Keywords: Catholic Liberals
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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Holloway
- 01 July 2011
12 Comments
The current narrative about the ALP says the party losing its soul and ultimately turning its back on those Australians it is meant to represent. The Tasmanian experience suggests the same might be said for the Greens in the Federal Parliament, who assume the balance of power in the Senate today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Murphy
- 08 June 2011
9 Comments
Tuc was an officer in the South Vietnamese army. After the war ended in 1975 he was interned by the North Vietnamese for many years, locked up in a hole in the ground. I asked him how he survived. He smiled and pointed to his picture of the Madonna.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Janet Scarfe
- 13 March 2011
18 Comments
Patricia Brennan put the ordination of women on the agenda of the Anglican Church and kept it there. Like Germaine Greer, she was tall, with an unmissable presence and rich voice. And, like Germaine, she was often called strident.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
12 Comments
Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 March 2010
22 Comments
Tony Abbott had a close association with B. A. Santamaria and personifies church ties with politics through his
relationship with the man he has called his confessor, Cardinal Pell. The question is whether Abbott is a one-off or represents a
larger group of Catholic Liberals.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 February 2010
33 Comments
It's unlikely people will flock back to mass simply because a new
translation is in place. Far more likely
is that, as with the change at Vatican II, there will be a disaffected
minority who cease to practice because their experience of the
sacred has been violated.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 07 December 2009
25 Comments
There is a view that Tony
Abbott is seeking to expand the public's moral imagination rather than simply pander to avarice. This should be tested against his characterisation of the ETS as a giant 'tax grab'.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 01 December 2009
4 Comments
The Liberal Party now contains deeper and wider ideological
divisions than the Labor Party. This will be true regardless of who
emerges as leader today. The question is whether the party can survive such deep differences without fragmenting.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 29 July 2009
7 Comments
Hockey, a big friendly bear of a man, is popular in the electorate. Abbott suffers from his aggressive stance and his image as a conservative Catholic. Both are contenders for the Liberal leadership should Turnbull fall before the next
federal election.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ordmerod
- 10 July 2009
2 Comments
This week's release of the new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate expands moral teaching to promote a concept of 'human ecology' that covers both human life and the environment. It would seem that Benedict is not a climate change sceptic.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 22 April 2008
13 Comments
The secular media tends to frame Church politics as a tussle between progressive and conservative. If that perspective is true, both sides of the divide rely upon a shallow analysis of the cultural change that shaped Western society since the 1960s.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 31 October 2007
In the early 1990s, a young politician Donald Tusk seemed so Westernised that his chances of ever becoming Polish prime minister were nearly non-existent. Now his moment has arrived.
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