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New seminary for Sydney
Cardinal George Pell has laid the foundation stone for a new Sydney seminary to be set up by the Neo-Catechumenal Way for the archdiocese. [More]
What's On - Edmund Rice Youth Ministry Festival
The Edmund Rice Youth Ministry Festival is an official World Youth Day event and an opportunity for students of schools in the Edmund Rice tradition or young people inspired by Blessed Edmund's charism to gather and celebrate. [More]
Ex-gangster to meet pope at Randwick
Ex-gangster, Briton John Pridmore, will appear with Pope Benedict during the evening vigil service at Randwick racecourse.  [More]
Feature - Need for bridge building not publicity seeking
It's time to take the pity out of aid. The aid industry – from celebrity "humanitarians" to professional aid agencies - needs to stop trading on the pornography of poverty and start thinking more creatively. Objectifying poverty and pressing Joe and Joanna Public's guilt buttons are as shallow as the problems they seek to address. - Sally Cooper, abc.net.au [More]
Feature - Fox magic

This inner moral compass is what defines Mem as a children's author and her principal goal in such a prolific writing career has been to ensure every child has the chance to read and every parent gets to experience the joy of reading aloud to their child. This is her gift to the world; her chant; her bible. - Rebecca DiGirolamo, The Southern Cross

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Opinion - Disturbing the peace
When Jesus overturned their tables and threw the money lenders out of the temple it could have been described also as "a senseless act of vandalism".  I imagine that it was a common fate of the prophets to have been labelled as mad. From the perspective of the vested interest of their times their words and actions could be seen as "senseless and warped". They certainly disturbed the peace. - Fr Pat O'Shea, The Far East [More]

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