keywords: Nobel Peace Prize
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Evan Ellis
- 12 September 2012
12 Comments
St Benedict of Nursia knew about living in a dying world. He was born 25 years after the Vandals sacked Rome and died months after the Ostrogoths had their turn. He watched as old certainties went up in flame. As existing institutions were hollowed out or winnowed completely, Benedict started a revolution.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 21 August 2012
Fr Frank Brennan SJ is board director of St Vincent's Health Australia and professor of law and director of strategic research projects (social justice and ethics) at Australian Catholic University. Text is from his address at Leading the Way, the Catholic Health Australia Conference, Perth 21 August 2012, Governance and Mission stream.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 May 2012
44 Comments
Bishop Morris wrote at considerable length to Archbishop Chaput, in a highly respectful and fraternal tone. To be fair to Chaput, I will quote his breathtaking response in full. It illustrates what still passes for due process and pastoral care in the Roman Church. We have to insist on something better. And with greater transparency, we will get something better.
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AUSTRALIA
- Duncan MacLaren
- 17 April 2012
4 Comments
Rumour has it the Government's projected aid budget increases will be cut to ensure a surplus. Some aid doesn't work: I was horrified as a young aid worker in the '80s being told that an open sewer in an Addis Ababa slum was a World Bank project. But aid does work if it is underpinned by a few key principles.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Dear
- 22 December 2011
9 Comments
The nonviolent Jesus was born into abject poverty to homeless refugees on the outskirts of a brutal empire. Two thousand years later, the world remains stuck in the same cycle. America's military presence in Australia could mark the beginning of the end for that hallowed land.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 September 2011
5 Comments
The Church of the 21st century should be the exemplar of due process, natural justice and transparency. While there can be little useful critique of the final decision of Pope Benedict to force the early retirement of Bishop Bill Morris, there is plenty of scope to review the processes leading up to it.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Chou
- 27 January 2011
8 Comments
Last week's media coverage of Chinese President Hu Jintao's Washington visit focused on Senator Harry Reid's offhand remarks. Reid called Hu is a 'dictator', describing his government as 'different' to that of the US. But China is on a path towards a form of democracy that may be no less democratic than many western nations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 14 December 2010
6 Comments
While WikiLeaks' exposures of US government secrets have created a media storm, the case of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, which reveals much about the authorities in China, has attracted little comment. China has moved towards capitalism but not democracy.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
2 Comments
Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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INTERNATIONAL
- David Holdcroft
- 10 December 2009
3 Comments
The performers, in white-face make-up and baggy trousers, have two minutes to catch a driver's
attention and elicit a few rands. Their skill is as remarkable as the cultural and racial
ironies of their performance.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Leonel Narvaez
- 04 December 2009
2 Comments
Following decades of socio-political conflict in Colombia, we have come to understand that a poor person with anger is
twice poor; that
forgiveness is a powerful way of transforming ungrateful memories into
new languages; that in the
face of irrational violence, victims must offer the
irrationality of forgiveness.
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