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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Faith</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>GILLARD, GOD AND PROSPERITY: Australia and its priorities reassessed</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/gillard-god-and-prosperity-australia-and-its-priorities-reassessed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each state of Australia has an official motto.
Victoria’s motto is “Peace and Prosperity”.
* * *
Prosperity?
Last week, caretaker-Prime Minister Julia Gillard told the National Press Club, “We have begun building a strong foundation for our future prosperity investing in 21st century infrastructure . . . .”
Clutching desperately at whatever straw might help her survive as PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OBJECTIVE VIEWS OF “SECULAR” CULTURE: A wake-up call for Australia?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/objective-views-of-%e2%80%9csecular%e2%80%9d-culture-a-wake-up-call-for-australia</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In so-called modern so-called democracies, we celebrate or bewail the so-called decline and death of religion.
Meanwhile, what are others saying?
Here are a couple of quotes made recently in a speech by Cardinal George Pell.
* * *
(1) From Zhao Xiao, currently Professor of Economics, Beijing University of Science and Technology:
&#8220;These days, Chinese people do not believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN MARINES BOUND FOR AFGHANISTAN UNDERGO BAPTISM: Merely a feel-good social nicety or an essential?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/american-marines-bound-for-afghanistan-undergo-baptism-merely-a-feel-good-social-nicety-or-an-essential-to-finding-god</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/american-marines-bound-for-afghanistan-undergo-baptism-merely-a-feel-good-social-nicety-or-an-essential-to-finding-god#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, 29 US Marines were baptised by Navy Chaplain William Hlavin in the ocean near Camp Pendleton.
All were volunteers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, heading for duty in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province.
Their Battalion Commander commented, &#8220;The spiritual and religious foundation we&#8217;re able to develop here allows us to perform our job the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“THE REAL JULIA GILLARD STANDS UP” (Yesterday’s headline): But is there a real Julia Gillard?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/%e2%80%9cthe-real-julia-gillard-stands-up%e2%80%9d-yesterday%e2%80%99s-headline-but-is-there-a-real-julia-gillard</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“As your life rolls out in front of you, you’re the one who has to be in the driver’s seat,” said Prime Minister JG, introducing her new “script-free” campaign-image.
So is it the real Julia standing this time?
Can an atheist be real anyway?
Can an atheist stand for anything?
If there was no God, would there be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SELF ESTEEM: Much sought after. Perhaps over-rated?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/self-esteem-much-sought-after-but-perhaps-over-rated</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/self-esteem-much-sought-after-but-perhaps-over-rated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, is highly regarded for his life spent fighting race hatred.
On becoming President, he said, “The task at hand will not be easy. But you have mandated us to change South Africa from a country where the majority lived with little hope, to one where they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA, COLOMBIA, NATIONS WITH PROBLEMS: Snapping out of the nightmare</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/australia-colombia-nations-with-problems-snapping-out-of-the-nightmare</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/australia-colombia-nations-with-problems-snapping-out-of-the-nightmare#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colombia, South America’s only nation with both a Pacific and an Atlantic coastline &#8212; home of the best coffee grown in the world – was for centuries a Catholic nation.
In the 1990s that changed. God was dethroned by an anti-Catholic government.
Things went from bad to worse – drug lords taking over, terrorist attacks, kidnappings, murder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BARKER AND ABBOTT AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: In a real war there is no fence to sit on.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/barker-and-abbott-and-religious-persecution-in-politics-in-a-real-war-there-is-no-fence-to-sit-on</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/barker-and-abbott-and-religious-persecution-in-politics-in-a-real-war-there-is-no-fence-to-sit-on#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition Coalition has dis-endorsed its election candidate for the NSW seat of Chifley.
“He’s gone. He’s finished,” says party leader, Mr Abbott.
What did he do?
The candidate, David Barker, said that Labor’s endorsement of a Muslim, Ed Husic, for the seat was “moving Australia closer to becoming a Muslim country”.
In another statement DB alluded also to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELECTION TIME: Trust in God. But with politicians, watch your back.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/election-time-trust-in-god-but-with-politicians-watch-your-back</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/election-time-trust-in-god-but-with-politicians-watch-your-back#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make something good happen, you need two things: good motives and lots of determination
To make something bad happen, you need two things: bad motives and lots of determination.
To make anything at all happen, you’ll want determination (perseverance, persistence, toughness)
Jesus told a story about this. It’s the Gospel reading in traditional Catholic churches for today.
* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PHILLIP ISLAND RESORT CASE: Is “discrimination” against homosexual behaviours sometimes justifiable?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-phillip-island-resort-case-is-%e2%80%9cdiscrimination%e2%80%9d-against-homosexual-behaviours-sometimes-justifiable</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-phillip-island-resort-case-is-%e2%80%9cdiscrimination%e2%80%9d-against-homosexual-behaviours-sometimes-justifiable#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owners of the Phillip Island Adventure Resort have refused to hire their camping facilities to a group called WayOut, which plans a get-together for homosexually-inclined youth.
They refused because promoting homosexual relationships goes against their religion.
Now they must defend their action before a Tribunal.
The WayOut group is seeking a ruling that business-people may not so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Authoritative but flawed. But not without hope.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-catholic-church-authoritative-but-flawed-but-not-without-hope</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-catholic-church-authoritative-but-flawed-but-not-without-hope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel reading in traditional Catholic churches today:
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit, and evil trees bring [...]]]></description>
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