Keywords: Thomas Aquinas
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AUSTRALIA
- Benedict Coleridge
- 30 October 2012
3 Comments
Obama has overseen an upsurge in the use of unmanned drones. This is one aspect of foreign policy on which he and Romney agree. But drone use raises difficult questions about the conduct of war, and there is no room for complacency or superficial reasoning.
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RELIGION
- Zac Alstin
- 25 October 2012
71 Comments
The Hon. Michael Kirby recently said those in the churches expecting gay people to be celibate should start thinking about 'real moral questions'. If some Christians are obsessed with sex, it is because many human beings are. The ethical 'supply' exists to meet the demand, and when it comes to sexual ethics, the demand is not being met by secular society.
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RELIGION
- Philip Harvey
- 13 June 2012
24 Comments
One character sings a risqué satire called 'The Ballad of Joking Jesus'. Another wanders into a church and misinterprets the liturgy to comic effect. The puritanical Catholic hierarchy were offended, but Joyce's seemingly anti-religious novels would not exist in their final form were it not for his Jesuit education.
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AUSTRALIA
America, my country, is teetering on the edge of a dark future. We cannot continue in this fashion, or we will enslave our children and grandchildren to ruinous debt; we will twist their lives in unimaginable ways, because we would not pay our bills or reduce the luxury with which we lived.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 22 December 2010
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Despair, Damnation, and Capital Punishment are my Christmas fare this year. During my research into literary executions, I was shocked to find so few cases where they were opposed on Christian grounds, and so many examples of Christian acceptance.
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RELIGION
- James Martin
- 13 October 2010
3 Comments
MacKillop can be properly seen be as someone drawn into the sexual abuse scandal a century before the rest of the Catholic Church was. As a result, she might be someone that victims and their families feel drawn to in prayer.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Jeffrey Nicholls
- 09 July 2010
3 Comments
Every year we mine about a billion tonnes of iron ore. If we keep this
up for five billion years, we will have dug up the whole earth to a
depth of about 10 km. Here is a guide to how human existence might continue until the sun dies.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 August 2009
5 Comments
One striking feature of our society is the contrast between an emphasis on tolerance, and an increasingly
punitive approach to lawbreaking. Shock jock Kyle Sandilands and violent youths in our cities have been exposed to this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Stephens
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
Scorsese’s is a fallen world. Like Cain, his tortured characters are driven further into the wastelands – whether the desert or the untamed streets of New York – by their acts of almost mythical violence, until any remaining vestige of hope or virtue is finally extinguished.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 August 2006
3 Comments
The new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has described IMF and World Bank conditional loans to Third World countries as usury.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 August 2006
2 Comments
Theologians have taken fire for asking how many angels can dance on the point of a needle. The image of angels on needles may take us closer to reality than it appears.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 10 July 2006
9 Comments
Howard’s legal positivist stance limits individual rights to the confines of a particular legal system. In the ‘war against terrorism’, there is no safeguard against executive excesses or the seizure by the state of absolute power, no basis to defend the dignity of human persons.
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