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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Sacraments</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT: did Tomic cheat? What should he/we do about it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though Bernard Tomic cheated in his match against Alexandr Dolgopolov the other night.
When interviewed, he showed no remorse.
He is a young man. There should be somebody guiding him.
Perhaps with his great talent etc., winning has become too much of a priority with him.
* * *
We can all understand to some extent how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE POPE GREETS MILLIONS OF YOUTH AT MADRID: hopeful signs of a turning to God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 World Youth Day has come and gone.
Two million young Catholics found their way to Madrid to hear Pope Benedict XVI.
Hundreds of thousands greeted his arrival with deafening sounds.
Yet at the appropriate moments – during Mass, during the pauses on the Way of the Cross – the silence was absolute.
It tempts one to hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISRAEL NEW TOURISM VENTURE: With religious (Catholic) overtones.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Israel reopened the site where Jesus was baptised in the Jordan River to Christian pilgrims who wish to visit.
Since the 1967 war, when Israel captured that part of the west bank from Jordan, the site had been a heavily mined no-man&#8217;s land.
The area has now been renovated and cleared of mines at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOREE RUDD ACCUSES HOMOSEXUAL LOBBY OF GESTAPO TACTICS: Was that unjust? Can we let that go and take her main message seriously?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/loree-rudd-accuses-homosexual-lobby-of-gestapo-tactics-is-that-unjust-can-we-let-that-go-and-take-her-main-message-seriously</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loree Rudd recently wrote to federal Labor MP’s opposing same-sex “marriage” &#8212; saying that if the party backs it she will quit.
She says marriage belongs only between a man and woman, and complains that the worldwide pro-homosexual movement has &#8220;fed propaganda&#8221; to lobby for change:
&#8220;I call them the global gay Gestapo . . . brainwashing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CATHOLIC PRIEST, FATHER BOB MAGUIRE, NAMED “VICTORIAN OF THE YEAR”: Popular choice? Wise choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2001, Bishop William Morris of the Catholic diocese of Toowoomba, Australia, took “early retirement”.
Apparently pressured to do so by the Vatican (i.e. the Pope) for his “liberal” public statements.
In 2006, Bishop Morris, in an “Advent Letter”, suggested that the Church “may well need to be much more open towards ordaining women, married or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MALTA VOTES FOR LEGAL DIVORCE: Victory for compassion and common sense? Or spiritual suicide?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/malta-votes-for-legal-divorce-victory-for-compassion-and-common-sense-or-spiritual-suicide</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/malta-votes-for-legal-divorce-victory-for-compassion-and-common-sense-or-spiritual-suicide#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, the Mediterranean nation of Malta held a referendum on legalising divorce.
With a Yes vote of about 52 percent, it seems divorce will now become legal.
Malta is one of only two countries in the world &#8212; the Philippines is the other – where divorce is banned.
Malta’s Prime Minister, Lawrence Gonzi, commented, &#8220;This is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SALVATION ARMY RED SHIELD APPEAL: How deep should we dig?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/salvation-army-red-shield-appeal-how-deep-should-we-dig</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/salvation-army-red-shield-appeal-how-deep-should-we-dig#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 05:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal is on this weekend.
This year they aim to raise $79 million.
Most people feel vaguely favourable to the Salvation Army and give generously to them . . . .
But what is the Salvation Army?
* * *
It was founded in England in 1865 by one-time Methodist clergyman, William Booth. (He called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROYAL WEDDING OF WILLIAM AND CATHERINE: The take-home message.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/royal-wedding-of-william-and-kathleen-the-take-home-message</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/royal-wedding-of-william-and-kathleen-the-take-home-message#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Royal Wedding on Friday, the Bible passage was read by James Middleton, brother of Catherine
The words he read were as follows:
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOMOSEXUAL MARDI GRAS: For some, a reason to celebrate. For everyone a reason for some serious thought.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/homosexual-mardi-gras-for-some-a-reason-to-celebrate-for-everyone-a-reason-for-some-serious-thought</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/homosexual-mardi-gras-for-some-a-reason-to-celebrate-for-everyone-a-reason-for-some-serious-thought#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The (homosexual) Mardi Gras happened last Saturday.
But doesn’t “Mardi” mean Tuesday?
Mardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday” – popularly known in the past as “Pancake Day”.
It’s the last day of unrestrained eating before Ash Wednesday (March 9 this year).
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent &#8212; the forty day fast preceding Good Friday and Easter, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE NEEDS DEFENDING IN AUSTRALIA: The Greens Party &amp; most of Gillard&#8217;s ALP, want to impose same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221;.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/traditional-marriage-needs-defending-in-australia-greens-party-most-of-the-gillard-alp-plus-the-media-seek-to-undermine-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australian law, marriage is defined as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”.
This was re-affirmed early in 2010 in Federal Parliament.
However, later in the year, Greens Party MP, Mr Brandt, succeeded in forcing the lower house to support a motion seeking “feedback [...]]]></description>
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