A Catholic preacher plans to withdraw from his local parish after a gay man entered the community council. Florian Stangl, a homosexual carer of disabled children, received a majority of votes in the recent Stützenhofen parish community council ballot. Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, the highest representative of the Austrian Roman Catholic Church, gave the […]
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The head of the Austrian Preachers’ Initiative has reacted positively to the Pope’s criticism. Pope Benedict XVI. said in his Maunday Thursday sermon held in Italian in the Vatican that disobedience was no solution. The Pope mentioned a “group of priests from a country in Europe” without directly referring to Helmut Schüller or his movement. […]
Austrian tennis ace Jürgen Melzer has denied claims that the Austrian Davis Cup team has no chance against Spain. Melzer, 30, said yesterday (Tues) that the opponents are clear favourites to win this weekend’s quarter final clash – but also made aware that he beat David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro before. The matches will take […]
Long-term contract for Lindner
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FK Austria Vienna bosses decided to extend the contract of Heinz Lindner. Yesterday’s (Weds) agreement means that the 21-year-old keeper is set to stay with the Austrian Football Bundesliga club until 2015. The team of Ivica Vastic will clash with leaders Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) on Sunday. The Austrian Bundesliga table after 27 of 36 […]
The future of Austrian Airlines (AUA) remains uncertain as negotiations between the firm’s board, Lufthansa managers and works council chiefs have been postponed. AUA boss Jaan Albrecht announced yesterday (Tues) that negotiators decided to continue discussing the various planned reforms until the end of this month. Reports have it that the Austrian Trade Union (ÖGB) […]
AUA tickets to get more costly again
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Austrian Airlines (AUA) has decided to jack up ticket prices – only two months after the most recent increase. The struggling carrier, which suffered a loss of 65 million Euros in each of the past two years, said yesterday (Weds) its kerosene surcharge would increase as of next Tuesday (28 February). The airline explained that […]
A parish priest who encouraged clergymen to be “disobedient” towards the Vatican plans to go international. Helmut Schüller of the Preachers’ Initiative said yesterday (Sun) that “2012 will be the year of internationalisation”. Schüller – who previously headed Caritas Austria – said the Austrian Roman Catholic Church should “finally take members seriously”. Schüller criticised the […]
Austrian AAA ‘at risk’
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A leading economist has warned Austria may lose its top credit rating. Bernhard Felderer said yesterday (Weds) the alpine country’s outlook may be downgraded by the world’s leading rating agencies due to the economic turmoil in Italy. Austria has close business ties with the country which borders it in the south. Italy has been one […]
Rebecca Musgrave Wine-makers were more than satisfied after the first drinking of the new harvest in Deutschkreutz, in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland province, yesterday evening (Thurs). After a long, warm summer growers expected not only a high quality vintage but hope that the harvest of over 715,000 hectolitres in Burgenland will make up […]
The Upper Austrian municipality of Kronstorf is waiting for search engine giant Google to start building a data centre for which Google had bought 75 hectares of land three years ago. National broadcaster ORF reported that the decision to build at Kronstorf was made by Google partly because the company wants to use only renewable […]