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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Suffering</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: Reflections and Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/australian-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-reflections-and-perspectives</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deaths of Australian soldiers in Middle East war zones are increasing.
Recently three &#8212; Corporal Jared McKinney, Private Grant Kirby, and Private Tomas Dale  &#8212; were killed within three days.
We admire these men for their bravery. We feel for their distressed families.
It seems almost rude to ask the unavoidable question &#8212; what point was there to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLOODS IN PAKISTAN: In God’s Name, let’s help them.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/floods-in-pakistan-in-god%e2%80%99s-name-let%e2%80%99s-help-them</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/floods-in-pakistan-in-god%e2%80%99s-name-let%e2%80%99s-help-them#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan is suffering its worst floods for many decades.
Perhaps 20 million people affected – homes, crops, businesses and belongings damaged or destroyed.
Water contamination spreading disease.
The least we can do is to donate to agencies providing relief.
We should give all we can afford – then a bit more.
* * *
Today’s gospel reading in traditional Catholic churches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Answers and non-answers</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/domestic-violence-answers-and-non-answers</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/domestic-violence-answers-and-non-answers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Sydney University social work lecturer, Lesley Laing, recently released a study called “No Way to Live”.
It is being used to pressure the federal government into amending the Family Law Act to make it harder for men to see their own children than under present shared-parenting arrangements.
The study is wide open to questions about its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MENTAL HEALTH, DEPRESSION AND POLITICS: Do we know what we are actually trying to do?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/mental-health-depression-and-politics-do-we-know-what-we-are-actually-trying-to-do</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/mental-health-depression-and-politics-do-we-know-what-we-are-actually-trying-to-do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor John Mendoza, chairman of the Australian Federal Government’s National Advisory Council on Health, resigned the other day.
He says the Government has no vision or commitment to mental health.
Like most rows, this row was about money. The government intended putting in $30 million a year where Professor wanted a billion.
Professor’s pet project seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FED UP WITH THIS WORLD? You are not the only one.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/fed-up-with-this-world-you-are-not-the-only-one</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/fed-up-with-this-world-you-are-not-the-only-one#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read these words, “Oh, I have long been sick of the world and its cares, of its false pleasures and dangers . . . .”
What kind of a person would speak like that?
Somebody contemplating suicide?
Somebody suffering clinical depression?
Somebody looking for sympathy?
* * *
No, none of those.
It was somebody who had found something better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CATHOLIC MASS: God’s gift, our opportunity</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-catholic-mass-god%e2%80%99s-gift-our-opportunity</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-catholic-mass-god%e2%80%99s-gift-our-opportunity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To non-Catholics, what goes on at Catholic Mass (the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Communion) must seem a bit of a mystery.
Catholics believe that at Mass they receive on their tongue the Body and Precious Blood of Christ &#8212; yes, literally, the Presence of Christ himself.
The reality of one’s Catholic-ness must also remain after the Mass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EUTHANASIA SAFEGUARDS: Facts. Alternatives.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-safeguards-facts-alternatives</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-safeguards-facts-alternatives#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In countries like Australia, where politicians and others advocate legalising euthanasia, the campaigners always talk about the “safeguards” built into such laws to “protect” vulnerable patients.
Should we believe them?
* * *
In Belgium, the law has allowed euthanasia &#8212; with safeguards &#8212; since 2002.
The latest edition of Canadian Medical Association Journal contains a survey of one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EUTHANASIA: A pusillanimous spin-off of pop-atheism</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-a-pusillanimous-spin-off-of-pop-atheism</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/euthanasia-a-pusillanimous-spin-off-of-pop-atheism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian euthanasia-campaigner, Dr Philip Nitschke, last week warned the media about an impending &#8220;grey tsunami&#8221;.
His answer is to help old people kill themselves.
He is displeased about the Rudd government’s intention to restrict access to pro-euthanasia propaganda on the internet.
Last week, Dr Nitschke ran a suicide workshop in Toowong which included a &#8220;hacking masterclass&#8221; &#8212; showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PALLIATIVE CARE: In defence of Human Dignity</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/palliative-care-in-defence-of-human-dignity</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/palliative-care-in-defence-of-human-dignity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Sense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palliative Care movement was first started in England by Dr Cicely Saunders (also known as Dame Cicely Saunders), an Anglican doctor who spent years researching pain relief and in 1967 set up, in London, Saint Christopher’s Hospice, the world’s first purpose-built hospice.
Palliative care, by definition, is the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SELF-HELP, COUNSELLING AND SNAKE OIL: Beware secular cure-alls</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/self-help-counselling-and-snake-oil-beware-secular-cure-alls</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/self-help-counselling-and-snake-oil-beware-secular-cure-alls#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of smart business types are turning, these days, to the self-help industry as a source of easy money.
They say there’s a mug born a minute.
Certainly there&#8217;s no shortage of suckers willing to hand over their dollars if you promise them radiant wellness, fame, wealth and never-ending up-beat thoughts.
In the USA, the self-help industry is [...]]]></description>
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