Keywords: Australian Church
-
EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 January 2011
4 Comments
READ MORE 
-
EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 January 2011
1 Comment
Eureka Street’s founding publisher Michael Kelly is one of the Australian Jesuits who had long discussed a journal of intelligent comment on topical issues in church and society. The models included long-running Jesuit publications overseas including America in the USA, established in 1909, and the The Month in Britain (1864-2001).
READ MORE
-
EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 05 November 2010
Prominent Aboriginal elder Tom Calma was brought up Catholic but no longer sees himself as a Christian. While he has gravitated towards his Aboriginal spiritual heritage, he envisions a positive engagement between Christianity and Aboriginal spirituality, and urges the Churches to be open to a hybrid Christianity that embraces both.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 October 2010
5 Comments
Sexual abuse was part of the mix of challenges facing Mary MacKillop and her sisters, but it was only one of many elements of disfunction within the Church and society of the time. Historian Father Ed Campion has described MacKillop as 'a heroine to modern Australian feminists'.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 30 September 2010
1 Comment
The Australian Anglican Church is divided on questions of women's ordination, sexuality, lay presidency and liturgical texts. But the recent assembly in Melbourne was relatively polite, although the question of the conservative, evangelical Sydney Diocese's relationship with the rest was never far from the surface.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg and Edith Speers
- 14 September 2010
13 Comments
Come as you are, Marilyn Manson ... that's how I want you, Peter Kennedy ... Trust me again, Germaine Greer ... Don't run away, Catherine Deveney ... Nothing can change, Pope Benedict ... the love that I bear you, George Pell
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Antony Loewenstein
- 03 September 2010
31 Comments
The Australian Jewish News has condemned the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) for calling on Australians to boycott Israeli goods made in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. The NCCA is supporting a campaign of groups determined to act where western political leaders have failed. Leaders including Barack Obama, Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott refuse to acknowledge what they are backing when they declare they are ‘pro-Israel’.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 August 2010
33 Comments
The churches, with their tradition of recognising the deeper values
in human beings and society, can play an important part in generating a richer vision of Australian society. They'll need to cooperate with other groups who decry
the self-interested focus in Australian politics.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
We assume aid is 'helping people'. But the 2006 White Paper on Australian Aid specified its purpose to help countries 'reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development, in line with Australia’s national interest'. We'd be mortified if a church agency came out with such a self-serving clause.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 June 2010
23 Comments
The Nigerian priests are disturbed that many Australian Catholic parents send their children to Catholic school but not to Mass. The structured religious lives of children in Nigeria mean that one seminary has had to restrict its intake numbers to 90 per year.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 April 2010
19 Comments
In his Easter
message, Cardinal George Pell made an oblique reference to sexual abuse in the Church. While most Australians dismiss such utterances as too
little too late, it is possible to look at them optimistically when
set against actions of the recent past.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 02 March 2010
5 Comments
now because of you kneeling .. beside me, thumbing the scarred leather .. of the little mass-book your grandmother .. hid at the back of her Protestant linen-press
READ MORE