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1. Curriculum expert supports teacher quality over quantity  

   23-Jul-2012

   A leading educator has backed the Coalition's plan to focus on improving teacher quality instead of reducing class sizes.

   
   

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2. Priest learned how people struggle  

   23-Jul-2012

   92 year old Fr Gerald Ryan still runs a parish in New York City. He told the New York Times that he has moved a long way from his “fairytale” idea as a seminarian that being a priest is only about saying Mass, hearing confession and being addressed as “Father”.

   
   

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3. Wedding day the start of a sacred journey together  

   23-Jul-2012

   The wedding ‘industry’ has taken over the ideas of fidelity and genuine love and replaced them with make-up trials, chair covers and expensive cars, writes blogger Bernard Toutounji.

   
   

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4. Catholics engage in the digital age  

   23-Jul-2012

   For Christians, the digital communication revolution poses questions about how to engage and communicate the Good News across cyberspace.

   
   

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5. How do Catholics elect the Pope?  

   23-Jul-2012

   When it comes time to elect a new pope, the College of Cardinals gets together to convene what is referred to as a papal conclave, during which they vote on who will become the next successor of St Peter.

   
   

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6. Strong characters make 'Dark Knight' rise  

   23-Jul-2012

   The tragic shootings at the cinema in Aurora, Colorado, has cast a pall over the qualities of the film The Dark Knight Rises which were described in Peter W. Sheehan's review for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. 

   
   

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7. Feeding the five thousand  

   23-Jul-2012

   Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹²When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, ‘Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.’ ¹³So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets.

   
   

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8. If our life is a wilderness  

   23-Jul-2012

   They follow him there because they realise that their own life is a wilderness. They are looking for a Prophet. They hunger for God’s Word, so they go into the wilderness, they leave the places where they have their homes and the bread of their earthly existence, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan OSB.

   
   

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9. Speaking the prophetic word  

   23-Jul-2012

   We take the flawed diamond which is the world. With truth and love we seek to create in its midst a different way of being, a way which sheds a new kind of light and possibility, writes Fr David Ranson.

   
   

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10. Worship in the spiritual winter  

    23-Jul-2012

    The Australian winter days can be full of light, but the coming of night signals darkness and cold. Storms, rain and winds add their own starkness. We must take these silences to worship, writes Gerard Moore.

    
    

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