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  • RELIGION

    Letter from James

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 22 May 2006

    Football teams, empires and prime ministers rise and fall but, it is said, God’s word abides forever. True, but the books of scripture themselves also rise and fall in popularity.

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    Dark visions

    • Michael Magnusson
    • 22 May 2006

    Michael Magnusson and Caravaggio.

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    Religious freedom

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 22 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.

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    Soaring angels

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 22 May 2006

    Anna Griffiths marvels at the beauty of Los Angeles’ Our Lady Queen of the Angels Cathedral.

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    Da Vinci's conspiracy of cryptography

    • Michael McVeigh
    • 18 May 2006
    3 Comments

    The Da Vinci Code would be a far more liberating experience for the reader if it was about asking questions, rather than unlocking answers.

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    Theologians adrift in the sea of art

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Christian thinkers have said little about art. They have affirmed its importance, but rarely grasped how it is made.    

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    Condoms discussion returns to traditional moral norms

    • Bill Uren
    • 18 May 2006
    6 Comments

    Benedict XVI will need all his theological sophistication as he negotiates the different moral arguments offered for the use of condoms in AIDS.  

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  • RELIGION

    Talking about community

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    Lindsay Tanner and Tony Abbott recently gave thoughtful speeches about the place of the churches in public life, which merit a reflective response.

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    In my mother’s footsteps

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 14 May 2006

    Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.

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    The service of the word

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    In the Catholic funeral liturgy, we hear that ‘Life is changed, not ended’. These words, laconic and simple, have stayed with me recently.

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    Are we asleep at the wheel?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.  

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    An evolutionary vision

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.

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