Keywords: International Day Of Friendship
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 July 2011
Speech given by Fr Frank Brennan SJ at the 'Law and Religion: Legal Regulation of Religious Groups, Organisations and Communities' Conference Dinner in Melbourne on 15 July 2011.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Falzon
- 17 December 2010
4 Comments
Syd Tutton, national president of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia, died on Sunday. He was a fighter for social justice, uninterested in personal recognition, making light, for example, of the Papal Knighthood he received in 2009, threatening to ask the Vatican for a horse to go with the title.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 April 2010
'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.
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RELIGION
- Katherine Marshall
- 04 December 2009
There's as much cynicism as hope around such 'Kumbaya'
happenings as the Parliament of Religions. And the male domination at official interfaith gatherings turns many off.
The goals for interfaith meetings, however, are ambitious and right at the heart of today's global agendas.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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AUSTRALIA
No 'group' can be assumed to be full of
criminals. Men form friendships out of common, innocuous interests. Laws introduced in NSW interfere with civil liberties and are likely to be ineffective at addressing organised crime.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 01 May 2009
14 Comments
The deployment by Western nations of more troops to Afghanistan will serve to exacerbate the Taliban's rising influence across the border in Pakistan. The history of Jesuit involvement in Pakistan reveals an alternative solution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jo Dirks looks at a new film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 23 April 2006
Bruce Duncan summarises the major statements of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
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