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Acting on Faith-Based Conscience in a Pluralist Democracy

Frank Brennan February 27, 2007

This is the full text of the speech that Frank Brennan SJ delivered at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne on 29 July 2006. To download it as a PDF, click here.

The full audio of the speech is avalable for download as an MP3 file. To download, click here.

The full audio of the speech is avalable as an Real Media streaming file. To listen, click here,

 

 

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