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Secret tape reveals church shied from reporting abuse
Date August 18, 2012 Richard Baker and Rory Callinan Abuse victim Peter Murphy says he asked Father Brian Gallagher to report Peter Chalk to the police in 1994. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones EXCLUSIVE A SECRET police bugging operation caught a senior Catholic figure on tape saying it was not up to him to report a paedophile priest […]
Australian Politics: Howard Can’t Be Queen’s Man
Godwin Grech this week suggested John Howard should be Australia’s next governor-general Laurie Oakes From:Herald Sun August 18, 2012 12:00AM GODWIN GRECH HAS SUGGESTED THAT JOHN HOWARD SHOULD BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR-GENERAL. PICTURE: GARY RAMAGETHE AUSTRALIAN GODWIN Grech, the former senior bureaucrat at the centre of the so-called Utegate scandal three years ago, struck a chord […]
Why We Need the Language of Hell
In this morning’s devotional reading: ‘Nothing burns in hell except self-will’ (Theologica Germanica). ‘If we live selfishly, not all the angels in the celestial spheres will be able to drag us into heaven.’ Esnath Easwaran, Original Goodness, pp. 150, 175 ~~ Posted: 08/14/2012 12:42 pm by Kevin Miller James Eagan Holmes allegedly slaughters 12 people […]
OUR FATHER’S WORLD: how well do you know it?
For your church’s/group’s/family’s next ‘trivia’ night. (But these are not trivial…) According to Operation World (Jason Mandryk, WEC 2010, 978 pp.) there are 14 countries beginning with ‘A’. Here they are, with a significant/interesting fact about 12 of them: 1 Afghanistan: 48,000 mosques, not a single Christian church building; population 30 million; wars in the […]
Life-wisdom
THE AWAKENING August 14, 2012 Many will relate: Some will learn what is ahead: May we all come to our awakening. THE AWAKENING A time comes in your life when you finally get it ¢â‚¬ ¦when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head […]
Australia and Refugees: the Houston Report
by Alan Austin (Reproduced with permission). 15 August, 2012 Could this signal a return to bipartisanship on refugees in Australia? Will Australia now resume pulling its weight in the international community? The Houston report to the Gillard Government on asylum seekers released on Monday has upset virtually all combatants in the current political brawl. But […]
Humo[u]r
Dinner A man was sitting on the sofa watching TV when he heard his wife’s voice from the kitchen. “What would you like for dinner, love? Chicken, beef or lamb?” He said, “Thank you, I’ll have chicken.” “Not you,” she said. “You’re having soup. I was talking to the cat.” ~~ Fired Pauly and Maury […]
Australians and the Olympics (etc.)
Athletes don’t ‘do it for Australia’ Date August 12, 2012 Sam de Brito Haven ¢â‚¬â„¢t these Olympics dismantled one of our favourite national myths ¢â‚¬“ that our ¢â‚¬Å“selfless ¢â‚¬ athletes ¢â‚¬Å“do it for Australia ¢â‚¬ ? The selflessness actually comes from their families, who sacrifice precious energy, time, money and fossil fuel on a group who are some of […]
Olympic Chaplains: what do they do?
From a friend who is a veteran International Sports Chaplain, David Smethurst: News from the London 2012 Olympic Games Sundays are my days off from Olympic duties. One Sunday I had to rush from north of Londonto Tonbridge, Kentto speak at a large Combined Churches Olympic Outreach atTonbridgeCastle. The original speaker had cancelled. So I […]
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