Author: Paul Collins
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 19 November 2010
9 Comments
This week it was reported that the canonisation of Mary MacKillop boosted enquiries at Australia's Catholic Enquiry Centre by 63 per cent in the past year. The saturation media coverage of the event suggests the Church may not be as much 'on the nose' as is popularly thought.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 11 October 2010
26 Comments
Robertson may be a celebrity QC, but historian he is certainly not. He touts the notion that the Vatican is not a real state and that as a consequence Benedict XVI should not be granted immunity from prosecution for his alleged responsibility in covering up clerical sexual abuse.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 17 September 2010
39 Comments
It's not that Catholicism has nothing to answer for, but the problem is that caricatures quickly become
facts. Many Catholics have learned to 'cop it sweet', but there comes a
point where you have to say something. The papal visit to
the UK might just be it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 17 August 2010
26 Comments
Tony Abbott is wrong to suggest that B. A. Santamaria made Australian Catholicism 'more
intellectual'. Santamaria embraced a form of doctrinaire conformism that is
the death of thoughtful commitment. It would be worrying if this kind of integralist Catholicism infected contemporary public life.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 04 August 2010
16 Comments
Sadly the Commission played the blame game. This happens after every major fire and originates in the need to find scapegoats. Neither Christine Nixon nor the others who copped the blame could have known they were dealing with a whole new era of firestorm.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 17 December 2009
22 Comments
It's hard not to sound misanthropic when discussing population.
Conservatives accuse you of favouring abortion, contraception and sterilisation in developing countries. Progressives say
you're a cultural imperialist diverting attention from social justice.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 01 October 2009
27 Comments
Since the axing of The Religion Report, mainstream ABC news and current affairs programs have missed a range of important religious topics and events. It seems unlikely that General Manager Mark Scott will be able to maintain religion as a viable reality on the ABC.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 21 August 2009
5 Comments
There were many mistakes made on Black Saturday and the Interim Report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission points them out. For now the commissioners avoid the 'bigger fire questions', but in the end these will have to be faced.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 11 June 2009
12 Comments
Thomas Berry (1914-2009), Catholicism's most significant thinker in ecological theology, argued that religion had failed to provide a way of making sense of the cosmos. Christians oppose homicide, but have no morality to deal with the killing of the planet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 25 February 2009
29 Comments
The public response to the axing of The Religion Report and
other specialist programs late last year by ABC Radio National
management was astonishing. But the response of the ABC was abysmal. It is time to tell the whole story.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 13 February 2009
12 Comments
Though the fires are still burning, the blaming has already begun, with environmentalists and academics pitted against rural people and firefighters. We have entered a new era of fires and will need to take a long, ecologically sensitive look at what has happend.
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