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1. Sisters' practical mission of mercy   

   01-Feb-2013

   Amid the riot of rainbow stripes, Sister Joan Doyle and her colleague, Sister Patricia McDermott, white-haired, 60-something Sisters of Mercy, are dressed down for the dust in Lima, in T-shirts and jeans. In 1996 they set up a women's centre, the childcare centre and the health clinic they set up in a poor community on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital. Now they are leaving for poorer pastures, reports The Sunday Age.

    

   
   

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2. Jesus began to speak in the synagogue  

   01-Feb-2013

   

   Luke 4:21-30

   Jesus began to speak in the synagogue, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’ ²²All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, ‘Is not this Joseph’s son?’ ²³He said to them, ‘Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, “Doctor, cure yourself!”

   
   

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3. The importance of believing in love  

   01-Feb-2013

   When I first heard that the Pope had announced a Year of Faith, I was puzzled. Why just a Year of Faith? What about hope? What about love? What about the other virtues, like honesty and justice? Nominating this year as a Year of Faith seemed to be rather restrictive. Surely every year should be a year of faith and all the other virtues as well, writes Paul Bird CSsR, the Bishop of Ballarat.

   
   

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4. Church programs for poor people in Indonesia  

   01-Feb-2013

   St Peter Cathedral of Bandung is one of oldest churches in Indonesia. Established in 1922, the church has developed various programs such as free clinic, food for the poor and credit union, which benefit not only Catholics but also people of other religions in Bandung, West Java, reports Ucanews.

   
   

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5. Unsung role of French bishops in rescue of WWII Jews  

   01-Feb-2013

   Israeli historian Yagil Limore has researched “civil disobedience” and the role the French Catholic Church played in the Holocaust. Her work is based on a series of new documents from a number of archives and analyses the ways in which French Jews were rescued during the Holocaust, reports Vatican Insider.

   
   

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6. Flood disaster, health battle, memorial for Fr Burns  

   01-Feb-2013

   Flood disaster hits the Rockhampton diocese, a new alliance is formed to close the health gap, Brisbane Catholic schools show the way with ipads and a memorial Mass will be held for Fr John Burns (pictured) in Rockhampton next week.
   

   
   

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7. Celibate divorces, German dissatisfaction, UK monarchy bill  

   01-Feb-2013

   The Pope praises celibate divorces, and says a lack of faith can hurt marriages, a US Catholic editor attacks Vatican spokesman Fr Lombardi over his call for more gun control, German Catholics vent their dissatisfaction with the Church and a British MP says a new monarchy succession bill is an attack on the Catholic Church.

   
   

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8. Death of the Polish cardinal who stood at a turning point of history  

   01-Feb-2013

   Cardinal Jozef Glemp was Poland’s Roman Catholic Primate during a decade of political turmoil, and often found himself caught in the crossfire between the Communist authorities and the trade union Solidarity. This obituary appeared in The New York Times.

   
   

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9. Strategic Missal  

   01-Feb-2013

   There  was much discussion and some anxiety around the introduction of the New Sunday Missal last year. But after the fuss has died down, what is the bottom line on the new translation? Rupert Shortt wrote a considered backgrounder for The Times Literary Supplement.

   
   

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10. Priest and nun's remarkable lives of service  

    01-Feb-2013

    In a time when people change jobs as often as hairstyles, one man's lifelong commitment to the Catholic Church stands out like a beacon. Fr Thomas Keegan has spent the past 60 years doing God's work in Australia, after arriving by boat from Ireland in 1953, reports The Chronicle.
    

    
    

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