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    Best of 2010: Anwar invokes true meaning of sharia law

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 04 January 2011

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    Jesuit's vision for a pluralist Australia

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 30 July 2010
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  • Jesuit's vision for a pluralist Australia

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 30 July 2010

    When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.

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    Thoughts of a Buddhist Christian theologian

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 26 March 2010
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    Anwar invokes true meaning of sharia law

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 29 January 2010
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    Ethical solutions to the global moral crisis

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 18 December 2009

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    Death of fanaticism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 04 December 2009
    1 Comment

    Religious bigotry, fanaticism, and associated violence are still very much with us. A central ethos of the Parliament of Religions is to honour, preserve and seek to understand the particularities of different faiths rather than try to make them all the same.

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    Reasons for optimism in Israel and Palestine

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 28 August 2009
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    Members of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel are remarkably sanguine about the future. Within their lifetimes, they expect peace to reign after implementation of the two state solution.

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  • RELIGION

    Gentle Benedict concedes papal roadshow must go on

    • Paul Collins
    • 11 July 2007
    14 Comments

    Following earlier scepticism, Pope Benedict XVI last week confirmed that he is coming to Sydney for World Youth Day next July. Unlike his predecessor, he doesn't see himself as ‘bishop of the world’. Instead he has reasserted the traditional pastoral role of the pope as Bishop of Rome.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Daniel Madigan SJ

    • Daniel Madigan
    • 17 May 2007
    2 Comments

    Fr Dan Madigan is an Australian Jesuit who is a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and head of the Pontifical Gregorian University's Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures, which he established in 2002.

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  • RELIGION

    Pope's Islamic stumble baffles the experts

    • Daniel Madigan
    • 24 December 2006

    Pope Benedict is learning the hard way that interreligious dialogue these days is a complex and delicate business. Though he has now affirmed his respect for Muslims, his decision to quote a polemical medieval text against Muhammad and the Qur’an during a lecture last week remains puzzling. From 19 September 2006.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Iconoclasts' challenge to turn the other cheek

    • Michael Mullins & James Massola
    • 18 September 2006
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    When the Jesuits' founder St Ignatius Loyola was on the road riding with a Moor in 1522, the Moor argued that the Virgin Mary was no longer a virgin after Christ was born. The recent former soldier Ignatius wanted to kill the Moor on the spot.

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