TFP 21 August 2012

21-Aug-2012

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  1. Gonski would lose funding for many Catholic schools  

    20-Aug-2012

    The executive director of Catholic Education in Victoria said the state government's modelling showed more than 50 per cent of Victorian Catholic schools would lose funding if the Gonski reforms were adopted, according to a report in The Age.


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  2. Teaching with passion and faith  

    20-Aug-2012

    Ben Gray, who teaches at St Peter's Primary School, Caboolture, north of Brisbane, received a Spirit of Catholic Education award for leading and facilitating for change in his school.


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  3. Catholic schools and the Sacrament of Reconciliation  

    20-Aug-2012

    It’s possible to see alpha males cry if you work in a deeply Catholic school where the sacrament of reconciliation is taken seriously by Catholic educators, writes Jonathan Doyle.


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  4. Performance focus on what makes us unique  

    20-Aug-2012

    The performance This is Me takes identity as its starting point and uses a mix of original and familiar material to tell a story which explores the question, “What makes each of us unique?”


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  5. You don't know jack… about the Assumption  

    20-Aug-2012

    In the wake of last week’s Feast of the Assumption, Busted Halo sent Paulist priest Fr Jack Collins out into New York City to find out the Assumption IQ of citizens on the street.


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  6. Shaking Australia's 'brutal sexual economy'  

    20-Aug-2012

    The book Puberty Blues, written in 1979 by 19-year-old best friends Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey before being made into a film in 1981 – and now a Channel 10 television series – not only made a scene, it kicked sand in the face of the establishment, writes Jen Vuk.


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  7. The disciples heard Jesus' words  

    20-Aug-2012

    Jesus asked the twelve, 'Do you also wish to go away?' Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.


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  8. To follow Christ without looking back  

    20-Aug-2012

    In Sunday’s Gospel, we are again presented with a turning point.  Jesus’ disciples have a choice: to turn away and join those who don’t believe, or to ‘once and for all’ follow Christ without looking back, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan OSB.


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  9. Time is a kind teacher  

    20-Aug-2012

    Outspoken American nun Joan Chittister reflected about her father’s death at 25 and his leaving behind nothing for her except his prayer book and one prayer card, writes Fr John Frauenfelder.


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  10. Witness is about actions, not feelings  

    20-Aug-2012

    All of us enjoy a good novel from time to time. But it is interesting to reflect that the novel is a very modern way of writing and has only been around for a couple of hundred years. Shakespeare never wrote a novel, writes Fr David Ranson.


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