Keywords: Second Vatican Council
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 July 2009
6 Comments
Kennedy is not portrayed as a saint. Imperfections such as his
unpredictable temper, his occasional liking for a drink and his initial
insensitivity to Aboriginal Australians reveal that he, like us, was a
man of flesh and blood.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ordmerod
- 10 July 2009
2 Comments
This week's release of the new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate expands moral teaching to promote a concept of 'human ecology' that covers both human life and the environment. It would seem that Benedict is not a climate change sceptic.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
4 Comments
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes.
Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. Critics of Islam and of Christianity feast on
one-sided interpretation of this sort.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes. Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. (Full text of Herman Roborgh's Dialogue Australasia article, May 2009.)
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 June 2009
13 Comments
Many women religious fear the Vatican visitation of female religious congregations will take a negative attitude to feminist aspirations and to the changes brought about by Vatican II. They can find historical grounds for this fear.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
4 Comments
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 March 2009
44 Comments
The parish acts as a beacon in social justice and inclusion. It is hard to see why they can't do this without breaking the Church's rules. Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement managed to marry social activism with a conservative religious life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
5 Comments
The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 February 2009
19 Comments
Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication of four dissident
Bishops has caused controversy. The decision raises wider questions about the unity of
the Catholic Church, which bear on a current conflict within the Church in Brisbane.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 December 2008
9 Comments
Church political pressure works against
engaging young people in meaningful conversation. The value of conversation is often seen to lie less in the search for truth than in articulating positions.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 November 2008
21 Comments
For many young Catholics in the 1960s the defining issue was poverty.
An idealistic social activism was part the contemporary culture. Brian Stoney, who died last week, was a significant figure in shaping ways of accompanying the
poor.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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