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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>MOBILE PHONES CAN BE RECYCLED: and support Vinnies at the same time.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/mobile-phones-can-be-recycled-and-support-vinnies-at-the-same-time</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have an unused mobile phone lying about, take it to your nearest Saint Vincent de Paul Centre and hand it in.
For every phone, they are able to get $3.
So you benefit by getting rid of a bit of clutter – meanwhile benefiting one of our most reliable charities.
And this recycling is obviously good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IS OVER: now for the hot cross buns?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is over.
The whole twelve days of Christmas ended yesterday on the feast day called Epiphany.
New Years Day has happened.
What comes next?
Woolworths are already trying to sell hot cross buns.
Father Tony Kennedy, Parish Priest of Burnie, Tasmania, has complained, saying hot cross buns are a reminder of the death of Jesus Christ on the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONSCIENCE VOTE FOR POLITICIANS: triumph of democracy, contradiction in terms, urban myth – or what?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/conscience-vote-for-politicians-triumph-of-democracy-contradiction-in-terms-urban-myth-%e2%80%93-or-what</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/conscience-vote-for-politicians-triumph-of-democracy-contradiction-in-terms-urban-myth-%e2%80%93-or-what#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor MPs will have a “conscience vote” re same-sex marriage.
Malcolm Turnbull wants a conscience vote for Liberal MPs as well.
But if MPs really used their conscience on this issue, wouldn’t the vote be 100 percent against and zero for?
A vote should be unnecessary.
* * *
Any party containing members willing to vote for such an extreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OBAMA, LIBYA, POLYGAMY AND THE “ARAB SPRING”: democracy, sharia-style.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/obama-libya-and-the-%e2%80%9carab-spring%e2%80%9d-democracy-sharia-style</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/obama-libya-and-the-%e2%80%9carab-spring%e2%80%9d-democracy-sharia-style#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has called on the new transitional government of Libya to “build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya”.
He knows already that that is not going to happen.
Libya, like Egypt and Tunisia, is emerging from the “Arab Spring” more than ever dominated by “Islamism”.
The current leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has announced that Sharia Law will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POVERTY WEEK: who’s who and what are they trying to do?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/poverty-week-who%e2%80%99s-who-and-what-are-they-trying-to-do</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/poverty-week-who%e2%80%99s-who-and-what-are-they-trying-to-do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 17 is United Nations’ Anti-Poverty Day.
October 16 to 22 is designated by some as Anti-Poverty Week.
A Brisbane group calling itself Micah Projects – government-funded, but with churchly connections &#8212; has unearthed some relevant statistics:
e.g. in the Brisbane area:
* 14.8% of households have a weekly income under $500;
* over 10,000 jobless households with children aged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TERRORISM AND RELIGION: have Islam and Christianity anything in common?</title>
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		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/terrorism-and-religion-have-islam-and-christianity-anything-in-common#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist, Dylan Welch, (The Age, October 12, 2011) quoted an ASIO report suggesting that Australia harbours “a persistent but small sub-culture of racist and nationalist extremists”. 
He went on to talk about Norwegian terrorist, Anders Breivik, being “a Christian who described himself as a ‘modern-day crusader’”.
In his manifesto, “2083 — A European Declaration of Independence”, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MITT ROMNEY: would it matter if a Mormon became US president?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/mitt-romney-would-it-matter-if-a-mormon-became-us-president</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/mitt-romney-would-it-matter-if-a-mormon-became-us-president#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Jeffress, a supporter of would-be Republican candidate for the US Presidency, Rick Perry, has caused a stir.
He says that opposing candidate Mitt Romney &#8212; a Mormon&#8211; is “not a Christian”.
He labels Mormonism a “cult”.
Mr Jeffress is pastor of a Baptist 10,000-member “mega church”.
Question: are Baptist mega churches Christian?
Anyway, the Democrats are enjoying watching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MACKILLOP ARTEFACTS FOUND AT PENOLA: helping to understand our Australian heritage?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/mackillop-artefacts-found-at-penola-helping-to-understanding-our-australian-heritage</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/mackillop-artefacts-found-at-penola-helping-to-understanding-our-australian-heritage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During September, a 15-person group of archaeologists from Flinders University did some digging in Penola at the site of the first school set up there by Mother Mary MacKillop in 1866.
They found about 50 relics, including an 1839 coin, a thimble, a marble, a lamp base and what seem to be writing slates and slate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POKER MACHINE REFORM: arm wrestles and blackmailings.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/poker-machine-reform-arm-wrestles-and-blackmailings</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/poker-machine-reform-arm-wrestles-and-blackmailings#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent federal MP, Andrew Wilkie, threatens to stop supporting the Gillard government if they do not legislate poker machine reform.
He wants gamblers using high-intensity machines (which accept $10 bets) to be compelled to set a limit on their losses before they start playing.
When their loss reaches the cap the machine will lock them out.
Low intensity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POPE BENEDICT VISITS GERMANY: meets victims of church abuse.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/pope-benedict-visits-germany-meets-victims-of-church-abuse</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/pope-benedict-visits-germany-meets-victims-of-church-abuse#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict, visiting his home country, Germany, has paid tribute to those who kept the faith during Nazi and Communist persecutions.
After meeting a group of victims of past sexual abuse by church workers, he humbly commented that he could “understand that, in the face of such reports, people, especially those close to victims, would say, [...]]]></description>
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