Keywords: Spirit Of Religion
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
What a pity gay Christians, who might so
greatly enrich and evolve our religious institutions if permitted to flourish, are still obliged to eke their way
along the shadowy paths of discretion if they want to be part of God's gang.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 February 2010
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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
- Neil Ormerod
- 05 October 2009
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Hitchens, like The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, views belief in God not just as quaint, but as a sign of intellectual
bad will. The age of muscular evangelical Christianity has been replaced by the age of muscular evangelical atheism.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 September 2009
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Cardinal Pell called some of this year's Blake Prize finalists 'anti-religious' and reflecting 'confusion about what is
religious or spiritual'. Religious experience is not confined within the walls of holy buildings. This year's Blake Prize winner attests to this.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 August 2009
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Members of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel are remarkably sanguine about the
future. Within their lifetimes, they expect peace to reign after
implementation of the two state solution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Nikki Gemmell, an agnostic, isn't afraid to confront uncomfortable themes in
order to glean a glimmer of understanding. Religion and science may not
have the selling power of sex, but each have indelibly shaped
individuals as well as history.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 16 July 2009
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Last week, Pope Benedict gave Kevin Rudd a copy of his new encyclical Caritas in Veritate. Rudd gave the Pope a copy of the National Apology. I wonder what the radical Redfern priest Ted Kennedy would have made of this exchange of literary gifts.
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