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  • RELIGION

    Fine lines

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 09 July 2006

    It is a truism that most people today are intensely interested in spirituality, less interested in religion, and little interested in churches.

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  • RELIGION

    Poor fellow my country

    • Frank Brennan
    • 09 July 2006

    The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.

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  • RELIGION

    Just war I

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 07 July 2006

    The history, the current circumstances

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  • RELIGION

    Just war II

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 07 July 2006

    Andrew Hamilton unpicks the arguments.

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  • RELIGION

    Roads to roam

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 07 July 2006

    One of the great enemies of understanding is simple division.

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  • RELIGION

    Thrown out of court

    • Frank Brennan
    • 05 July 2006

    In February all seven judges of the High Court threw out Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock’s ‘privative clause’ which was an attempt to deny asylum seekers and all other visa applicants access to the courts.

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  • RELIGION

    On stopping Sauron

    • Ormond Rush
    • 05 July 2006

    Winston Churchill is usually portrayed as one of the few people who recognised the evil potential of Adolf Hitler and was willing to go to war to stop him.

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  • RELIGION

    Lenten signs

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 03 July 2006

    Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.

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  • RELIGION

    Small consolations

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 01 July 2006

    Like Simpson’s donkey, small consolations can sometimes be seen through the smoke of war.

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  • RELIGION

    It's time to engage the 'conscience of the nation' on bioethics

    • Frank Brennan
    • 26 June 2006
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    As Australia's lawmakers consider the implications of the Lockhart review on embryonic stem cell research, the time has come for both church leaders and scientists to pay attention to the 'conscience of the nation'.

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  • RELIGION

    The god of plenty

    • Richard Treloar
    • 26 June 2006

    The principle of scarcity—the fear that there is not enough to go round (enough love, enough food, enough land, enough of God, enough ‘salvation’) is a strong motivator for possessiveness and for jealousy.

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  • RELIGION

    Problems with belief

    • Lyn Riddett
    • 26 June 2006

    Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.

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