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It is a truism that most people today are intensely interested in spirituality, less interested in religion, and little interested in churches.
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.
The history, the current circumstances
Andrew Hamilton unpicks the arguments.
One of the great enemies of understanding is simple division.
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.
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.
Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.
Like Simpson’s donkey, small consolations can sometimes be seen through the smoke of war.
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'.
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.
Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.
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