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  • RELIGION

    After the parade

    • Kylie Crabbe
    • 14 May 2006

    There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.

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    The charge of secular Spain

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.

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  • RELIGION

    Oil change

    • Graeme Garrett
    • 11 May 2006

    In the biblical narrative, priests and prophets are more chalk and cheese than birds of a feather.

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  • RELIGION

    Moral equivalence

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 May 2006

    A good way to close discussion of Iraq, Palestine or refugees is to accuse your opponents of holding the doctrine of moral equivalence.

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  • RELIGION

    Today’s religion

    • James McEvoy
    • 11 May 2006

    What shape is modern Western culture in today?

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    Women of Islam

    • Dorothy Horsfield
    • 11 May 2006

    Dorothy Horsfield speaks to some articulate and revolutionary Islamic women

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  • RELIGION

    Rome and the bush

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 11 May 2006

    Bruce Duncan looks at the role of the church following the war in Iraq

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  • RELIGION

    The pharisees

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 10 May 2006

    In the Scriptures the Pharisees get a bad press. They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving.

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  • RELIGION

    The crucified truth

    • Kylie Crabbe
    • 08 May 2006

    Truth emerged as a people’s favourite in the recent spring election carnival.

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  • RELIGION

    Human dignity and democracy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 30 April 2006

    Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.

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  • RELIGION

    Violence transformed

    • James McEvoy
    • 29 April 2006

    The waves of generosity in response to victims of the recent tsunami bring to light a real strength in modern culture. We have high standards of compassion.

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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