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RELIGION

A Vatican-inspired theological revolution
- Paul Collins
- 28 June 2022
7 Comments
A basic principle was laid down in the pope’s recent Apostolic Constitution entitled Praedicate evangelium that is profoundly important with far-reaching consequences for the whole church. This principle states that any baptised Catholic ‘can preside over a dicastery,’ that is run a Vatican department. Previously only ordained clerics could do this.
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RELIGION

Luther’s challenge to the Church then and now
- Bill Wright
- 06 March 2017
4 Comments
Speaking of reform in the church can mean many things. Often it's about practical matters: sorting out the Vatican Bank, changing how bishops are chosen or clergy trained; that sort of thing. Occasionally, however, reform is about seeking real religious change. Martin Luther, I want to suggest, is one of those reformers who was not concerned with tinkering with structures of the church but with reforming the Christian message so that it might reform the believer.
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RELIGION

Why I'm still a Catholic
- Geraldine Doogue
- 03 August 2012
94 Comments
I've come to believe that the world beyond the institutional Church is kinder, gentler, full of more conscientious ethics, values and care for others; that the secular world in which lay people live is more functional and more ready to conscience-examine than the institutional Church. Why then am I still a Catholic?
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EDUCATION

50 years since Australia's 'most poisonous debate'
- John Warhurst
- 09 July 2012
10 Comments
Labor speechwriter Graham Freudenberg observed that ‘the oldest, deepest, most poisonous debate in Australia has been about government aid to church schools’. The most dramatic episode in the history of church state relations in Australia was the Goulburn schools strike, which took place 50 years ago this month.
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RELIGION

The marginalisation of Ted Kennedy
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2009
21 Comments
Fr Ted Kennedy's work with Indigenous Australians brought him conflict with police, landowners, parishioners and church authorities. If you live at the margins, you will be marginalised. How best to handle this marginalisation?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Life of a non-conformist priest
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 July 2009
6 Comments
Kennedy is not portrayed as a saint. Imperfections such as his unpredictable temper, his occasional liking for a drink and his initial insensitivity to Aboriginal Australians reveal that he, like us, was a man of flesh and blood.
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RELIGION

The meddling priest and the Redfern prophet
- Frank Brennan
- 16 July 2009
9 Comments
Last week, Pope Benedict gave Kevin Rudd a copy of his new encyclical Caritas in Veritate. Rudd gave the Pope a copy of the National Apology. I wonder what the radical Redfern priest Ted Kennedy would have made of this exchange of literary gifts.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Adelaide's 'pivotal' bishop
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
5 Comments
The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Kieran Gill, Joshua Puls, Ben Wells, Andrew Hamilton sj
- 02 July 2006
Reviews of Just another little murder; Willie’s Bar and Grill; Islam in Australia; and Lines of my Life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Wintry conscience
- Edmund Campion
- 01 July 2006
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
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RELIGION

Religious freedom
- Juliette Hughes
- 22 May 2006
1 Comment
Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
- 14 May 2006
Letters from John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
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Keywords: Edmund Campion