Sunday tribute to the ‘invisible’
Australian Catholics are encouraged to reflect on the lives and experiences of mariners on Sunday. National director of Stella Maris Australia, Fr Tony Cox SSC, said Sea Sunday which is being celebrated this weekend highlights the lonely life of mariners.
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Creation’s great longing-Gospel Reflection
It is often said that Australians have elevated the art of waiting into something approaching a national discipline. We queue with philosophical calm for our morning flat whites. We endure the seemingly endless roller-coaster ride of the season’s footy matches with the resigned optimism of people who have been disappointed before and fully expect to be disappointed again.
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Jokes 08/07
Jokes A bloke adopts a pink parrot from an old sailor … unfortunately, it swears like a trooper. He tries everything to get it to stop. He even destroys the parrot’s old cage, but that just makes a bad situation even worse. Then he notices his mum coming up the pebbled pathway to the house.
A theme 50 years in the making
This year marks a half a century of NAIDOC Week, an event devoted to strengthening and celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures. With the theme 50 Years of Deadly, it begins on Sunday.
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Jesus lightens our burdens-Gospel Reflection
A yoke is a wooden beam used to connect two oxen who pull a heavy load, in which an older well-trained ox is yoked with a younger untrained ox. The older animal takes the greater load and effectively teaches the younger how to work.
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Humanity’s AI future
The recent release of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas, has triggered much interest and discussion
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Jokes 1/07
Jokes It’s July 1 and the start of a new financial year! Whether you are expecting a refund or having to pay back the taxman here are some taxing thoughts …  A man crosses the border each morning on a donkey. And each day, his donkey is loaded with only bags of straw. When
