Keywords: Mary Christ Bus
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's address at the Commemoration of Julian Tenison Woods Park, Penola SA, 23 Mary 2010
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2010
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Harry was 18, a knockabout bush larrikin ready to give anything a try. He joined the Second Machine Gun Battalion on 10
February 1915 and landed at Gallipoli on 16 August. For the next four months he, like so many of his fellow
soldiers, had an undistinguished, brutalising time, memories of which
would stay with him forever.
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RELIGION
- Garry Eastman
- 23 March 2010
12 Comments
Pope Benedict's letter to the Catholic Church in Ireland released this weekend is a watershed in the way the Church speaks on abuse committed by priests and religious. The Pope's letter would have been better received, not just in Ireland but throughout the world, if he had added a few extra paragraphs.
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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
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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RELIGION
- Tim Roberts
- 12 March 2010
31 Comments
An ego-driven, take-no-prisoners approach dooms atheism to remain an exclusive club. Only by forming alliances with the moderate religious community will atheists be able to preserve the elements of society they value most, such as freedom of enquiry and the separation of Church and State.
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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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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 January 2010
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Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be. March 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 December 2009
Once I opened a present on which a young niece had
written MARY CHRIST BUS, with every iota of her
tongue-clenched diligence. If I was a wise man, I
would have saved that paper, so that I could even now open it and see the world as it is, ancient, glorious and written endlessly by the young.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sean McDonagh
- 10 December 2009
Columban missionary priest and environmental activist Sean McDonagh reports from the climate convention in Copenhagen, where negotiators have been told to 'go very far and very fast' and turn Copenhagen into 'Hopenhagen'.
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