Keywords: Foreign Priests
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 June 2011
5 Comments
At a gallery opening in Bali, the Australia-Indonesia relationship was compared to a rope with many strands, with art and culture the most resilient. In the audience were Australian lawyers who have supported members of the Bali Nine, and lawyers acting for Indonesian minors still held in long term detention in Australia without charge.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 03 March 2011
46 Comments
The troubles facing Australian Catholicism have been documented in a new report. When people focus on this most think of sexual abuse. In fact this is more a symptom than the actual core of the problem.
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RELIGION
- Frank O'Shea
- 17 March 2010
26 Comments
In Ireland, the attitude of locals to the Murphy and Ryan reports into child abuse in Catholic institutions is commonly anger at the apparent obfuscation by Church leaders. This St Patrick's Day, spare a thought for the ordinary priest in modern Dublin.
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RELIGION
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
10 Comments
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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AUSTRALIA
The Catholic Church has been actively involved in the crisis in East Timor from the very beginning. It has been both a safe haven for the people affected by it, and a political player.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Edmund Campion
- 01 July 2006
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
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AUSTRALIA
- Morag Fraser, David Glanz, Anthony Ham, Andrew Bullen
- 26 June 2006
Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan
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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
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 May 2006
Gillian Bouras looks at the role of the body in death
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AUSTRALIA
On the 25th anniversary of the election of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is still subject to the machinations of Central American politics
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RELIGION
- Jeremy Clarke
- 25 April 2006
If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks
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