest raps cardinal’s critics
HITTING back at critics who oppose religious leaders’ right to speak out over ethical issues, a leading Catholic intellectual has defended interventions in debates such as the one over embryonic stem cell research.
Conscience before church, priest urges
DIVISIONS between Catholic Church heavyweights over the primacy of conscience emerged yesterday, as the NSW parliament continued to debate a bill on human stem cell research.
Church leaders preach Easter optimism
CHURCH leaders have urged Christians to stay optimistic this Easter despite drought, climate change and other trials.
Wealth up, age down on Forbes rich list
THE rich are getting richer, and younger.
Universal primate plan ‘overstated’
IT’S nowhere near time for Henry VIII to start rolling in his grave, but Anglicans bowing to the authority of the pope has been acknowledged as a theoretical possibility.
Grassroots idea grows into $90 million scheme
JOHN Howard’s $90 million initiative for a chaplain for every school germinated at a grassroots level on the Mornington Peninsula.
Teachers baulk at Howard’s chaplains
THOUSANDS of religious counsellors will be appointed to schools that join a new $90 million federal program to fill a significant “spiritual and pastoral” gap in services to Australian students.
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