Keywords: Clergy Sexual Abuse
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RELIGION
- James Martin
- 13 October 2010
3 Comments
MacKillop can be properly seen be as someone drawn into the sexual abuse scandal a century before the rest of the Catholic Church was. As a result, she might be someone that victims and their families feel drawn to in prayer.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
The annual Blake Prize for Religious Art has never been far from controversy. Works honoured this year include Sydney artist Rodney Pople’s Cardinal with Altar Boy, which is a provocative painting dealing with clergy sexual abuse. Its setting is the interior of a beautiful baroque church, and it portrays a headless prelate dressed in ecclesiastical finery, with an altar boy in his lap.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 May 2010
23 Comments
Many Catholics complained Carl Williams was allowed burial in a
Catholic Church. Some victims of sexual abuse were angry that bishops and priests glorified the funeral
of a priest who had been charged with sexual abuse.
These responses reflect a changing
understanding of funerals in the Church.
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RELIGION
The crisis facing the Church arising out of sexual abuse is arguably the most serious challenge it has faced since the Reformation. Issues such as authoritarianism, compulsory celibacy, the participation of women and the teaching on sexuality cannot be brushed aside.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 January 2010
6 Comments
The case for Polanski's avoiding extradition has generally received a
sympathetic hearing. The
same sympathy is not generally shown to clergy who have
been tried for less serious acts committed just as many years ago. October 2009
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 October 2009
22 Comments
The case for Polanski's avoiding extradition has generally received a
sympathetic hearing. The
same sympathy is not generally shown to clergy who have
been tried for less serious acts committed just as many years ago.
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