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Palestinian Christians caught between ‘extremists’ ■ By Karin Kloosterman
TEL AVIV, Israel (CNS) Palestinian Christians living in the West Bank and Israel expressed anger after Israeli airstrikes in Qana, Lebanon, left 65 civilians dead in the largest attack against Hezbollah since the war began mid-July. Jacob Zakharia, a Palestinian Melkite Catholic living in Jerusalem’s Old City, said that Palestinian Christians are most affected by the conflict. “We are sandwiched between extreme Jews and extreme Muslims,” Zakharia said. Like many, Zakharia expected an Israeli aerial cease-fire following the July 31 Qana attack. “I heard half an hour ago on the radio that Israel was bombing again,” Zakharia told Catholic News Service on July 31. Israeli forces carried out aerial attacks in southern Lebanon on July 31, hours after the government agreed to a 48-hour halt while investigating its bombing in Qana. But a representative from the Israeli Defence Forces said, “This was not a cease-fire. There was a partial suspension of certain aerial activities.”
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The young gather: The first of Catholic Youth Ministry’s eight-part series on the Theology of the Body got off to a flying start with plenty of interest from youth and others last week. Full story - Page 7
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UNDA throws doors open The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus will open its doors to the public on Sunday August, 13, 2006 from 10am until 4pm. “Notre Dame’s annual Open Day is designed for prospective students who wish to view the Campus and to hear first-hand what is on offer at Notre Dame,” said Liz Beal, Manager of the Prospective Students and Marketing Office. Information sessions and work-
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shops will be held on most of the university’s courses. “Teaching staff and current students will be available to speak to prospective students and to answer any questions that visitors may have. We will also be hosting guided tours of the campus during the day,” explained Liz. For more information on Notre Dame’s Open Day contact the Prospective Students and Marketing Office on 9433 0533 or visit the website - www.nd.edu.au.
A day for students: The University of Notre Dame’s open day is on August 13.
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OUR CORRESPONDENT Archbishop Barry Hickey took time out from his sabbatical to report home for readers of The Record from the Philippines after attending a conference in Korea.
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Catholic politicians should have a “readiness to compromise” with non-Catholic points of view on issues like abortion and euthanasia, high-profile Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan says. And church leaders “may not enforce” particular methods of enshrining morality in law, as some US bishops did when threatening to deny Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who supported abortion rights in the 2004 election, Fr Brennan also said. Speaking at a Jesuit conference in Melbourne on evangelisation and culture, Fr Brennan addressed the perennially heated issue of Catholic politicians and abortion law. Fr Brennan endorsed the view that “authoritative church teaching” can be rejected by a committed Catholic so long as they have engaged in “mature reflection and discernment” first. “The committed Catholic cannot be satisfied that his conscience is properly formed and informed simply by pledging adherence to Vatican declarations,” he said. “Authoritative church teaching is a privileged guide to be discounted only after mature reflection and prayerful discernment.” His speech attempted to draw upon two major intellectual authorities of the modern Catholic world Cardinal John Henry Newman and Pope Benedict XVI - to support the view that Catolic MPs should not be forced to oppose liberal abortion reforms. Continued on page 2
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Michael Cook of Mercatornet gained an exclusive interview with the author of a new book detailing how doctors participated in torture by US troops in Iraq.
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