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1. Vatican over-indulgence with incentive pay 
   'About half' was Pope John XXIII's reply to a visitor who asked how many people worked in the Vatican. The Vatican is reportedly updating its employment practices by offering incentive payments based on performance. But these devalue work and represent it purely as a financial transaction.
   Issue 23 : Published 21-Nov-2008
2. The human cost of ideology 
   All ideologies, including religions, can rot. They can neglect the view of the human world on which they are based and focus simply on implementing the consequences of their ideas. When this happens the costs in human misery are great.
   Issue 22 : Published 07-Nov-2008
3. Towards a church apology for gay prejudice 
   Clergy signatories to the 100Revs Statement of Apology to the gay community took part in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on Saturday. Many Christians long for their churches to be places of welcome for all people and commit themselves to pursuing this goal.
   Issue 5 : Published 03-Mar-2008
4. The 'me first' election 
   In the election campaign the peoples' choice and their sovereignty often seemed to be defined simply as an arbitrary power to choose, with self-interest the only motivation. In the first week of the campaign, tax cuts trumped tax cuts.
   Issue 23 : Published 13-Dec-2007
5. How to find God in ordinary human hope 
   Pope Benedict's encyclical Spe Salvi assumes the fragmentation of hope in today's world will not be addressed simply by the secular world adding God to its limited hopes. Instead it involves the nurturing of a Christian imagination that overcomes the breach between divine and human.
   Issue 24 : Published 12-Dec-2007
6. Pope's speech gives rise to bigger questions about reason 
   Andrew Hamilton reflects further on the furore provoked by Pope Benedict's speech at Regensburg.
   Issue : Published 27-Feb-2007
7. The baby Jesus and the business of welfare 
   The poignant story of the poor baby born in a stable is a reminder that God-with-us means God for every last one of us. Yet it is becoming apparent that God's caritas is being appropriated for the political convenience of the State.
   Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
8. The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it 
   There is a strong argument that the Qur'an does not sanction the use of martyrdom operations. But it must be asked why radical interpretations of the Qur'an resonate with some Muslim communities.
   Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
9. Christmas takes us beyond 'family first' 
   Family First's claim that it is not a Christian political party should not be surprising. In Mark’s Gospel, the greatest single obstacle to faith is to put family first.
   Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
10. Throw out the baby, keep the bathwater 
    Instead of all those Baroque paintings of the baby Jesus in arms, the work of art that best captures the spirit of Christianity is arguably Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ.
    Issue 18 : Published 11-Dec-2006

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