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FAITH DOING JUSTICE

The spirit of The Way
- Michael McGirr
- 09 September 2022
5 Comments
The Way had been a community of homeless people, built around difficult but wonderful characters. It taught me more than I can easily say. It was a world where things were not always as they seemed and people did not fit into little boxes. We had many challenging days and relationships with our guys were seldom easy, but there was an energy that found light in unexpected places.
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RELIGION

Seats at the table: Incorporating diverse identities in a global church
- Michael Furtado
- 11 November 2021
63 Comments
Every Australian diocese and parish already has its particular subcultural identity that inflects its liturgy. Celebration, being the authentic hallmark of a liturgy that reflects identity, must keep pace with a theology that also incorporates the diverse cultural space that the young inhabit.
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FAITH DOING JUSTICE

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 September 2021
7 Comments
In the Catholic calendar the Feast of St Francis of Assisi falls on next Tuesday. Although he gave up on wealth, power and influence Francis probably had a bigger effect on his world than any of his contemporaries. He continues to attract people to challenge the values of our society and to spark renewal in Christian institutions at the risk of going stale.
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RELIGION

St Ignatius Loyola and the midlife journey
- Gerald O'Collins
- 20 May 2021
24 Comments
Over forty years ago I drew on the doctoral work of Bridget Puzon to produce The Second Journey and reflect on midlife journeys. Human history, as I realised then and later, throws up everywhere examples of such journeys: from Abraham and Sarah to Moses, from Paul of Tarsus to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, from Dante Alighieri to Eleanor Roosevelt, from John Wesley to Jimmy Carter, from John Henry Newman to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A poem for Agnes Bojaxhiu
- Grant Fraser
- 04 September 2017
8 Comments
Recently published letters have revealed that although Mother Teresa of Calcutta spent many years in her inspiring ministry, she felt, during much of that time, a profound spiritual emptiness.
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RELIGION

It seems Mother Teresa was a Mother Teresa after all
- Tony Thompson
- 24 August 2017
14 Comments
I kept getting lost in Kolkata. North and south were somehow inverted in my head and I had to consciously avoid going the wrong way every time I stepped out of my hotel.
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RELIGION

Missing Christopher Hitchens
- Frank Brennan
- 20 December 2011
25 Comments
We'll miss his intellectual rigour, self-deprecating humour, unpredictable political perspectives, unforgiving character evaluations, and iconoclastic appetite for scrutiny and transparency — even those of us appalled by his vicious and discriminatory anti-religious bigotry.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Charity tourists find god in India
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 July 2010
3 Comments
Sydney filmmaker Claire McCarthy spent two months working among Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Like many Westerners with egalitarian pretensions, the characters in her film The Waiting City arrive in India bearing a tourist's naivety.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Curry muncher
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On the train
- Mary Manning
- 01 July 2006
Fiction by Mary Manning
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Saving faith
- Bede Heather
- 14 May 2006
Bede Heather reviews Jacques Dupuis’ Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism.
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