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Students attack Vic abortion bill "conscience clause"
 The Australian Catholic Students Association has condemned legislation currently before the Victorian Parliament which will decriminalise abortion up to 24 weeks as well as forcing medical professionals to perform an abortion if the mother's life is at risk. [More]
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All Saints star's funeral
 Popular All Saints TV actor, Mark Priestley, was farewelled at a Catholic funeral in Perth yesterday following the actor's suicide in Sydney last week. [More]
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Pope an organ donor
 Pope Benedict is a card carrying organ donor, the Italian Association of Organ Donors says. [More]
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Bunbury's Bishop Quinn buried
 Retired Bunbury Bishop Peter Quinn was buried yesterday after a funeral service held at Bunbury Catholic College. [More]
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$100,000 for ringing church bells
 An Italian priest has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in compensation for "biological damage" and social disruption caused by his church bells. [More]
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Feature - McCain's gal speaks with a "servant's heart"
 Palin appears to be part of that rapidly expanding galaxy of “post-denominational” Christianity, where elements of Evangelical and Pentecostal styles of faith and worship fuse into a myriad of unique local combinations, and where old denominational loyalties are essentially dead. - John Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter [More]
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Feature - Reflecting on Baxter and beyond
 Sister of Mercy Claudette Cusack could only stand by in shock and watch as the Bakhtiari family, Australia’s highest profile asylum seekers, were whisked away in the middle of the night and deported to Pakistan in 2005. “It was dreadful,” she said, still shamed by the decision and the treatment by the Australian Government of so many people seeking asylum. - The Southern Cross [More]
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Opinion - Bring back some humour
 It is worth thinking for a moment of all the people who bring fun into our lives. They give us life, and we should thank God for them. What we laugh at we can rise above. Humour and hope are inseparable companions.
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