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Australian Catholic Students Association Annual Conference |
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Posted by: tmc on 06/03/2009 11:07 AM
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Australian Catholic Students are running their annual conference this year in Sunny Queensland. Its always a rort and a great time to get to know 100's of other students from all over Australia, as well as share in great talks and workshops!
It is to be held in QLD from July 9 - July 11, at Duschene College, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus.
For the full details go to their website:
http://www.catholicstudents.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83&Itemid=66 |
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Qld Right to Life rebranding BBQ - Cherish Life |
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Posted by: admin on 08/28/2008 05:18 PM
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To celebrate RTLQ's name change from
"Queensland Right to Life"
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"Cherish Life Queensland",
you are invited to a
FREE
Sausage Sizzle
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Orleigh Park,
West End,
on Sunday 31st August 2008
Please come along and make this social event a big success - bring all the family, picnic rugs/foldup chairs etc. We will provide cordial, cold water, and of course the sausage sizzle! To ensure you don't miss out on your fair share of sausages, please call 3871 2445 or email by Wednesday 27th August. LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.
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Faith on Tap with Bishop Anthony Fisher - Director of WYD08! |
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Posted by: admin on 08/27/2008 10:53 AM
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Who better to keep the post WYD momentum going and to welcome in this new era in the Church in Australia than the Bishop who ran the show, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney and Coordinator of World Youth Day 2008 - Bishop Anthony Fisher!
The August FoT launch was a great success with lots of media coverage and over 100 people coming from as far as Toowoomba and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. Continue the momentum with Bishop Fisher talking on "Benedict XVI's WYD Apostles". Hundreds packed the Irish Pub in Sydney recently to hear him.
Bishop Anthony Fisher was the man behind WYD08 and is an Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney! He is also a Parish Priest!
He'll share some of the 'behind the scenes' action at WYD, and you'll have the opportunity to ask him your hard questions.
Spread the word!
Get there by bus to the Woolloongabba Busway, the City Cat to Mowbray Park or there is plenty of street parking.
Special $10 meals available for FoT folk.
Kick off @ 6.30pm, grab dinner or a drink.
Speaker @ 7.30pm
Free 4 all Q&A 8pm
September 8th at the Pineapple Hotel Kangaroo Point.
Check The Faith on Tap website for more information. |
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Love woes can be blamed on contraceptive pill: research |
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Posted by: admin on 08/15/2008 09:48 AM
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If you are having relationship problems, you might be able to blame it on the contraceptive pill.
New research from the University of Liverpool in Britain shows taking the pill can lead women to choose the wrong partner - and lead to all sorts of problems when they stop.
from here ABC.net.au
"Oral contraceptives totally disrupt the normal hormonal cascade. When the hormonal system is disrupted, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and other serious illnesses will increase. My clinical experience has clearly shown that it is impossible to adequately treat these illnesses if there is an imbalanced hormonal system."
From the lifesite
In addition to altering women's natural attraction to suitable partners, the pill also permanently damages sex drive over long-term use, according to one study (Read http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/may/05052603.html).
Related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Birth Control Pill May Cause Prostate Cancer and Bladder Disease in Mothers' Children
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/may/05050411.html
The Pill is Deadly to Babies and Women
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/jan/99011203.html
Online Video: Noted Endocrinologist Explains How the Birth Control Pill Causes Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07080303.html |
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Faith on Tap! |
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Posted by: admin on 07/04/2008 11:13 AM
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Heard about the event that's attracting over 500 university students and young adults (under 35) each month in Sydney? Post WYD in August sees Faith on Tap launch in Brisbane based on Sydney's famous Theology on Tap, start every second Monday at 6:30pm.
Every second Monday of the month, the young & hip of Brisbane will be hitting up the Pineapple Hotel in Kangaroo Point to grab some food and drinks and listen to some of the best speakers around and quiz them in the 'free 4 all' Q&A.
"Faith on Tap" is a casual and relaxed forum where friends from all walks of life gather for straight talk, hard facts and real answers on our faith and how it applies to daily life.
Come for a listen (and maybe a drink!). Invite your friends, especially those wanting to learn more (or debate) about the Catholic faith! Fire off the questions you have never had the opportunity to ask!
Get on the tap with other young adults & learn about the Catholic faith in a new & refreshing way.
Dates confirmed. 2nd Monday of the Month at the Pineapple Hotel Kangaroo Point. Starting Post WYD in August on Monday the 11th.
Check The Faith on Tap website for more information. |
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Right to Life Conference SATURDAY 21 JUNE, 2008 |
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Posted by: admin on 05/21/2008 01:35 PM
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11:30am for 12 noon start - PARLIAMENTARY ANNEXE
View the full flier here.
RTL Fundraising lunch
Sunday 1st June 2008 11.30am St Kevin's Catholic Church Hall, 249 Newman Rd, Geebung
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Newman Gag story goes Global |
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Posted by: admin on 05/17/2008 11:59 AM
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The recent Newman story regarding their “pro-woman” and “pro-pregnancy” campaign has gone global with a number of sites picking up the story.
catholicnewsagency.com
 Catholic student group’s pregnancy support campaign banned at university campus
A Catholic student group at the University of Queensland has been censored and threatened with disaffiliation from the school’s student union because student union leaders believed the group’s “pro-woman” and “pro-pregnancy” campaign took a stand against abortion.
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lifesitenews.com
Pro-Abortion Expression Permitted, Pro-Life Forbidden on Campus at Australia University
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, May 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Student Union at Queensland University have shown themselves to be opposed to differing opinion and free speech like many other secular universities around the world.
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Pro-Life students muzzled in universities in Queensland and Wisconsin
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Newman Society Censured on Australian Campus — Won’t Toe Pro-abortion Line
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Abortion Supporters Don't Believe in the Viability of Their Cause.
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A letter to the Union from somone who had an abortion.
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Pro-Abortion Expression Permitted, Pro-Life Forbidden at Major Australian University
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Several Catholic bloggers have been discussing whether there is any meaningful difference between being "pro-choice" or being "pro-abortion".
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katoliko - The Online Resource for a Catholic Filipino
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Another Blog
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phatmass
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Our Campus Censors
"There are certain topics which are simply off limits. Abortion is one such topic. Homosexuality is another. So too is evolution, or challenges to it. There are certain issues which are simply taboo in Western universities, and if dissidents dare speak up to the contrary, they can expect swift and harsh punishment by the campus thought police.
"In the former Soviet Union dissidents were sent to the Gulag for daring to question the official State line. Increasingly, students or staff who dare to challenge the PC orthodoxies on campus are likewise sent to the academic Gulag, be it in the form of bans, fines, censorship or public humiliation."
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From Real Choices - Anti choice?
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splendoroftruth.com
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New WYD site launched YBENEDICT.org |
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Posted by: admin on 05/17/2008 11:48 AM
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YBENEDICT
http://www.yBenedict.org
A new website has just been launched in the lead up to WYD in Sydney. The site will be a daily news site by young people, with news, happenings and preparations on WYD. Sign up for the daily emails and keep up with the latest insider happenings. The site also includes useful info on registering, overseas pilgrims and groups that you may want to register with.
Check out
www.yBenedict.org |
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BOOK LAUNCH: RATZINGER'S FAITH The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI |
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Posted by: admin on 05/17/2008 11:45 AM
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Dr Tracey Rowland, Dean, John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family East Melbourne
Oxford University Press: Introduction by Cardinal Pell
Dr Rowland, a Queenslander, is an outstanding theologian on the world scene in
our time. Co-patron with Cardinal Pell of the Australian Catholic Students
Association, she will present this book, her second, at Duchesne College,
College Road, UQ, St Lucia, on Monday May 26, at 7.30 PM. |
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CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION Sunday 25, 2.00 PM |
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Posted by: admin on 05/17/2008 11:44 AM
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CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION will be on Sunday 25, 2.00 PM, Nudgee Junior, Kate
St, Indooroopilly, with Archbishop Bathersby.
Those who have come over the past ten years to this public manifestation of
Eucharistic Devotion will recall that the entry is from Kate St, and the
internal school drive is one- way, exiting on to Bridge St.
CHANGE: The school has introduced this change to traffic movements. The
driveway is still one-way, except for the last thirty metres before the exit.
It is now possible to drive in there from Bridge St, and into the car park.
Buses too should drop their passengers at that spot, allowing them to walk
across the flat to the stage location, while the buses go to park elsewhere.
Parking will also be possible in the fields on the far side of Kate St. |
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Iuventutem at WYD 08 Sydney |
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Posted by: admin on 05/17/2008 11:43 AM
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 IUVENTUTEM: Father Terrence Mary will speak after Mass at St Luke's Buranda in
David Edwards House on Iuventutem, the World Youth Day group celebrating the
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. He has been commissioned to do this in
all the Mass Centres across Australia. Needless to say this is intended
primarily for those who fill the definition of ?Young?, which is
arbitrarily determined as 18-35, but ALL WELCOME. 10.45 AM start.
More info http://www.juventutem-australia.com/ |
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Senate Submissions Required |
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Posted by: admin on 04/16/2008 10:44 AM
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The AFA website (www.family.org.au) has the details of three Senate Committees that are currently taking submissions on three very important issues;
SEXUALISATION OF CHILDREN IN THE CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BROADCASTING CODES OF PRACTICE
MATERNITY LEAVE INQUIRY-IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR PARENTS WITH NEWBORN CHILDREN
Please take the time to submit your pro-family thoughts on these issues. An outline of the AFA's intended approach to the issues raised and some further suggestions for members' own responses is also given. Readers may find this helpful in preparing their own responses. Many readers will be able to share personal experiences that pertain to the inquiry issues.
Details here;
http://www.family.org.au/senate-enquiries.html
www.family.org.au/senate-enquiries.html |
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Walking with Love - alternatives & responses to abortion |
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Posted by: admin on 03/18/2008 10:11 AM
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Walking with Love aims to educate all people of goodwill, on how to walk with love and gentleness in their encounter with vulnerable pregnant women and those who suffer the effects of an abortion.
Saturday 19th April 2008
Time: 12.45pm (for 1.15pm start) – 5.15pm
Marymac Community Centre,
616 Ipswich Rd, Annerley
View the flyer here;
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Are we just bored? |
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Posted by: admin on 03/12/2008 12:23 PM
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This article gives a succinct diagnosis of our culture. It would appear that everyone is hell bent of seeking pleasure and taking their 'freedom'! However, beneath all of this grasping, lies a deep 'pathology of boredom'. Everything is the same, on tap all the time, and as a consequence nothing is compelling!
The irony is that in seeking personal freedom, individuals have become trapped, disconnected and lonely as a consequence. Living in a 'private realm' hasn't brought them happiness.
A return to 'Sundays' & 'festivals' is posed to counteract this way of living. Feasting and fasting, to help bring the joy back to living. In a world of tolerance where nothing is good or evil, the greatest tragedy is society has lost the their very 'humanity'.
You can find the full text of this article here (PDF). |
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Not "new sins" but an old media blind spot |
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Posted by: admin on 03/12/2008 12:20 PM
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You may have heard a lot about a new list adding to the seven deadly sins.
Phil Lawler from CWnew.com sheds some light on what is really going on;
"When he finished his interview with L'Osservatore Romano, Archishop Gianfranco Girotti probably thought that his main message had been an appeal to Catholics to use the sacrament of Confession. Little did he know that the English-language news media would play the interview as a newly revised list of sins...
The fundamental point of the L'Osservatore Romano interview was that Catholics need to recover a sense of sin, make use of the sacrament of Confession, and receive absolution for their offenses. Sin, the archbishop insisted, is a reality that man cannot escape...
Archbishop Girotti said that the modern world does not understand the nature of sin. With their coverage of the interview, the mass media unintentionally underlined the prelate's point."
The full article can be found here. |
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Pope John Paul II Stars in New Music DVD |
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Posted by: admin on 11/27/2007 04:58 PM
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"Intended to build on the growing cultic veneration of the late Pope and add impetus to the campaign to make him a saint, the late Pope John Paul II is the star in a new trip-hop music video backed by the Vatican. The DVD was launched recently in the UK by Universal"
Preview Here |
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Cardinal Pell's Statement on Climate Change |
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Posted by: admin on 10/26/2007 10:23 AM
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| Cardinal George Pell has just released a statement on climate change. "I am certainly sceptical about extravagent claims of impending man-made climatic catastrophes... My task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people's minds, and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no clothes. " |
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AFA Conference - Strong Families Create Strong Children |
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Posted by: admin on 09/18/2007 03:06 PM
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Australian Family Association (AFA) Conference
Strong Families Create Strong Children
Saturday, 20th October
Parliament House - Parliamentary Annex
Alice Street
Brisbane
9.00am - 4.30pm
Students only $10
Speakers include
Miss Oregon Brita Stream “The Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer”
State Cloning Vote: Will conscience or ”con science’ prevail? - Dr. David van Gend, family doctor, Senior Lecturer, National/Qld Director of DO NO HARM: Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research.
”The Dolly/Cleo Culture”
by Anna Krohn, Researcher in Bioethics and Lecturer at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne.
“Sexualizing Our Little Girls”
by Melinda Tankard Reist, journalist and author of Giving Sorrow Words, and Defi ant Birth, and Director of Women’s Forum Australia
View the PDF Flyer Here |
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Call to Holiness Conference Sat 13 October |
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Posted by: admin on 09/18/2007 10:54 AM
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Call to Holiness
9th Annual Conference
Saturday 13 Oct 2007
St Ignatius Church Hall
30 Kensington Tce Toowong
Speakers include;
Rev Fr Gregory Jordan
Sue Moffat
Mr Anthony Cleary (Sydney CEO)
More details: Download the flyer here
Conference also includes exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Confession and Stalls.
Call to Holiness Website |
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Download the WYD song - free download. |
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Posted by: admin on 07/13/2007 12:16 PM
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The WYD theme song was recently released and can be downloaded from the WYD website.
If you can't handle Guy Sebastian you can even get the international version;
Go here;
http://www.wyd2008.org/index.php/en/wyd08/wyd08_song |
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Speech to the Australian Catholic Student's association |
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Posted by: admin on 07/10/2007 02:07 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen.
Firstly, I would like to pass on to you the Prime Minister’s greetings and sincere regrets that other commitments prevented him from attending this evening. He has asked me to represent him.
You have a major address coming from Bishop Anthony tonight so I will keep my remarks short. Everyone keeps reminding me that the Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in history yet it took only two minutes to say and has only 266 words.
To the point then.
“Your country needs you.” |
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Defending his right to speak: Cardinal George Pell |
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Posted by: admin on 06/19/2007 03:55 PM
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On Friday it was announced that Cardinal Pell's comments about a NSW bill on stem cell research would be investigated for contempt of parliament. You can listen/or read the transcript of his interview on Sunday with Monica Attard on Sunday profile here.
Some extracts;
"...Many Australians really don't understand the issues involved. They've been told that they're likely to be cures and therefore the human life involved is so microscopic and destined to exist for so long that unfortunately they're not too much concerned by that.
So, the situation has got to be explained to them. This is a marker event. We are creating human life to be destroyed...
I'm the only one that's talking the science. Now, the science is this. There have been no cures brought from experiments on embryos.
As yet. There have been many cures from adult stem cells. I think 1,422 trials, 72 claims actual for cures. I've set out these statistics before the federal legislation, before this legislation, they've never been refuted...
You see, it's very interesting when I say, as I did, on the industrial relations legislation, that the removal of the no-disadvantage test was a big mistake, nobody said that this was an infringement of church-state relations...
[I'm] informing the public that, to lapse into the vernacular, they're being sold a pup. That tens of millions of dollars are being put into embryonic stem cell research and there has not been one established cure so far. When are the economic rationalists, the hard heads, going to do a little bit of cost benefit analysis on this?"
The interview is here. |
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2028 CONGRESS - Canberra |
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Posted by: admin on 06/15/2007 09:57 AM
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Fri 6 - Sun 8 Jul - Canberra. Transport Available.
The 2028 CONGRESS will be a once in a life time opportunity to contribute to a vision for Australia’s future. World Youth Day 2008 will touch our country for many, many years to come & the 20 years beyond WYD has been defined as part of the final stage of the project: “The Legacy of WYD till 2028+.”
As we count down to the final year before WYD, the 2028 CONGRESS will be a chance for young Australians to reflect on the biggest cultural issues confronting our country into the future. With internationally acclaimed speakers gathered alongside an expected 300+ delegates, lively discussion is expected about life in 2028 – sex & vocation, poverty & economics, politics & prayer and life & death will all be addressed through the lens of ‘Faith in the Future’.
Visit Australia’s national icons in Canberra, join the Adoration roster, pray at Mass with hundreds of young Catholics & discuss the issues in life that really matter.
Full info;
http://www.towards2008.org.au/ |
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WILL THERAPEUTIC CLONING BE MOTHBALLED BEFORE IT SUCCEEDS? |
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Posted by: admin on 06/15/2007 09:55 AM
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Ten years ago there was Dolly the Scottish cloned sheep and the race towards therapeutic cloning was on. Ten years later there are Japanese mice and the race could be over. Three different groups reported last week that normal skin cells in mice can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state. "Neither eggs nor embryos are necessary. I've never worked with either," says Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who first unveiled the technique a year ago to sceptical colleagues.
Now his results have been confirmed by two other teams, at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The reprogrammed cells meet all the tests of pluripotent cells -- they form colonies, propagate continuously and form cancerous growths called teratomas, as well as producing chimaeras. "Its unbelievable, just amazing," says Hans Schöler, a German stem cell expert. "For me, it's like Dolly. It's that type of an accomplishment."
What Yamanaka did was to take a mouse skin cell and introduce into it four proteins which trigger the expression of other genes to make it pluripotent. He calls the result induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). "It's easy. There's no trick, no magic," he says.
Naturally, it's easy only for experts at the moment. In practice, the four transcription factors reprogram cells inefficiently -- only 0.1% of the cells in a skin biopsy. Then these cells have to be isolated. But Yamanaka has developed a technique for this as well. And there are some worrying issues to contend with: one of the proteins seems to contribute to cancers in 20% of the chimaeric mice.
But Harvard researcher Chad Cowan says that it will change the field: "The most amazing thing about these papers is you now take this whole idea of reprogramming out of the hands of cloning specialists and put it into the hands of anyone who can do molecular and cell biology." Now the race is on to apply the technique to human cells. "We are working very hard -- day and night," says Yamanaka.
Executives from embryonic stem cell companies were not optimistic about the new technique. Because it involves tinkering with the genome, it could be dangerous, in the opinion of Thomas B. Okarma, of Geron. Getting approval from regulatory authorities would become far more complicated. And the head of the team at the Whitehead Institute, Rudolph Jaenisch, still insists that therapeutic cloning remains "absolutely necessary".
The ethical implications of this development were immediately seized upon by opponents of embryonic stem cell research. "Morally and practically, this new approach appears to be far superior," commented Richard Doerflinger, a spokesman for the US Catholic bishops conference. ~ New York Times, Jun 7; Nature, Jun 7; Science, Jun 8
www.australasianbioethics.org |
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A bill’s passing has disabled hope |
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Posted by: admin on 06/14/2007 09:36 AM
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ONE of the most frustrating experiences of life is the feeling of being used, exploited for the benefit of others while suffering loss or harm. It is a feeling of being violated and, while leaving self-esteem shattered, it kindles a deep sense of outrage (writes Anthony Succar form IMCSA and Sydney University).
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Tracey Rowland - a former President of the Queensland University Pro-life Club will return to the St Lucia campus to launch a new book. Tracey is also Dean and Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Continental Theology of the 