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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Australian State Funds Rebuilding Of Destroyed Catholic Church
In Australia, the government of the state of Western Australia has given $2.5 million in disaster aid to the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury to help rebuild historic St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral that was largely destroyed in a 2005 tornado. Developments were reported in today's Catholic News. The Australian Constitution imposes some constraints on the federal government under its establishment clause, but these do not limit the separate Australian states. (Background).