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A hefty abuse compensation payout from the Catholic Church has torn two sisters apart as a dispute over money arose. Two years ago, Gina Swannell successfully sued the Catholic Church for the abuse she had suffered as a child at the hands of a trusted local priest . "It was just a total sense of relief," she told A Current Affair . "I'd succeeded in getting justice." However, after speaking publicly about her settlement, lawyers for the Catholic Church wrote a letter demanding her compensation payout be returned. Gina wanted the money out of her bank account so she transferred it to her trusted sister Andrea . She said she ultimately transferred $296,000 to Andrea, who also had her power of attorney. From that money, she said, Andrea paid $69,000 for a half-acre block in a small town west of Brisbane. A three- bedroom house intended as Gina's new home was built on the block at an estimated cost of $160,000 to $180,000. However, the carport and concr...

Will Daniels of Macon, who now pronounces Forsyth correctly I’m delighted to announce, wrote a beautiful Letter to the Editor on Aug. 17. He quotes Matthew’s story of Jesus curing the daughter of a woman who was not Jewish (Matt. 15:23), and Daniels makes the point that Christianity has “elevated the status of women in society” based on scriptural stories such as these. How I wish that were true. Daniels could have quoted many more biblical stories about Jesus and women. Matthew and Luke both tell their nativity stories, praising Mary and Elizabeth. Mark tells us that one of the first healings Jesus completed was for Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:29). Women permeate Luke ’s gospel: the widow’s son (Luke 7:11), and the women healed (Luke 8:40), etc. And it’s in Luke’s account of the “followers” of Jesus (Luke 8:2) where we get a glimpse, however fleeting, of how much women were both valued and loved by Jesus. (More on this later.) And it is true that women today have broken the glass ...