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  • RELIGION

    Where to now for Anglicans and Rome

    • Charles Sherlock
    • 22 October 2009
    2 Comments

    If the Apostolic Constitution is phrased in overly-confident 'Romanista' style it will communicate a bureaucratic message and reinforce the suspicion that 'ecumenical endeavour' means 'return to Rome', rather than the vision of every Christian tradition being converted to unity.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book of the week

    • Jen Vuk
    • 22 August 2008

    What is 'Daddy's nigger rule', and what is the profound impact it has upon his son David's Tennessee childhood?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Terrorist fear exposes Dutch intolerance

    • Ashlea Scicluna
    • 20 May 2008
    19 Comments

    The popular perception of the Netherlands as a tolerant country is only a half-truth. Most Dutch rarely mix with the Islamic population, fearing Islam will encroach upon the traditional values of Dutch identity. The nation has failed to understand and accept its Muslim population.

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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
    7 Comments

    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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  • RELIGION

    Pope's Islamic stumble baffles the experts

    • Daniel Madigan
    • 18 September 2006
    45 Comments

    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.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Evolving Guatemala

    • Peter Hamilton
    • 05 June 2006

    Peter Hamilton reflects on Guatemala, and the features of the old city, Antigua.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Split personalities

    • John Button
    • 25 April 2006

    John Button reviews The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective, edited by Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Labor split

    • Paul Strangio
    • 25 April 2006

    The healing begins 

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  • RELIGION

    The challenge of reconciliation

    • Jeremy Clarke
    • 25 April 2006

    If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Tensions mount in Sri Lanka

    • Jon Greenaway
    • 21 April 2006

     A few months’ peace in the wake of the tsunami was shattered by an assassin’s bullet.  

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