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Paul Collins and the Vatican
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV

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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MEDIA

Testing new peace plan on Libya
- Tony Kevin
- 23 March 2011
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Following the success of the UN Security Council approved action in Libya, Gaddafi ought to be allowed into some safe international haven. To push hm into a last-ditch Hitlerian bunker stand would cause much unnecessary civilian death and destruction.
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INTERNATIONAL

Thirty years of Jesuit Refugee Service
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
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May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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AUSTRALIA

Church implicated in Canada's reconciliation project
- Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa
- 02 July 2010
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Survivors of the Indian Residential Schools who testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission complained of shocking treatment, violence and sexual abuse. Testimonies left no doubt that Canada's churches were heavily culpable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Forgiving genocide
- Bronwyn Lay
- 14 May 2010
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During the massacre Rurangwa's grandmother was murdered mid-prayer, various family members called to god for help, while the killers, fellow parishioners of the local church, struck their machetes until faith fell with precious bodies into a pile.
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AUSTRALIA

How to apologise for genocide
- Binoy Kampmark
- 06 April 2010
3 Comments
From Rudd's 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations, to last year's US Senate resolution apologising for slavery, the political apology has assumed freight and relevance. An apology issued in the Serbian Parliament last week is exceptional for its attempt to allow the perpetrator into the moral circle.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Debunking the myth of Jewish communism
- Philip Mendes
- 05 February 2010
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The myth of an international Jewish communist conspiracy has long been a central diet of anti-Semitic agendas. Dutch academic Andre Gerrits provides a dispassionate an balanced account of this contentious topic.
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RELIGION

Marketing the Dalai Lama
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
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When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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AUSTRALIA

Bosnian war criminal's strategic repentance
- Binoy Kampmark
- 30 October 2009
1 Comment
The only woman convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has returned to Serbia. Her guilty plea formed part of a bargain, another sign that guilt and punishments are often matters of tactics and basic arithmetic. The victims of that savage war will not be so gracious.
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AUSTRALIA

Guatemala the grave
- Colm McNaughton
- 23 September 2009
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The exhumation of mass graves in Guatemala, sites of decades-old massacres, rarely leads to convictions. The history of Guatemala's indigenous Mayan communities is marked by slavery, poverty and genocide. Not much has changed.
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AUSTRALIA

Inside the Zimbabwe blast furnace
- Munyaradzi Makoni
- 26 June 2009
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Yesterday's political archrivals are today's strange bedfellows. The coalition government of Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara has halted Zimbabwe's hemorrhaging. Now that a veneer of progress exists, can Zimbabwe heal itself?
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