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Unbaptised babies in heaven makes more sense than Limbo, group says ■ By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - It makes more sense that babies who die without being baptised will go to heaven rather than limbo, says a group of papally-appointed theologians. Members of the International Theological Commission said that while no one can be certain of the fate of unbaptised babies who die, Christians can and should trust that God will welcome those babies into heaven. The commission, a Vatican advisory board, met from October 2-6 to continue work on a statement explaining why the concept of
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The move begins: The coffin containing the remains of Bishop Matthew Gibney is carefully transferred onto the base of a new casket by staff of Bowra and O’Dea on Tuesday October 10. Bishop Martin Griver’s coffin was also moved that day. PHOTO: SYLVIA DEFENDI REPORT by Sylvia Defendi - Page 5
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 8, 2006 (Zenit.org) - Benedict XVI proposed to young people that they be the new missionaries in the streets and squares of cities. The Pope uttered his exhortation when greeting 350 young “missionaries,” as he called them, who had just participated in the third “Jesus in the Centre” mission, carried out from September 28 to October 8 on the streets of Rome. The young people were in St Peter’s Square, along with the crowds that gathered to pray the Angelus with the Pope. It marked the closing act of the young people’s missionary experience. “Dear friends,” the Holy Father said, “I rejoice over your joyful commitment to proclaim the Gospel on the streets and squares, in schools and hospitals, as well as in young Romans’ places of recreation.” Continued on page 10
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Ex-Lutheran Cardinal Pell refuses to endorse non-Catholic schools bishop: why but speaking to Australia’s top Catholic educators, he points out the Church has stopped educating the children of the poor I’m becoming a believe the proposition that “only one religion Mohammed in his recent Regensburg address, I is true”. too cite this example without endorsement!” Catholic priest He also said he had not been surprised to The remark was a cheeky reference by the ■ By Paul Gray
Cardinal George Pell has refused to endorse the choice made by some Catholic parents to educate their children in non-Catholic schools as a measure to best protect their faith. Speaking at a national gathering of senior leaders in Catholic education, Cardinal Pell presented a worrying statistical picture of the state of faith among students in Catholic schools around Australia. The Cardinal cited recent research showing that only 10 per cent of young Catholics today
read that 19 per cent of students in Catholic schools had reported being made fun of at school because of their religion. Cardinal Pell said he had heard anecdotes about such experiences for years, and that this “parallels the small number of religiously committed parents who choose to send their children to non-Catholic schools claiming that their children’s religious practice was more likely to survive intact there”. “Like the Holy Father citing a comment about
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Perth bioethicist Fr Joe Parksinson reflects on arguments used to justify cloning. If Australia has surplus embryos available for experimentation, what’s going on?
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Cardinal to division within the Catholic community over the quality of the job being done by Catholic schools in the area of religious formation of the young. His speech, delivered at the National Catholic Education Conference in Sydney, included commendations of the work being done by Catholic leaders and educators within the Catholic school system around Australia. But Cardinal Pell also lamented the fact that
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CAMROSE, Canada (CCN/ Western Catholic Reporter) – Forty years after he was ordained a Lutheran minister, Joseph Jacobson can’t wait to become a Catholic priest. Jacobson, the former bishop of
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Australia’s Parliament is considering the case for cloning, but the nation’s bishops spring to the defence of the human person at his or her youngest stage.
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