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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Common Sense</title>
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		<title>MARGARET COURT AND HOMOSEXUALITY: for sure she&#8217;s a tennis legend, but is she right about the other?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Court is the women&#8217;s tennis equivalent of Don Bradman.
Perhaps the greatest female athlete Australia has produced.
Winner of all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year (1970).
She won a record 62 Major titles overall.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, &#8220;For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADVERTISING ABORTION: what price the sanctity of human life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.
Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.
They will not be obliged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, MAN-ANIMAL MARRIAGE? why not? if it feels good, why not do it?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-man-animal-marriage-why-not-if-it-feels-good-why-not-do-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, Brisbane Times newspaper reported the marriage of a man, Joseph Guiso, and his dog, Honey, in Toowoomba, Queensland, on 30 November 2011:
“Thirty of the couple’s closest friends and family were in attendance for the emotional ceremony, held at dusk”.
&#8220;You’re my best friend and you make every part of my day better,&#8221; Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAME SEX MARRIAGE: a contradiction in terms?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-a-contradiction-in-terms</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-a-contradiction-in-terms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ taught about marriage.
He said, “From the beginning of creation, God created male and female. This is why a man must leave father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh . . . .” (Saint Mark’s gospel, chapter 10, verse 7)
Christ’s church has always taught that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE QUEEN AND PRIME MINISTER GILLARD: thoughts about the future of Australia</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-queen-and-prime-minister-gillard-thoughts-about-the-future-of-australia</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-queen-and-prime-minister-gillard-thoughts-about-the-future-of-australia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Queen Elizabeth II was welcomed to Australia at a dinner at Parliament House, Canberra.
She was allowed to speak, but not until after listening to a preliminary speech by Australia’s Prime Minster, Julia Gillard.
It was supposedly a speech of welcome &#8212; but that notion rang fairly untrue, the Gillard having shown the previous day her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: something new under the sun?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/something-different-in-australian-politics-something-new-under-the-sun</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/something-different-in-australian-politics-something-new-under-the-sun#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Australians are a bit sick of the two major parties.
They are painfully alike in many ways &#8212; both fixated on getting and retaining power, regardless of any principles.
Many see the Greens as economically ignorant &#8212; and family-wise a disaster.
But where else can thinking Australians turn?
* * *
Something is about to happen.
Next Queensland state election [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAME SEX “MARRIAGE”: a black and white issue?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-%e2%80%9cmarriage%e2%80%9d-a-black-and-white-issue</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-%e2%80%9cmarriage%e2%80%9d-a-black-and-white-issue#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Member for Mildura, John Forrest, has told the media he will vote against homosexual “marriage” because his electorate is “very conservative” and “not ready for it”.
If the local paper’s poll (accessible only to people with the internet) manages to come up with a majority in favour of it, what will he say then?
He will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EUTHANASIA: Do dying people really want it? Does anybody really want it? If so, why?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-do-dying-people-really-want-it-does-anybody-really-want-it-if-so-why</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-do-dying-people-really-want-it-does-anybody-really-want-it-if-so-why#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greens Party MP, Colleen Heartland, is again pushing a resolution to legalise euthanasia in Victoria.
It recommends that the Attorney General “refer the matter of end of life medical treatment and patient choices in aid in dying to the Victorian Law Reform Commission for inquiry, consideration and report by September 2012”.
Those familiar with the Victorian Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CHURCH OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER: Should laws make exemptions for religious customs in clothing etc?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-should-laws-make-exemptions-for</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-should-laws-make-exemptions-for#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, an Austrian court granted a car-driver permission to wear a strainer &#8212; the kind used in preparing pasta– on his head for his licence photo.
Niko Alm said he must wear the strainer because he belongs to the “Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM)”.
His gesture was a protest against letting Muslim women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS WEEKEND, MAKING HISTORY: Michael Jackson anniversary, changing marriage laws etc.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/this-weekend-making-history-michael-jackson-anniversary-changing-marriage-laws-etc</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/this-weekend-making-history-michael-jackson-anniversary-changing-marriage-laws-etc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“As fans around the globe mourn the death of one of the most influential and impressive music artists in Michael Jackson, the iconic singer’s tragic passing two years ago today in his Los Angeles home still resonates in the hearts of many etc.” (RapFix)
Yes, people are making money out of Mr Jackson’s memory. Selling his [...]]]></description>
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