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Green Chinese Rabbit Chinese Australians are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit. The zodiac signs give many hints about human personalities. In a modern interpretation, the Chinese community has partnered with the City of Sydney to promote environmental awareness in the Chinese language. (more) |
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Motivation and history of JPIC work "I have come to bring good news to the poor" (more) |
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Missionary Method of St. Paul, 2007 Paul showed that local cultures and their issues must be respected, when the church is being established and as ongoing pattern of local church identity. (more) |
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The old and the new, 2009 Over a centuary South Korea has been a Confucian state, a colony of Japan, a victim of war, a capitalist military dictatorship and a highly industralised people's democracy. Gospel values were part of these transitions. (more) |
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Columbans and the Cardign Method, 2010 Gospel action on social issues See-Judge-Act has been adopted by Columbans working in many countries. It works from analysis to action. (more) |
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Call for Catholic synod on creation, 2010 Fr McDonagh was critical of church social doctrine which ‘fails to give any overall sense of the magnitude of the current ecological crisis.’ (more) |
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Matteo Ricci, 2010 The church in 16th century China chose to dialogue with the local culture. This way of witnesses to Gospel living was recaptured in the Vatican II document 'The Church in the Modern World.' (more) |
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The strong influence of YCW, 2011 See-Judge-Act became a method not only for my sermons but for other parts of my mission work. When helping develop a new adult catechism our method did not look first to the Gospel. We began by describing the felt needs of people and only then ordering a catechism in response. (more) |
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Social Justice quiz, 2008 Asking the right question often produces some surprising answers. Social justice is about reality. Creating a just world means working form some factual knowledge. (more) |
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Greening redemption, 2009 The Church guided by the Holy Spirit is being sent on a new stage of mission. Pope Bendict XVI invites us to let our hearts be 'stretched'. (more) |
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Future Generations will curse us, 2011 Divine Creation is at risk from rapid human induced climate change. The voice of creation condemns Catholic Eco-Autism and puts a choice before us: evolve our Eco-theology as a sign of hope or be condemned by future generations. (more) |
