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Author: Peter Kirkwood

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    Conversation with a gay priest

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 06 May 2011

    Allison argues recent scientific revelations about homosexuality are part of the unfolding natural law that challenges negative attitudes and beliefs regarding it, and the basis for official Church teaching, that being gay is 'an objective disorder'.

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    Stations of the Cross reinterpreted

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 21 April 2011
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    Stations of the Cross reinterpreted

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 21 April 2011

    Recent debate in the Australian Catholic Church over the new English translation of the Mass shows the difficulty of expressing age-old spiritual truths in contemporary language and symbols. One Sydney Uniting Church has risen to the challenge.

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    Paul Collins and the Vatican

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 07 April 2011
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    Paul Collins and the Vatican

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 07 April 2011

    In 2001 Collins resigned from priestly ministry because of a dispute with the Vatican over his book Papal Power. In the interview he discusses his views on the Church and its governance, as well as eco-theology.

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    Meddling priest's milestone

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 25 March 2011
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    Meddling priest's milestone

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 25 March 2011
    1 Comment

    Earlier this year Frank Brennan celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination as a Jesuit priest. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating once dubbed him a 'meddling priest', a label he accepts with mixed feelings.

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    Drawing Julia Gillard

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 11 March 2011
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    Drawing Julia Gillard

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 11 March 2011

    Eureka Street's political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas says she became a cartoonist 'accidentally'. 'I'm bloody glad I did. Cartoonists are lucky folk indeed — able to take all their experiences, beliefs, bile and passion, wrap them in a metaphor and get their fingers inky in the process.'

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    Refugee warrior's voice of reason

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 24 February 2011
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    Refugee warrior's voice of reason

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 24 February 2011

    Renowned immigration lawyer Kerry Murphy explains how changes in government refugee policy are strongly coloured by community fears about migrants and refugees.

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    Theology coloured by clergy sex abuse

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 10 February 2011
    3 Comments

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