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1. 50 things to love about religion  

   30-Nov-2012

   As a corrective to the familiar diet of outrage, scandals and accusation associated with most stories about faith and religion, the Huffington Post website recently asked its readers to nominate what they liked about religion. The editors received hundreds of responses from an enlightened group of people who have experienced spiritual life in countless positive ways. Read on for the list of everything there is to love about spiritual beliefs on earth and in Heaven.

   
   

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2. Jesus’ return in glory  

   30-Nov-2012

   

   Luke 21:25-28,34-36

   “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day does not catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.”

   
   

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3. Grace is more familiar than we imagine  

   30-Nov-2012

   Although people might ponder over the meaning of grace, we are, in fact, very familiar with the word grace because we use it constantly in one of our most common and dearly loved prayers, the Hail Mary. In this prayer, Mary is identified as being "full of grace", writes Philip Wilson, the Archbishop of Adelaide.

   
   

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4. History and impact of Catholic Church in India  

   30-Nov-2012

   In this video by Loyola Productions Indian Jesuit Fr Vinayak Jadav, a lecturer in Gujarati literature and journalism, examines the history and impact of the Catholic Church in India. He talks about the church's origins, its works and its current realities.

   
   

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5. Priests and the life of celibacy  

   30-Nov-2012

   A few years ago Desmond Zwar began researching a book into how priests dealt with the requirement that they be celibate. Hep laced an advertisement in The Swag - the journal of the National Council of Priests - seeking priests who would be willing to talk to me about their relationship with celibacy, whether they found it easy or difficult to maintain. About eight priests responded. He interviewed them by phone, taped the conversations and returned the edited version to each priest for review. This is an edited extract of his conversations with four of them, in The Age.

    

   
   

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6. Convent's grant sold, charities plea, relic pilgrimage  

   30-Nov-2012

   Two NSW convents are in the news: one on the south coast is sold, and another on the north coast (pictured) receives a grant to assess its artefacts; charities plead to the federal government for money funds, and the relic of St Francis Xavier makes its way to Parramatta in Sydney's west.

   
   

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7. Brazilian strike, Bible injunction, Swiss Guard  

   30-Nov-2012

   Staff and students at a Brazilian university go on strike against a decision by the Cardinal in charge, Hindu extremists in India lash out against Christians, an American Bible publisher wins an injunction against a Christian college and the Swiss Guard (pictured) launches a Christmas music album.

    

   
   

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8. Tireless campaigner for the world's poor   

   30-Nov-2012

   Mildred Nevile was a woman of humility and faith,  one who gave her considerable gifts of leadership and intelligence and persistence  – as well as her connections to the most connected in Britain – without stinting to the poor of the world. This is the obituary of a most remarkable women, by Hugh O'Shaugnessy  in The Independent.

   
   

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9. Even the enemy general he kidnapped forgave him  

   30-Nov-2012

   What a life… from the monasteries of Mt Athos to the far reaches of Moldavia, the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor ranged across the world. His life was that of a latter day medieval knight, an adventurer who kidnapped a German general, walked through a Byzantium real and imagined, and ended up friends with dukes and dustmen. His life has been chronicled by long-time friend, Artemis Cooper, whose work was reviewed for The Telegraph by Charles Moore.

   
   

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10. Journeying with a 'good mate'  

    30-Nov-2012

    The son of a New Zealand sheep farmer who joined the Jesuits in the 1970's has spent the last three months travelling Australia with a relic of a Jesuit co-founder. Fr Richard Shortall, a member of the Xavier College, Melbourne community, is the custodian of the relic of St Francis Xavier on its Australian Pilgrimage of Grace, reports The Catholic Leader.
    

    
    

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