Keywords: Christianity And Science
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2009
3 Comments
Professor Martha Nussbaum's recent book Liberty of Conscience provides a rich textured treatment of the place of religion in the public square. If God is taken out of the picture,
it may be difficult to maintain a human rights commitment to the
weakest and most despised in society.
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INFORMATION
- Andrew McAlister
- 05 February 2009
During Vatican II, which was first called 30 years ago last month, the pastoral leadership of the church attempted to bring Roman Catholicism into the 20th century. Why did the notion of a supreme Pontiff survive?
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 19 September 2007
7 Comments
Superiority and the benevolence of modern science and the health-care system, versus the cruel, more ancient practice of ostracising the sick from civic life.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 June 2007
17 Comments
Franz Jägerstätter has been recognised as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church because he did what was right, not what was easy. His choices xcan teach us something today.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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RELIGION
In 2005, Pope Benedict targeted Australians as world leaders in Godlessness. However a recent book argues that Australian spirituality is understated, wary of enthusiasm, authority, and characterised by "a serious quiet reverence".
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 11 December 2006
2 Comments
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.
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 29 May 2006
Basil Hume died as one of the most respected religious figures of the twentieth century. He was able to balance London and Rome without losing local liberals, or incurring curial and papal ire.
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