POPE Benedict XVI has apologised to people sexually abused by members of the clergy in Australia.
He raised the issue during a ceremony to consecrate the altar of St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, where the Pope has been participating in World Youth Day (WYD) activities.
“Here I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy and religious in this country,” Pope Benedict said in his homily.
“Indeed I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured and I assure them that, as their pastor, I too share in their suffering.
“These misdeeds, which constitute so grave a betrayal of trust, deserve unequivocal condemnation. They have caused great pain, they have damaged the church’s witness.”
He called on his audience of 3400 people, including Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell, bishops, seminarians and religious and school groups, to work together in “combating this evil”.
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U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of fostering a flexible, organic archive of human genetic information.
The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the process of deciphering genome sequences.
According to Andrew Su, whose report of the project appears this week in the scientific journal PLoS Biology, the researchers were emboldened to develop the Wiki by Wikipedia’s “Be Bold” ethos.
To speed up the development of the ‘Gene Wiki’, the researchers developed a computer program that downloads information from existing databases, formats it, and posts the information as a ‘stub’ article on Wikipedia.
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I haven’t listened to a lot of Out There radio before but seeing as the catchy title kind of had a resonance with my current Zombie theme… I thought I’d give it a whirl. Interesting podcast but you have to be patient and get past the hokey kind of overly long intro…which is befitting of college radio (yes I’ve done my time too). But it;s fun – worth listening to – and maybe even putting in your fav files. It’s Athens, Georgia y’all!!
Alien Communications, Death Rays and Free Energy for all! In this episode of …
Alvaro Alvarez
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graphite and pastel 330 x 250 mm
Exhibition Dates:
Wednesday 16 July – Saturday 23 August 2008
APA Gallery
24 High Street
Northcote VIC 3070
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm
‘Short Stories, Tall Tales, and the Way They Wore Them’ is a group exhibition at Arts Project Australia, to be opened by Rose Chong, on Tuesday the 15th of July 2008. The exhibiting artists explore narrative through the figure and costume in art.
All the works subtly segue between fact and fiction; the short story and the tall tale. The figure is turned to, and dressed, in a way that moves us from reading the work as an individual portrait about a particular sitter. Instead, these figures come to symbolize, like characters in a story, something universal; expressing ideas and broaching themes much broader then themselves.
Artists: Maryanne Agius, Alvaro Alvarez, Samantha Ashdown, Monica Burns, Kieren Carol, Alan Constable, Leo Cussen, Brigid Hanrahan, Kelvin Heffernan, Paul Hodges, Adrian Lazzaro, Anne Lynch, Miranda Millane, Jodie Noble, Robin Plowman, Lisa Reid, Barbara Veheary, Terry Williams and Steven Worrell.
www.artsproject.org.au
Read Regina Marler’s New York Times review of Zombie books for teenagers.
“Buried in the passing scenery of this summer’s two teenager zombie novels are descriptions of a zombie bag lunch. Carrot sticks, mostly — in both novels — with a little yogurt or fruit on the side. Like adolescent girls across America, zombies seem susceptible to eating disorders — and not just in their taste for human brains. In Daniel Waters’s first novel, “Generation Dead,” the carrot sticks are a gateway food: the zombie girl who gnaws them wants to feel alive again. But the carrots in Brian James’s “Zombie Blondes” are instruments of oppression. The popular girls at Maplecrest High will never accept a newcomer, Hannah Sanders, until she conforms to their dress code, their hair color and their joyless low-cal lunches”.
By REGINA MARLER
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