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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Modern Church</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>CHELSEA CLINTON, JULIA GILLARD, AND THE STATUS OF MARRIAGE TODAY: Does marriage matter less now, or are we just slack?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/chelsea-clinton-julia-gillard-and-the-status-of-marriage-today-does-marriage-matter-less-now-or-are-we-just-slack</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-President Bill, and Secretary of State, Hilary, married Marc Mezvinsky on July 31, 2010.
A sort of “mixed” marriage &#8212; a protestant marrying a Jew.
Otherwise it was a fairly traditional, sensation-free wedding &#8212; awful for those media columnists who survive by exposing sensational scandals about “celebrities”.
One commented, “Despite growing up in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLESSED MARY MACKILLOP OF THE CROSS: Canonisation and the Aboriginal connection.</title>
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		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/blessed-mary-mackillop-of-the-cross-canonisation-and-the-aboriginal-connection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 days from today, Australia’s Mary MacKillop will be canonised.
Blessed Mary of the Cross will become Saint Mary of the Cross.
The canonisation, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, will be in Rome.
Many Australians will travel to Rome &#8212; as pilgrims &#8212; to witness the rituals in person.
* * *
The official Mary MacKillop Blog (25.8.2010) says:
“The Aboriginal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GILLARD, ABBOTT, RELIGION AND POLITICS: The rationale of exploiting irrationality?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/gillard-abbott-and-religion-in-politics-the-rationale-of-exploiting-irrationality</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/gillard-abbott-and-religion-in-politics-the-rationale-of-exploiting-irrationality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Gillard, aware that her election campaign was floundering, started talking about &#8220;the real Julia&#8221;.
Little changed, but the polls improved for some reason.
One change seems to be that Julia &#8211; rational atheist gravely respecting the views of the irrational earthlings who live in religious superstition . . . .
has morphed into . . . .
into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DICK SMITH HAS IDEAS ON POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION: Anything new? Or more of the same?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/dick-smith-has-ideas-on-population-and-immigration-anything-new-or-more-of-the-same</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/dick-smith-has-ideas-on-population-and-immigration-anything-new-or-more-of-the-same#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian businessman Dick Smith likes to keep a high profile.
On Wednesday he posed for media photographers with a suitcase full of money &#8212; to publicise his offer of $1 million to the young Australian with the brightest ideas about curbing population growth.
He says that if something isn’t done soon Australia’s population will grow to one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CARDINAL PELL ON THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS PARTY: Should Church leaders keep out of Politics?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/cardinal-pell-on-australia%e2%80%99s-greens-party-should-church-leaders-keep-out-of-politics</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/cardinal-pell-on-australia%e2%80%99s-greens-party-should-church-leaders-keep-out-of-politics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cardinal George Pell, head of the Australian Church, came under fire the other day for calling the Greens Party “anti-Christian”.
“It’s not my role,” he said, “to tell people how to vote, but I would make a couple of points.”
His points included advice to examine the Greens policies on their website and judge for ourselves “how thoroughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN CALIFORNIA: Has anything really changed?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-in-california-has-anything-really-changed</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-in-california-has-anything-really-changed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in California, a federal judge overturned the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage.
In November 2008 a referendum in California known as Proposition 8 voted, by a 52 percent majority, to ban such marriages.
Judge Walker now rules that Proposition 8 “does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANNE RICE: Deep thinker or long-winded anti-Catholic turncoat?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/anne-rice-deep-thinker-or-long-winded-anti-catholic-turncoat</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/anne-rice-deep-thinker-or-long-winded-anti-catholic-turncoat#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, atheism has become quite trendy.
Likewise agnosticism, and also the pseudo-religion of Catholic Church-hating.
Many books, television debates and space-filler magazine articles have proclaimed these notions.
One atheist group modestly calls itself “the brights”.
Some would suggest it be altered to “the not-verys”.
Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, seems to think her public atheism will do her [...]]]></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>
		<comments>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#comments</comments>
		<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>PRIVATE RELIGION OK/ORGANISED RELIGION NOT OK: Valid distinction or nonsensical cop-out?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/private-religion-okorganised-religion-not-ok-or-is-that-a-nonsensical-cop-out</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/private-religion-okorganised-religion-not-ok-or-is-that-a-nonsensical-cop-out#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics show that about 8 percent of Australians go to church every week.
About 12 percent go once a fortnight to once a month.
About 20 percent go at Christmas and Easter, but hardly any other time.
Which fits in with the other things we know about human nature.
* * *
Much of what we do we really [...]]]></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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