Keywords: Pope Benedict Xvi
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 September 2010
12 Comments
Social commentator Frank Furedi wrote that the Pope's UK visit provided Britain's cultural elite with 'a figure that it is okay to hate'. We might regard the angst as a manifestation of the
growing pains that are to be expected in a world of emerging pluralism.
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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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RELIGION
- Shane Woods and Peter Hai
- 04 May 2010
19 Comments
What do Hans Kung, Geoffrey Robinson, and Pat Power have in common?
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RELIGION
The crisis facing the Church arising out of sexual abuse is arguably the most serious challenge it has faced since the Reformation. Issues such as authoritarianism, compulsory celibacy, the participation of women and the teaching on sexuality cannot be brushed aside.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
2 Comments
Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 December 2009
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 20 November 2009
25 Comments
Pope Benedict XVI's recent Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (‘Groups of Anglicans’) moves the pastoral openness of Vatican II
towards a ‘Rome is right’ mentality. This is disturbing and dangerous,
not only for Anglicans, but for Roman Catholics themselves.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 22 October 2009
2 Comments
If the Apostolic Constitution is phrased in overly-confident 'Romanista' style it will communicate a bureaucratic
message and reinforce the suspicion that 'ecumenical
endeavour' means 'return to Rome', rather than the vision of every
Christian tradition being converted to unity.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Denis Fitzgerald
- 13 August 2009
A religious purpose is at the heart of Catholic Social Services. Because of this
purpose, organisations need to be able to recruit people who support
the social mission of the Church, and whose conduct will not compromise or undermine the witness of the Church.
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