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1. School funding cuts anger Catholic parents  

   17-Sep-2012

   More than 1000 parents of students at the 148 Catholic primary and systemic schools of the Sydney Archdiocese have rushed to sign a petition against funding cuts.

   
   

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2. Notre Dame lecturer’s advice for aspiring politicians  

   17-Sep-2012

   Politics lecturer Dr Martin Drum says young people who want to be politicians should follow what matters to them.

   
   

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3. Consuming isn’t evil  

   17-Sep-2012

   Most of us don’t like to think of ourselves as consumers, writes Lynn Freehill. I know I’d always hated the term. I’m a human being, after all, not just a buyer of things.

   
   

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4. A tale of two Catholic politicians  

   17-Sep-2012

   The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, and the leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, were both raised as Catholics, went to Catholic schools and by the time they were at university in Sydney and Hobart respectively, they were both residing in Catholic university colleges.

   
   

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5. Forty days of funny  

   17-Sep-2012

   Fr James Martin of America magazine is author of the best-selling book of religious humour titled Between Heaven and Mirth. He has recorded a series of 40 jokes over the space of 40 days.

   
   

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6. Hope springs eternal  

   17-Sep-2012

   Talent, age, experience. All very impressively present in this light and serious comedy about marriage and marriage counselling, writes Peter Malone.

   
   

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7. Jesus and the children  

   17-Sep-2012

   He took a little child and put it among them, and taking it in his arms, he said to them: “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.

   
   

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8. Jesus’ disciples lose the plot  

   17-Sep-2012

   How absolutely frustrated Jesus must have been. His disciples were preoccupied with promotion and self-esteem. Jesus was concerned only with humility and simplicity, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan. 

   
   

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9. Unique and special  

   17-Sep-2012

   Since the beginning of time, there has never been another person like me, writes Anonymous. Nobody has my smile. Nobody has my eyes, my nose, my hair, my voice.

   
   

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10. Praying 4 U 2day  

    17-Sep-2012

    I asked theology lecturer Fr Joseph Lamb to write an introduction to a resource book on Jesus, writes Virginia Ryan. His final paragraphs really hit home to me the power of parents to influence and shape the lives of their children.

    
    

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