The Faith Project
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27-Aug-2012
The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) welcomed this month’s announcement by the Prime Minister that “every independent school in Australia will see their funding increased” under the Government’s new funding model.
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27-Aug-2012
Stoke the fires of your dreams and work towards them, the universe will conspire to do the rest. That's the message of medical doctor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Sam Prince.
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27-Aug-2012
If infant Baptism is seen mostly as a rite of passage along with things like first birthday parties and a ticket into a Catholic school, then maybe there’s something to be said for adult baptism, writes Judith Lynch.
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27-Aug-2012
We should not simply exploit the world as a source of food and income, but also take time to watch the circling stars at night, to enjoy the sunset and the sand and waves along the beach, writes Andrew Hamilton.
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27-Aug-2012
It is crowded with tourists but empty of locals. During vacation, we devote ourselves to things that are beautiful and transcendent. Practicality takes the back seat as we allow ourselves to discover what life is really about.
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27-Aug-2012
Bullying is one of the harshest realities close to parents and families as they try to communicated with their bullied child. And, one of the severest consequences of bullying is child and teenage suicide.
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27-Aug-2012
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ''Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,"This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."
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27-Aug-2012
Pope John XXIII wrote in his Journal of a Soul: “The more mature I grow in years and experience the more I recognise that the surest way to make myself holy … lies in the constant effort to reduce everything … to the utmost simplicity and tranquillity ... Any other way of behaving is nothing but affectation and self-assertion”. Like Pope John XXIII, we have a choice between truth or hypocrisy, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan.
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27-Aug-2012
Even though I am someone who enjoys text messaging friends, the thought of receiving over a hundred twitter messages every day astounds me, writes Fr David Ranson. However, increasingly we seem to live in a cultural climate where many feel an extraordinary need to let the world know what they are doing.
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27-Aug-2012
As the world experiences suffocation, there is hope. There are constant signs of God’s creative genius at work, unfolding, displaying, providing and renewing, in the movements of creation, writes Dr Margaret Ghosn.
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