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1. My own personal Ignatius  

   10-Aug-2012

   "St Ignatius of Loyola was first and foremost a man of God who in his life put God, his greatest glory and his greatest service, first … he left his followers a precious spiritual legacy that must not be lost or forgotten." These words of Pope Benedict describe the founder of the Society of Jesus, whose feast we celebrated on July 31. But just what is this legacy? Thinking Faith invited ten friends to explain who Ignatius is to them.

   
   

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2. Then the Jews began to complain about Jesus   

   10-Aug-2012

   

   John 6:41-51

   Then the Jews began to complain about Jesus because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ ⁴²They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’

    

    

    

    

   
   

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3. The nourishing power of sacred rituals  

   10-Aug-2012

   Participating in the Eucharist means living (in) union with Christ in his love for God, and for everyone and everything in God. The Eucharist feeds the life of faith and gives energy for the service of others. When Christ becomes our real food in the Eucharist, we are nourished into a life of inclusive love, writes Archbishop Denis Hart.

   
   

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4. A prayer for frustrated Catholics  

   10-Aug-2012

   
   A prayer for Catholics disappointed by the negativity and division that seem to plague the church today, by Fr James Martin SJ, in America magazine.

   
   

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5. The Vatican, LCWR and definitions of dialogue  

   10-Aug-2012

   As I watch the back-and-forth between the Vatican and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), I’m struck by how the two sides are defining the concept of dialogue and its role in resolving Church conflict. Their starkly different views of that term were highlighted in the separate the interviews that Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, Ohio, and Franciscan Sr Pat Farrell did with National Public Radio, writes Kevin Aschenbrenner in NCR Online.

   
   

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6. NT bridge ceremony, Rocky priest still kicking, Olympic torch trip  

   10-Aug-2012

   A bridge in the Northern Territory is named after a priest who bridged a cultural divide, the bishop of Rockhampton, Brian Heenan, has no thoughts of retirement and former olympic sprinter Kylie Hanigan (pictured) brings the Olympic torch to her old school in the Illawarra south of Sydney.

    

   
   

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7. Vatican warning, Nigerian church attack, Abbe Pierre centenary  

   10-Aug-2012

   The Vatican warns America over a threat to Catholicism, a church in Nigeria is attacked, US Archbishop Dolan is criticised for inviting the President to dinner, and France celebrates the centenary of Abbe Pierre (pictured) who founded Emaus.

    

    

   
   

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8. Death of the Australian 'Dante'  

   10-Aug-2012

   Robert Hughes, the eloquent, combative art critic and historian who lived with operatic flair and wrote with a sense of authority which owed more to Zola or Ruskin than to his own century, died earlier this week at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, NYC. The writer, whose work was as contentious as it was elegant, has been widely remembered since his death. This son of a leading Australian politico-legal dynasty, educated by the Jesuits at Riverview, is evoked in an obituary in The New York Times by Randy Kennedy.

    

   
   

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9. Last hurrah of a lifelong poetic struggle  

   10-Aug-2012

   Less than a fortnight before his death on June 27, Peter Steele published the book he had struggled to bring to completion, Braiding the Voices, writes Chris Wallace-Crabbe in The Australian.

   
   

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10. Sr Mary's rewarding life, doing time  

    10-Aug-2012

    In 2010 SR Mary Carroll RGS, 75, won the inaugural Spirit of St Mary Euphrasia Award for her decades of work in the spirit of St Mary Euphrasia including her involvement with women in Victorian prisons. Sr Mary spoke to Kairos Catholic Journal about her work and her life as a Good Shepherd Sister.
    

    
    

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