Keywords: Second Vatican Council
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
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As Australia's lawmakers consider the implications of the Lockhart review on embryonic stem cell research, the time has come for both church leaders and scientists to pay attention to the 'conscience of the nation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 19 June 2006
Forty years into the journey, commentators debate whether the Council was overly optimistic about modernity. Did the heady days of the early ’60s influence the Council’s agenda to its detriment?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alana Harris
- 18 June 2006
Christine Trimingham Jack’s Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia brings back memories for Alana Harris.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet
- 13 June 2006
Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Bede Heather reviews Jacques Dupuis’ Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 April 2006
Death brings us all back to earth. So Pope John Paul II has died and has left his responsibilities to others.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bruce Duncan
- 25 April 2006
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Tom Butler (1915–2005): lawyer, editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper
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RELIGION
- Richard Rymarz
- 24 April 2006
A reflection on contemporary Christianity
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 23 April 2006
Forty years ago, Vatican II promulgated one of its last documents: the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Many have said that it was too optimistic about modernity.
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