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RELIGION

To change church culture, we need service-oriented leaders
- Anne Benjamin
- 24 February 2022
25 Comments
The call to synodality is a call to convert, reform and renew the church’s organisational culture. New cultures do not emerge automatically. It is not about turning upside down the present pyramid structure of the church with a clerical hierarchy at the top and the faithful on the bottom. The church is not a political democracy, but a ‘holy people’ whose mission is to make God and Jesus present and, in a sense, visible to our world.
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RELIGION

The challenge of Church leadership
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 August 2021
67 Comments
Among Australian Catholics the Plenary Council and the preparations for the Synod in Rome on Synodality have aroused hope and stirred scepticism. It is clear that a Church diminishing in numbers of participants in its public life and in its financial resources, and discouraged by the extent of child abuse by its officers, must find new ways. But that the processes of the Council and the Synod will spark fresh energy for change is not a given.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

New points of view found in translation
- Neve Mahoney
- 05 August 2019
3 Comments
Translations have a knack for defamiliarising English and how we think language and storytelling works. They also expose English-speaking readers to literary movements and times in history of which they might not otherwise have much knowledge. Work is being done to broaden the published translations we read.
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AUSTRALIA

Netanyahu visit drives the Palestine wedge deeper
- Andra Jackson
- 22 February 2017
15 Comments
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Australia this week is having precisely the opposite impact to what he no doubt intended. Instead of shoring up support for Israel's flagrant disregard for United Nations resolutions condemning its continual annexation of Palestinian land, it is driving a deep wedge into what was previously unflagging bipartisan Australian political party support for Israel. Australia's connection with Palestine actually predates the creation of the state of Israel.
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RELIGION

Why Bishop Morris was sacked
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2014
53 Comments
'My one new insight from reading Bill's book is that he was sacked because he was too much a team player with his local church ... the Romans hoped to shatter the morale and direction of those who had planned the pastoral strategies of a country diocese stretched to the limits as a Eucharistic community soon to be deprived of priests in the Roman mould.' Frank Brennan launches Benedict, Me and the Cardinals Three by Bishop William Morris.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Prodigal father
- Various
- 31 May 2011
2 Comments
All day, every day since you have gone, I stand on the road shading my eyes from daylight's harsh reality — you are gone, too far away for me to see. How harsh is your reality?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

What Eve really thought
- Various
- 23 November 2010
2 Comments
Eve isn't sorry that she bit .. into the temptation of the fruit ... She had bloomed. Ripened; tasted truth.
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INTERNATIONAL

Freedom Flotilla and Israeli 'pirates'
- Binoy Kampmark
- 02 June 2010
31 Comments
Turkey has condemned the attacks on a flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza as piracy. Branding activists as terrorists and denying the human situation in Gaza will not help an Israeli cause that is proving increasingly alienating.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Poems about Gaza
- Anne Benjamin and Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 03 February 2009
1 Comment
phosphorus .. above empty streets .. politicians promise .. vengeance will bring peace
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The joker in the pack—top ten limericks
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
8 Comments
In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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Keywords: Anne Benjamin