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“This is my son” desperate, anxious on the street

Mark Reidy contemplates as his son turns 12, the same age Jake was when Mark met him on the street eight years ago.

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Sister’s joy of doing good for others

Sr Teresa My Nguyen, a Dominican Superior at Mai Am Hoa Hong Orphanage in Vietnam shares her vocation story.

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Meeting the demands of justice

Member of the Order of Australia, Mary Ann Yeats has retired from the District Court, but her passion for Aboriginal justice remains as strong as ever. She discusses her career and the impact of her lifelong faith with Mark Reidy.

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Don’t let them take the little we have

With the two bigest sporting events taking place in Brazil over the next two years, Caritas is calling on FIFA and the International Olympic Committee to protect the poor from being evicted from their homes in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

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The Captain of Common Sense

Lighten up. Find some pleasure. Don’t be such a wet-blanket. In whose writings will you find these timeless tidbits of advice? Those attentive to his actual work, will find that Thomas Aquinas wanted to help people live a considered, holy life, writes Dr Andrew Kania, not a miserable one.

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Honouring the name above all other names

When I was growing up I was taught to bow my head whenever I said or heard the name “Jesus”. I have noticed that some priests still bow their heads in Mass but no one else seems to do it anymore except for some of us oldies. How has this come about?

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A little homer-phobia for men can go a long way

Today’s men must look to Christ and not TV’s four-fingered father, Homer Simpson, for the true example of masculinity.

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Religion devoid of conscience

In the lead up to September 11, Western nations took their collective eye off the ball when they relegated religion to the realm of the menial and sentimental. Studying fringe, fundamentalist theologies is key to understanding the nature and origins of contemporary religious extremism, writes Prof Matthew Ogilvie.

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The case for restoring Friday Abstinence

Abstaining from meat on Fridays was the only way a Catholic could fulfill their penitential obligation until 1985 in Australia. Almost three decades on, some of the Church’s leaders believe we’ve lost a unique mark of Catholic identity, as Matthew Biddle explains…

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Sr Josefa’s life one of true holiness and suffering

A friend recently lent me a book by a Spanish nun named Sr Josefa Menendez, which I am finding very inspirational. I would like to know whether she and her writings have been approved by the Church.

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