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"Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." Paolo Feire, Brazilian community educator |
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THE FAR EAST - MAY ISSUESt Columbans Mission Magazine |
FEATURE STORY
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Reaching every postcode FOR Australian and New Zealand Catholics and some in other Christian denominations, the iconic Columban Calendar is as familiar abroad as it is at home. Each year 127,000 are distributed domestically from the Mission's Australian headquarters (Melbourne is the hometown of Vegemite too) as they have been for almost 90 years to distributors and benefactors (more) |
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Mission News & Views - OUT NOW |
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Passing the Torch I remember a conversation which I had with my colleague Fr John McGrath some years back when he was Vicar General of the Society. "Leo, how long is mission?", he asked. I responded without thinking very much about it, "Fifty years, I reckon". (more) |
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Cylcone Nargis Before the end of the Mass, Archbishop Charles Bo, on behalf of the congregation and the people of Myanmar, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Holy Father for his message of sympathy and solidarity for the people of Myanmar (more) |
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The sexual enslavement of children Josef Fritzl, 73, imprisoned his own daughter and abused her as a sex slave for 24 years and she gave birth in the cellar dungeon to 7 children fathered by him. One died and he incinerated it in a furnace (more) |
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Reflection - That is were you belong In the last year of her life St Therese of Lisieux corresponded regularly with a young man, Maurice Belliere, who hoped to become a missionary priest in Africa. Full of zeal and idealism he nonetheless got into ‘a deplorable predicament’ during his compulsory military service. (more) |
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A Moral Climate - Book Review by Charles Rue 'Global warming is the earth’s judgment on the global market empire, and on the heedless consumption it fosters’ writes Michael Northcott, priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church. (more) |
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Who are the climate skeptics? IT IS not often that we see egg on a judge’s face. But some egg must have dribbled down the chin of Justice Barton on October 12, 2007. Early in the week he had highlighted “nine scientific errors” in Al Gore’s documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. (more) |
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Creation Time by Charles Rue Rev Norman Habel created the ‘Season of Creation’ as a new liturgical time spanning the Sundays in September and culminating with the Feast of St Francis to celebrate the ongoing creativity of God combined with the mystery of new life in the Cosmic Lord Jesus. (more) |
