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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Persecution</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES, ADOPTION RIGHTS, FUNDAMENTALISM, DISCRIMINATION: Slogans-overload</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/homosexual-couples-adoption-rights-fundamentalism-discrimination-slogans-overload</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2010, New South Wales MP, Clover Moore, introduced a bill to legalise adoption by homosexual couples.
One adoption agency, Anglicare, threatens to withdraw its adoption services if such laws are introduced – and has written to MPs urging them to vote against the bill.
Anglicare’s chief executive, Peter Kell, says adoption is not a “gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VICTORIAN HATE CRIMES INQUIRY: An attack on your freedom of religious belief?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/victorian-hate-crimes-inquiry-an-attack-on-your-freedom-of-religious-belief</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/victorian-hate-crimes-inquiry-an-attack-on-your-freedom-of-religious-belief#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Victorian government is conducting a review of “Identity Motivated Hate Crimes” .
Its terms of reference include whether legislative changes are needed to “ensure criminal offences and penalties appropriately reflect the serious nature of conduct motivated by hatred of, or prejudice against, a particular group”.
Sounds OK.
But you can’t help wondering what it really means.
* * *
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOD’S PROMISES: Plenty of trouble. Plenty of help.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/god%e2%80%99s-promises-plenty-of-trouble-plenty-of-help</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/god%e2%80%99s-promises-plenty-of-trouble-plenty-of-help#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 14:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday’s Gospel reading is full of realism &#8212; a mixture of good news and bad news.
Jesus warns his disciples that they will encounter dangers on all sides &#8212; that’s the bad news . . . .
However he promises them supernatural and invincible help &#8212; which has to be good news.
We, dear reader &#8212; called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH: By God’s power to change the world</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-mission-of-the-church-by-god%e2%80%99s-power-to-change-the-world</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-mission-of-the-church-by-god%e2%80%99s-power-to-change-the-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two holiest times of the Christian year &#8212; Christmas and Easter &#8212; are routinely ruined by the profit-makers.
Yet the next most holy day, Pentecost (this year Sunday May 23), they ignore.
Perhaps Mothers’ Day, also in May, is a better present-flogging opportunity, so Pentecost isn&#8217;t needed.
No signs in shops, nothing in the media . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANTI-GOD FUNDAMENTALISTS PRESSURISE SCIENTISTS: Sing the party song or be put down</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/anti-god-fundamentalists-pressurise-scientists-sing-the-party-song-or-be-put-down</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/anti-god-fundamentalists-pressurise-scientists-sing-the-party-song-or-be-put-down#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night a bloke was talking on ABC radio about religion and science.
He said something like: “I am not against religion because it turns people into terrorists, but because it makes them stupid.”
He stopped then until the audience realised that he thought he had been clever and wanted to be clapped.
They clapped.
I can’t give you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WILLIAMSON TRIAL: More than meets the eye</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-williamson-trial-more-than-meets-the-eye</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-williamson-trial-more-than-meets-the-eye#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, British Catholic bishop, Richard Williamson, was fined 10,000 euros by a German court for “holocaust denial”.
He had been fined 12,000 euros earlier this year over the same charge, but he refused to pay &#8212; hence the new trial.
The court convicted him because he said in a television interview broadcast in January 2009, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARREST THE POPE? Who would benefit?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/arrest-the-pope-who-would-benefit</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/arrest-the-pope-who-would-benefit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of people, including author, Richard Dawkins, and lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, threaten that if the Pope visits Britain later this year, he will be arrested to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “crimes against humanity”.
Mr Robertson quotes the ICC definition of a crime against humanity which includes “rape and sexual slavery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CATHOLICISM: Is the comparison valid?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/anti-semitism-anti-catholicism-is-the-comparison-valid</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/anti-semitism-anti-catholicism-is-the-comparison-valid#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Good Friday, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the Pope’s “official preacher”, quoted a letter from a Jewish friend:
&#8221;The stereotyping, the transfer of personal responsibility and blame to a collective blame reminds me of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism. I have followed with disgust the violent attack … against Church and Pope . . . .&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLY THURSDAY, THEN AND NOW: Paying the price</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/holy-thursday-then-and-now-paying-the-price</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/holy-thursday-then-and-now-paying-the-price#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first Holy Thursday, Jesus shared with his disciples the “Last Supper”, instituting the Eucharist, the same celebration in which we, today, can receive his Body and Blood in Holy Communion.
Then he took them to the garden where he prayed to God, preparing himself for the coming ordeal. The disciples were no help, falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“EQUAL OPPORTUNITY” IN AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION? Or discriminating against religion and against God and against your child’s best interests?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/%e2%80%9cequal-opportunity%e2%80%9d-in-australian-education-or-discriminating-against-religion-and-against-god-and-against-your-child%e2%80%99s-best-interests</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/%e2%80%9cequal-opportunity%e2%80%9d-in-australian-education-or-discriminating-against-religion-and-against-god-and-against-your-child%e2%80%99s-best-interests#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a new bill was introduced into the Parliament of the Australian state of Victoria, by Attorney-General Rob Hulls.
Called the &#8220;Equal Opportunity Bill 2010&#8243;, it will restrict further the rights of religious schools to employ who they want.
A religious body will have to show that any discrimination is “reasonably necessary” to avoid injuring the [...]]]></description>
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