Keywords: Religious Devotion
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RELIGION
Ramadan is supposed to fine tune your soul, weaken the ties binding you to your physical appetites and test your religiosity. This month unites Muslims around the globe in an envelope of piety and mercy. At least that's the theory. In reality, for most of us Muslims Ramadan is the month of massive weight gain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 31 May 2013
It wasn't so much a phone call as a lifeline — the day the fertility clinic called me with news of my pregnancy. After six years of hoping, the life my husband and I had all but given up on was to be ours. At that same time, radio host Sheridan Voysey and his wife Merryn were facing a more heartbreaking outcome.
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RELIGION
- Kristina Keneally
- 23 November 2012
47 Comments
My Catholic faith has given me great values, and guided me through the best and worst periods of my life. As a mother of children being raised Catholic, who go to Catholic schools, who are old enough to watch the news and understand, I don't know how to explain to them why a Royal Commission is being called.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 April 2012
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'This Jesuit network will not succeed where Copenhagen failed, but it is an incremental contribution to one of the great moral challenges of our age [climate change].' Text from Frank Brennan's paper 'An interpretation and a raincheck on GC 35's call to develop international and interprovincial collaboration', Boston College, 28 April 2012.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
it’s a god of sugar, a god of shallow forgives, it’s a god of stained truth and glass asunder.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
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In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience?
Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 14 September 2009
24 Comments
Tony
Abbott has described the New Testament as
'the core document of our civilisation'. As a South Asian Muslim, I'd like to think many Christians would be as incensed by
attempts to treat Christianity as uniquely Western as I am when Islam is treated as uniquely Arab.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes. Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. (Full text of Herman Roborgh's Dialogue Australasia article, May 2009.)
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 August 2008
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If we show an interest in the lives of soapies characters, we may be seen as aesthetically and culturally dim. People whose religious imagination expresses itself in exuberant devotional practices are often seen in the same way.
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AUSTRALIA
WYD pilgrims, like Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, know that in the act of travelling, they will learn things about themselves that they could never learn from books and sermons. Pilgrims are warriors whose battles are internal and spiritual.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 25 June 2008
4 Comments
A teacher at a Catholic college joked that students turned to Madonna — the pop icon, not the religious one — for spiritual inspiration. Western society may seem to trivialise religion, but a culture of authenticity has developed in which people seek their own way and deepest fulfilment.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 August 2007
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This year marks the centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe, the Basque Jesuit who worked in Japan and later became the Jesuits' Superior General. He was present at Hiroshima on 6 August 6 1945, the day on which the atomic bomb was dropped.
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