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Tuesday, 10 August 2010
One of the most agreeable features of Paul Johnson is that he tackles the big subjects. Histories of the modern world, of the Jews, the US, of Pope John Paul II, roll off his word processor with beguiling ease, writes Greg Sheridan in The Australian.
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Thursday, 05 August 2010
Although his book Test Everything suffers the predictable limitations of being a collection, Cardinal Pell is a powerful intellectual and a clear and conversational writer, and there are chapters of absorbing interest, writes Greg Sheridan in The Australian.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
By Wendouree is the second volume of John Molony's memoirs. It follows Luther's Pine, a vivid re-creation of his childhood and seminary days, which concluded with his ordination in Rome, writes Andrew Hamilton.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010
An Audacious Aussie Dream tells the story of 80 years of the Family Care
Sisters, more commonly known as the Grey Sisters, who were founded at
Daylesford in Victoria on a stormy night in July 1930. - pathways
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Thursday, 24 June 2010
Michael Burleigh is a cut above the rest,
proving it with his new
publication, Moral Combat: A History of World War II. For here is not
just the often fanatical fighting
on land, sea and air and the fate of millions of innocent civilians
caught up in a worldwide conflict which claimed 55 million lives.
Importantly, as he explains, his new perspective is also "how the
prevailing moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaderships
changed under the impact of both ideology and total war". - John Hinton @ The Catholic Herald
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Campion College is the first Liberal Arts College in Australia. Like its counterparts in Europe and North America, its guiding light is to educate its students to be the leaders of their societies, both Catholic and non-Catholic. Join College President Dr David Daintree this Thursday for an information evening on the Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts course offered.
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Friday, 11 June 2010
Bernard Haisch is a very interesting
physicist. Together with Alfonso Rueda, he has pursued the idea that
inertial and gravitational mass have their origin not in the interaction
of subatomic particles with the hypothetical Higgs field but in their
interaction with the more familiar quantum vacuum. In The Purpose-Guided Universe, Haisch makes his case
for a physical cosmos that is deity-driven. The principal piece of
evidence he uses is the apparent fine-tuning of the laws of physics for
us to be here. - Martin Chown @ New Scientist
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010
A new history of the church is impressive for its concision, scholarlship, erudite prose and sympathetic tone.
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Searching for the Real Jesus is a welcome collection of essays, lectures and articles, in which Geza Vermes, perhaps the greatest "Jesus" scholar of the 20th century, offers portraits of Jesus the Jew from a number of angles.
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Over the years, the Catholic Church has been in the forefront in providing practical assistance and guiding principles in ministering to people on the move. This book adds to that body of knowledge.
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