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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>ATHEISM NOT MUCH FUN: Perhaps nearly extinct?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atheists have enjoyed a fairly good run in recent years.
But it might be just about over.
They have tried to organise for themselves alternatives to organised religion:
 *  one method being conferences at which negative speeches can be applauded by negative-minded audiences.
 *  another has been to dabble in “humour”. But is not an atheist comedian a contradiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHILD VICTIMS ABUSED BY PRIESTS: And by others</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/child-victims-abused-by-priests-and-by-others</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/child-victims-abused-by-priests-and-by-others#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Modern Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following publicity about child abuse by priests in Ireland and Germany, Vatican spokesman, Father Frederico Lombardi, made an apology, acknowledging that abuse is “especially reprehensible” when it happens inside the Church.
He made the point, however, that child sexual abuse is NOT confined to priests, despite the media’s tendency to make it seem so. It’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO PLEASE GOD? Obey him</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/how-to-please-god-obey-him</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/how-to-please-god-obey-him#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Merton, an American Catholic monk, has been described as “arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century”.
A quotation attributed to him is, “Truth: know it, love it, live by it.”
This saying has always bothered me.
For all his respect as a mystic and an intellectual, Thomas Merton seems to have got it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREEDOM  OF SPEECH? Not if you defend the sanctity of all human life</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/freedom-of-speech-not-if-you-defend-the-sanctity-of-all-human-life</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/freedom-of-speech-not-if-you-defend-the-sanctity-of-all-human-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persecution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A court in Poland has ordered a priest, Father Marek Gancarczyk, to pay a fine of $11,000 because the Catholic paper, of which he is editor, described a woman seeking an abortion as “wanting to kill her child”.
He has refused to pay.
The judge, in passing the sentence, treated Fr Gancarczyk to a lecture on theology. “Christianity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DREAMTIME, EVOLUTION AND OTHER MYTHS: Education and (non-)belief in God</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/dreamtime-evolution-and-other-myths-education-and-non-belief-in-god</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/dreamtime-evolution-and-other-myths-education-and-non-belief-in-god#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABORIGINAL Dreamtime stories, originally included in the Science Curriculum of Mr Rudd’s proposed National Curriculum, are to be removed.
Year 4 students were to hear &#8220;historical examples of different cultures, knowledge about the national environment and living things, for example, Aboriginal peoples&#8217; Dreamtime Stories, that explain significant characteristics of the Earth&#8217;s surface and interactions between living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATHEIST CONFERENCE COMING SOON: An occasion for mutually seeking Truth? Or more of a mutual slanging match?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/atheist-conference-coming-soon-an-occasion-for-mutually-seeking-truth-or-more-of-a-mutual-slanging-match</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/atheist-conference-coming-soon-an-occasion-for-mutually-seeking-truth-or-more-of-a-mutual-slanging-match#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Global Atheist Convention starts in Melbourne next Friday.
Tickets to the three day event have been sold out for months.
It will feature well known public atheists including Professor Richard Dawkins, Phillip Adams and Peter Singer.
* * *
24 Melbourne buses currently display the words, &#8220;Atheism &#8211; celebrate reason&#8221;, and will do so until March 29.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLYING THE FLAG: Australians have some things to learn</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/flying-the-flag-australians-have-some-things-to-learn</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/flying-the-flag-australians-have-some-things-to-learn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian flag at the entrance to Ballina District Hospital (NSW) has flapped itself to pieces.
One and a half stars of the Southern Cross are gone.
The local branch of the RSL (Returned and Services League) has complained and wants something done about it.
Not a big deal?
It might be, if you had fought in a war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS THE WORLD TOO NOISY? What to do? Imitate Mary MacKillop.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/is-the-world-too-noisy-what-to-do-about-it</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/is-the-world-too-noisy-what-to-do-about-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you go for a quiet walk and observe others walking with earphones on, you wonder what they are afraid of.
At church people talk right up to the moment the service starts &#8212; and resume talking the moment it ends.  You wonder why they came.
One can be arrested for polluting public air or water &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROFESSOR RICHARD DAWKINS, ATHEIST, EVOLUTIONIST: Do his arguments make sense?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/professor-richard-dawkins-athiest-evolutionist-do-his-arguments-make-sense</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/professor-richard-dawkins-athiest-evolutionist-do-his-arguments-make-sense#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Richard Dawkins is in Australia again.
He’s promoting his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth”, which, he says, sums up the evidence for the fact of evolution.
His previous book, “The God Delusion”, sold well and the new one will doubtless be a clone of it.
Professor Dawkins will be addressing whoever turns up at Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEEDING TUBES FOR STROKE VICTIMS: Yes or no? Who decides?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/feeding-tubes-for-stroke-victims-yes-or-no-who-decides</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/feeding-tubes-for-stroke-victims-yes-or-no-who-decides#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American lady aged 90-plus recently had a stroke which left her unable to swallow.
She had previously signed an “advance directive” specifying that no artificial hydration or nutrition be given her if she wasn’t going to recover.
But her nephew, her designated proxy, insisted that Catholic teaching be practised in her case, and that a feeding [...]]]></description>
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