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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Uniting Church in Australia
		The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was formed on June 22, 1977 when the Methodist Church of Australasia, Presbyterian Church of Australia and Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union document.
		The Anglican Church of Australia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia (renamed in 1981).
		The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on June 22, 1977, as a union of three churches: the Congregational Union of Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Uniting-Church-in-Australia (4557 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - The Church in Australia : can the tide be turned.
		The Catholic Church Life Survey of 1996 showed the attendance rate of those aged 16-25 at less than five per cent, so that over time, the national rate is likely to reflect this.
		Australia, today is culturally much richer specially with the large number of Indian Catholics of Portuguese Descent as well as Indian Catholics from other ethnic groups as also Vietnamese Catholics, Korean Catholics, Maronite Catholics from Lebanon as well as Chaldean Iraqi Catholics who have settled in Australia in recent years.
		So while regular church attendance figures are probably not a 100% indicator of actual religious belief, orthodoxy in the formal practise of the faith does often tend to correspond to like behaviors and attitudes in other areas of life as well.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&topic_id=8441&reply_id=55210 (5021 words)

	Roman Catholicism in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Roman Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
		There are an estimated 5.1 million baptized Roman Catholics in Australia, 28 percent of the population, making it Australia's largest followed Christian religion (not counting Anglicans as protestants).
		In Australia's seven archdioceses and 32 dioceses there are an estimated 3000 priests and 9000 men and women in Catholic orders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_in_Australia (167 words)

	Australia & Oceania- Catholic Church Local History and Ancestors Genealogy Research
		The Maronite Catholic Church in Australia by Monsignor Joseph Takchi B.A.; B.Theol.
		Church of the Assumption [1959]- Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
		Catholic Sabah - Official News of the Dioceses of Keningau and Kota Kinabalu.
	home.att.net /~Local_Catholic/Catholic-Australia-Oceania.htm (3228 words)

	OVERVIEW: Australia's Ukrainian Catholic Church (08/08/99) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In October 1958, the Church held its first conference of clergy that was attended by Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, and Archbishop Buchko, leader of the Church-in-exile in Rome.
		The committee alerted Australia to the terrible phenomenon of "ethnic cleansing" by using media outlets and press conferences, by urging that the matter be raised in the Federal Senate, and by involving the Bishops' Conference.
		The future of the Church in Australia depends on how well it is able to adapt to living in a culture foreign to the one in which it was born.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/329920.shtml (2017 words)

	The Church in Australia: The Catholic Tradition
		The church's authority to give religious instruction and ensure that parents educated their children in the faith could and would not be surrendered to the state, and so the education of Catholic children became a bitter battleground.
		The extraordinary loyalty of Australian Catholics to their clergy and bishops as well as to the see of Rome is due to the fact that colonial pastors and people both came from simple working stock and had to share the rigours of a new life amid social discrimination...
		The effect in many Catholic families was to bring about an obvious stunting of private conscience, a kind of persisting moral adolescence in which the clergy and bishops were apt to be regarded as the only full-grown elders of the tribe whose judgement could be trusted on almost any issue (Conway, 1971: 196).
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /staffhome/yukoszarycz/ecc/MOD8.HTML (8169 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia
		Australia is one of the unsolved riddles of ethnology.
		Australian Catholics, however, it is especially gratifying that one of the first contributions of a writer of their faith and country dealt a severe blow at the convict system; this work was Dr.
		Australia is his monumental "History of the Catholic Church in Australasia".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02113b.htm (6159 words)

	Catholic Enquiry Centre - HOME
		An initiative to develop programs aimed at inviting Catholics back to the practice of their faith will be the first task of the new National Office for Evangelization on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
		Catholic Enquiry Centre (CEC) is the national faith promotion outreach of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference.
		The Centre aims to assist Catholics seeking a return to faith practice (pastoral), to offer clear information about the Catholic Faith for those who are searching for faith, and for people of other religious backgrounds (evangelical), and to promote inter-religious understanding (ecumenical).
	www.catholicenquiry.com (222 words)

	Catholic Australia - Catholic Church in Australia
		According to the 2001 Australian Census, the Catholic population was 5,001,624 or 26.6% of the total Australian population.
		(A diocese is a section of the Church entrusted to the leadership of a bishop.) There are twenty-eight dioceses based on territorial divisions, three dioceses of Eastern Catholic Churches and one military diocese, where the bishop’s responsibility is the pastoral care of Catholic members of the Australian Defence Forces and their families.
		The three largest Eastern Catholic Churches in Australia are the Maronite, Melkite and Ukrainian, each of which has been established as a diocese (or eparchy), with a bishop (or eparch) who is a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
	www.catholicaustralia.com.au /page.php?pg=church-survey1 (691 words)

	Uniting Church in Australia - Comment on 'Church on the rocks'
		It is fairly clear to me that the Protestant church was infiltrated and perhaps even compromised during the period of Indonesian occupation and the period associated with the UN sponsored referendum.
		Church members, pastors and even ministers are not beyond their grasp.
		The church is fully aware of this situation and is constantly faced with the issue of sustaining itself in such a climate of national poverty.
	www.etan.org /et2004/july/22/16unitng.htm (1706 words)

	NSW Synod - Uniting Church in Australia
		The Uniting Church in Australia has called on the churches of the Pacific to stand in solidarity with the Aboriginal people of Australia to resist changes being proposed by the government in land tenure and ownership and welfare services in remote areas.
		Having tasted something of the vibrancy of growing churches in other cultures and adventurous United Methodist initiatives while attending a seminar in the United States, Alan Robinson is even more aware of the culture of failure and decline that has developed in Uniting Church congregations.
		Churches that fail to integrate the interest and viewpoints of youth are losing the opportunity to hear from those people — possibly forever.
	nsw.uca.org.au (1269 words)

	History - Journey Of The Catholic Church In Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Catholic Church has had its "Lost Generations" during the first 33 years of the colony, as the government took away all children born to Catholic convicts and baptised and reared them in the Church of England.
		His pamphlet, "The Catholic Mission in Australasia" was published in 1837 and caused the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to ask for more details of the horrors of the penal system in Australia.
		Another Catholic Apostle of Reform was Caroline Chisholm, whose picture was on the $5 note for the Bicentennial in 1988.
	www.catholicenquiry.com /history2.asp (1890 words)

	CACW
		As part of the ongoing research into the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia, CACW has recently conducted a survey of women involved in ecumenism and or interfaith through Church structures both in Australia and internationally.
		Women from across Australia gave up their weekend to gather in Sydney in March to discern ways forward in the promotion of the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia....
		In May 2003, Geraldine Hawkes, the Chair of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women met with the Conference of Bishops to report on the progress being made in the promotion of women in the Church in Australia.
	www.cacw.catholic.org.au /news/news.asp?id=0 (2266 words)

	Catholic Church in Australia embroiled in child sex scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Sydney, Australia -- The Catholic Church in Australia was embroiled in a child sex scandal Friday after its most senior clergyman denied offering bribes to cover up abuse allegations against a priest.
		The bribery allegation came amid a crisis that has shaken the church in the United States, with revelations that priests across the country abused children sexually and that senior clergy tried to conceal incidents by moving known offenders to other parishes.
		Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell told a news conference Thursday that a television news program to be aired this weekend alleges that he tried to cover up sex abuse claims made against a priest in 1993 by offering the victim financial assistance in return for his silence.
	www.rickross.com /reference/clergy/clergy92.html (520 words)

	Catholic Mission - Life for All
		We are the Australian arm of the Catholic Church’s global mission aid agency in a worldwide network known as the Pontifical Mission Societies.
		Groups of students and teachers from twenty Catholic Secondary Colleges along the eastern seaboard from Port Macquarie in New South Wales through to Ingham in North Queensland, together with young adults from parishes, are travelling to various locations across the Pacific Rim to be deeply immersed in traditional Melanesian and Polynesian cultures.
		In harmony with the Australian Church as we prepare for World Youth Day in 2008, Catholic Mission is highlighting the fantastic mission work of young people around the world, particularly in their own communities....
	www.catholicmission.org.au (410 words)

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		SYDNEY, Australia (Catholic Online) — The Catholic Church needs to continue to offer support to, promote the welfare of and be a force in promoting dialogue with indigenous peoples, the Australian bishops said in a statement reflecting on the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s address to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
		The Australian Catholic Church has been guilty in the past of being less welcoming to indigenous Catholics as migrant Catholics, the bishops said.
		The challenge facing the Catholic Church and Australian society, the bishops said, is “to move closer to achieving a new reconciliation” with the indigenous peoples.
	www.catholic.org /printer_friendly.php?id=21252§ion=Cathcom (854 words)

	Catholic News Service ABOUT CNS
		The mission of Catholic News Service is the mission of the Church itself -- to spread the Gospel through contemporary means of communication.
		Catholic News Service, serving since 1920 as a news agency specializing in reporting religion, is the primary source of national and world news that appears in the U.S. Catholic press.
		The approximately 170 U.S. Catholic newspapers and broadcasters and the more than 70 other news organizations in some 60 countries that rely on CNS touch the lives of more than 8 million throughout the world.
	www.catholicnews.com /aboutcns.htm (722 words)

	HREOC Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
		It can be said with great sadness that Australia has failed dismally in its role to protect the rights of children and adults in detention despite the overriding commitments required and agreed to by Australia as a signatory to the various UN Conventions.
		On 22 March 2002 the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Australia issued a media release and lengthy statement on the plight of asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.
		Their whereabouts would be monitored in Australia at a smaller cost to the Australian taxpayer and the overall health and well being of the asylum seekers would not deteriorate at the alarming rates as is happening in detention.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /Human_Rights/children_detention/submissions/cath_mig.html (938 words)

	CATHOLIC WOMEN
		In 1996 the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) launched a major research initiative focusing on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia.
		The aim in doing so was to gather information about the participation of women in the Church in order to help Church bodies to reflect on and promote the Gospel vision of the equal dignity of women and men, to discuss the issues in a constructive way, and to plan for the future.
		It also suggested that the nature of ministry within the Church, and in particular the role of women in Church ministries, be addressed; and that programs be developed to promote the equality and dignity of women, enabling a better balance of women and men, clergy, religious and laity on Church bodies.
	www.geraldtondiocese.org.au /catholic_women.htm (1046 words)

	Catholic World News and Vatican News; Eternal Word Television Network
		Their opposition, he writes in his explanatory letter, was based on fears that the wider use of the pre-conciliar liturgy could appear to undermine the authority of Vatican II, and/or cause divisions with the Catholic Church.
		The Pope also acknowledges that some Catholics find a greater sense of reverence in the older liturgy-- in what will now be known as the extraordinary form of the Roman rite.
		Catholic bishops around the world have offered widely varied responses to Summorum Pontificum, with some bishops welcoming the return of the older liturgy and others discouraging its use.
	www.ewtn.com /news (718 words)

	AM Archive - Church has a long way to go in handling sex abuse
		Now the Church has implemented a nine-point plan in dealing with abuse and has established a central organising body designed to handle complaints and so serious is the Church about getting it right, it ordered an independent review of its procedures less than two years ago which resulted in even more changes.
		TANYA NOLAN: But the Catholic Church is not alone in grappling with the issue of sexual abuse.
		I think the Church does a remarkable work across Australia, or the Churches do a remarkable work across Australia and I think, I would hope that the community at large would begin to appreciate that and that those who step out of line are in fact a minority.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s510709.htm (411 words)

	About Our Faith - Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
		The Church defines a diocese as "a portion of the people of God, which is entrusted to a bishop" or, as "a community of Christ's faithful in communion of faith and sacraments with their bishop."
		The bishop "governs the particular Church (diocese) entrusted to him with legislative, executive and judicial power, in accordance with the law." The last phrase is important: not only are some matters regularly reserved to the pope, but in other matters the rights and responsibilities of individuals or groups within the Church are legally defined.
		In Australia, most parish property is owned by a diocesan body recognised in state law.
	www.mn.catholic.org.au /about/ourfaith.htm (490 words)

	CACW
		Catholic women from across the nation are sharing their deepest stories of faith and spirituality in a new anthology which is being billed as a love story — between Australian women and the Eternal Lover.
		Young Catholic women are being given a unique opportunity to help break down the fear and tension created by recent terror attacks and world conflicts by taking up an opportunity to be trained and mentored in interfaith relations.
		The Commission is seeking applications from Catholic women aged between 25-35 with experience, interest and/or capacity for leadership in Interfaith relations....
	www.cacw.catholic.org.au /news/news.asp?id=458 (870 words)

	CNN.com - Church admits abuse victims silenced - June 10, 2002
		The church claims the secrecy clauses were included in error, while Pell, who has repeatedly denied allegations over the past two weeks of hush money payments to sex abuse victims, has said he will review all files under his Archdiocese.
		The church's program for sex abuse victims, Towards Healing, explicitly states there should be no restrictions on sex abuse victims speaking out.
		The revelations were reinforced Monday by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane which admitted the inclusion of confidentiality clauses in compensation agreements for victims in the northern Australian state of Queensland.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/06/10/aust.church.abuse (449 words)

	Archbishop Pell’s appointment to Melbourne
		Disgusting and abhorrent as they are, especially when the actions of a relative few have all but destroyed the confidence which Catholics had in their priests and bishops, the great majority of whom were and remain faithful to their principles, they do not rank with the major crisis.
		The first relates to the attitude of the increasing number of Catholics, under the influence of progressivist priests, to the outer limits of the doctrines and moral teachings of the Catholic Church.
		It is that one sincerely accepts the claim of the Catholic Church to be the Church founded by Jesus Christ to convey his message to the world, and that, in matters of faith and morals, one accepts the ultimate authority of the Bishop of Rome.
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/1996/sep1996p2_876.html (1149 words)

	Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Catholic Church in Australia will celebrate the nation’s first peoples on July 6 with special prayers and observances for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday.
		The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) has produced a kit for use in all parishes throughout the country to help them celebrate Indigenous input and culture within the Catholic Church in Australia.
		NATSICC is officially recognised by the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference as the national representative and consultative body to the Church on issues concerning Indigenous Catholics.
	www.bne.catholic.net.au /news/printready.php?Item_Id=157 (333 words)

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