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Servi Store: Inspirational, Eco-friendly, Fairtrade, Catholic Apparels With A Difference

Servi Store is a unique initiative born in Melbourne, Australia. We sell trendy and eco-friendly apparels made from 100% organic and Fairtrade certified cotton with artworks featuring inspirational quotes. Organic cotton is soft, sturdy and resilient. The pure and natural fibers are better for your and your children’s skin. Our t-shirt collection consists of […]

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Book Review: Subverted

Emily Shaw

It may only be early in the year but I’m calling it as I see it. Subverted is one of the must read books of the year. No, I’m not exaggerating. It’s no secret that I’ve researched a lot about feminism and its consequences and that, in my case, my passion for this area

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DIY Maternity Rashie

Emily Shaw

A recent holiday saw me 6 months pregnant and in need of a maternity rashie but rather than spending $80 for an item I’ll probably wear a handful of times at best I made my own and you can do it too. And my DIY Maternity Rashie cost me about $7! What you’ll need: A

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Men…Women, Are We So Different?

Guest Author

I asked my husband over dinner, what is the difference between you and me? As in between men and women? He quite readily came up with a list! He said that men are… More visual More selfish Stronger They don’t like to share their feelings They communicate via doing things (side by side not face to

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A Fresh Start

Emily Shaw

A new year holds lots of promise for us. A new beginning, a fresh start, it beckons us to make adjustments in our lives, based on the previous year. New years resolutions are made, and often, swiftly broken. I had given little thought to new years resolutions and was caught, somewhat off guard, by

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Fashion, Corruption And Respect Part Two

Emily Shaw

We continue our series on fashion. To recap Part One click here. Fashion and the Church During all of these changes in fashion, the Church has spoken out against immodesty and in defence of purity, but on mostly deaf ears. Sure, at one point Catholic countries banned the bikini, but that solidarity did

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The Changing Face Of Motherhood

Emily Shaw

We are entering interesting times. Influential women such as Helen Mirren, Dolly Parton, Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop are the faces of a wave of childless women. These are successful, intelligent women who made a decision not to have children. They are not alone. There are many successful career women in their late forties

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Fashion, Corruption And Respect Part One

Emily Shaw

As we near the advent of warmer weather I can’t help but inwardly groan as I consider that soon we will see hoards of lemmings following the fashion fads, wearing barely-there clothing that defies the definition of clothing, let alone modesty. And so I began thinking, how did we get to the point where

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Once A Mum…Always A Mum

Emily Shaw

My husband and I went away for the weekend recently. We’d basically discovered that over our eight years of marriage, we really hadn’t done this since we’d started our family. Our children had had sleepovers before at grandparent’s houses, but we’d always stayed home and caught up on housework and hubby had

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New Feminism

Emily Shaw

Part 4: Death of the old feminist conclusion Radical feminists would have us believe that there is no place for the family in a truly free society. They would be wrong. Indeed, the family is the core institution that ensures social, economic and political stability as well as ensuring human rights are not neglected. World

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