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RELIGION
- Miles Pattenden
- 07 May 2025
In an age of transient politics and market-driven morality, the papacy remains a rare constant. The pope has enduring significance as a global moral figurehead whose authority lies not in power but in the stubborn articulation of what ought to be.
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 05 May 2025
As the cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, the centuries-old conclave process proceeds with solemnity and speed. But beneath the tradition lies the question of whether a closed, clerical system still reflects the needs of a diverse, divided, and global Church.
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RELIGION
- Miles Pattenden
- 01 May 2025
As cardinals gather in Rome, they must confront declining trust, shifting global power, financial scandals, and unresolved doctrinal divides within the Church. More than a choice of leader, this moment is a reckoning with modernity and the future direction of the Church itself.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 01 May 2025
Three elections, three systems, one shared question: what kind of person should lead? As voters and cardinals choose their next leaders, attention turns from policy to personality — to character, courage, and conviction. In an age of division, the qualities that guide a life may yet decide the fate of nations.
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RELIGION
- Michael McVeigh
- 30 April 2025
Pope Francis’ pontificate was marked not by triumph but by a humble reckoning with failure. In a Church marked by scandal, division, and decline, he didn’t reverse the tide but pointed to another measure of faithfulness: mercy over mastery, presence over power, and the courage to fail, not downward, but upward.
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 30 April 2025
Faith, once a quiet undercurrent in Australian elections, is now entangled in questions of ethnic identity, foreign policy and cultural grievance. Religion has returned to the centre of political life, only to find itself more divided, and more contested, than ever before.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 23 April 2025
Francis was a pope prepared to blur the edges of doctrine, or at least its application, opening the doors of the Church to all those seeking love, mercy and forgiveness. He never doubted God’s capacity to love and forgive all who sought that love and forgiveness. He maintained the certainty, not of doctrine but of the simple piety of believers.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 April 2025
In a world that sees refugees and immigrants as a threat, disregards the victims of war, trashes the environment, rewards self-interest and cheapens religious faith, Pope Francis wept with those mistreated, pleaded their cause and radiated joy and hope.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 April 2025
In the lead up to Easter, the story of a man welcomed with palms and crucified days later takes on renewed urgency. In an age of closed borders and hardened politics, the Easter message casts a sharp light on how we treat the stranger, the exile, and the dispossessed.
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RELIGION
- Danielle Terceiro
- 16 April 2025
Even in a world marked by war, exile and devastation, the Easter story offers a defiant hope: that ruin is not the end. Rooted in a vision of restoration beyond history’s violence, it speaks to a yearning deeper than despair — for justice, for peace, for a feast with no end.
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 10 April 2025
As Australia approaches a federal election, the bishops have offered a statement of gentle encouragement themed around hope. Yet in its caution and generality, it raises questions about missed opportunities for moral clarity, national relevance, and a more engaged voice in public life.
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RELIGION
- Vincent Long Van Nguyen
- 01 April 2025
As war rages, the climate suffers and inequality grows, the ancient idea of Jubilee feels newly urgent. Can an economy built on profit give way to one rooted in justice? Can the Church trade power for presence? Renewal may begin where the poor, the displaced and the earth come together.
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