Perspectives
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03-Feb-2012
Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow is a salmon farmer who founded a charity that provides free meals to half a million children each day, reports the Catholic Herald.
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03-Feb-2012
Mark 1:29-39
As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. 31He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.32
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03-Feb-2012
In John's Gospel Jesus says: "I have other sheep too, that are not of this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd." I've learned the truth of that statement through personal experience, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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03-Feb-2012
Salt + Light asks Fr Kevin Doran (pictured), Secretary General of the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, what the Congress offers Catholics, and also looks back at the last Congress, in Quebec City, for some answers.
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03-Feb-2012
President Barack Obama has either seriously underestimated Catholic reaction across the board or decided he could play loose with the trust of Catholics who went out of their way to support him personally and his health care plan, writes NCR Online in an editorial.
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03-Feb-2012
Catholic Health leads the fight for non-profit groups, the tireless work of Sister Ann Halpin (pictured) in Dandenong, Victoria, is honoured with a street sign, a new school opens near Wollongong and a huge turnout farewells the former mayor of Mosman in Sydney's north shore.
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03-Feb-2012
Actor Liam Neeson considers converting to Islam, the Pope will meet with Raul Castro during his visit to Cuba, a prominent Catholic survivor of Auschwitz dies and Ethiopian Christians (pictured) are to be deported from Saudi Arabia.
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03-Feb-2012
As the old year died, so did Polish-born Jerzy Kluger. Aged 90, he had lived long enough to see his childhood companion Karol Wojtyla become Pope, and then beatified. He had also worked behind the scenes to help normalise relations between the Holy See and the Jewish faith and saw – with his friend, by now Pope John Paul II – the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Israel.
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03-Feb-2012
He has enjoyed a stellar literary career, with books such as How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), The Art of Travel (2002), and Status Anxiety (2004) making him as fixture at writers’ festivals around the globe. And now Alain de Botton has trained his cultivated mind on the question of religion, and finds much to admire. But has he gone too far?
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03-Feb-2012
One of the first things Sister Rita Grunke will do when she arrives back in South Sudan is find a village that needs a water well, reports the Catholic Leader.
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