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Regulars
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
How does our spiritual life change and demand new things from us as we grow? Drawing upon the insights of John of the Cross, I believe there are three fundamental stages to our spiritual lives, three levels of discipleship, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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Monday, 06 September 2010
No challenge facing Pope Benedict in Britain will be greater than that of re-framing the Anglican-Catholic ecumenical dialogue, which is on the verge of de facto extinction, writes George Weigel.
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Friday, 03 September 2010
Ian Brennan, the co-creator of American television show, Glee, talks about ;being Catholic in a media world where religion is a divisive subject.
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Thursday, 02 September 2010
Seven months after the launch of the My School website and the controversy over the publishing of NAPLAN test results, it would be fair to ask if student testing really works, writes Stephen Elder, director of Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010
In 1973, Cardinal William Conway, Primate of all Ireland, faced a dilemma: what to do about Father James Chesney, a priest who the local police wanted to question about his alleged role in three bombings, writes Frank O'Shea in Eureka Street.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
A piece last weekend in L'Osservatore Romano on the female role in Catholic theology is fascinating - both for its content and its venue in a semi-official Vatican organ. The author is Lucetta Scaraffia, who has in effect emerged as L'Osservatore's in-house feminist.
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Monday, 30 August 2010
When I recently gave a lecture entitled Does Religion Cause Violence? at a college, someone scrawled across a poster advertising the lecture a single word - "Duh!", writes William Cavanaugh.
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Friday, 27 August 2010
In the wash-up to the federal election, many commentators are bemoaning the lack of values, vision, principles and conviction among our major political parties, writes Anne Derwin, President of Catholic Religious Australia.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010
Does the Governor-General have a conflict of interest when she is called upon to make a judgment about which party should be called upon first to form a government? It is an ethical matter fundamentally, writes John Sweeney, from the Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative.
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
During the Cold War, both sides saw the so-called "Third World" as a battleground for hearts and minds. More and more, the same thing is true in today's ideological struggles over secularism, writes John Allen.
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