21 Dec 2025 Holding on to hope – a Christmas reflection
Frank Brennan 30 Nov 2025 Faith that costs something: the Pope's challenge to comfortable Christianity
John Singarayar 31 Oct 2025 Leo XIV: 'Apostle of nonviolence'
Robert Mickens 28 Oct 2025 Raise the double standard high
Justin Glyn 23 Oct 2025 Muted response to Trump's appropriation of Christianity
John Schumann 23 Oct 2025 Islamophobia in Australian schools: What the Special Envoy’s report means for education
Lara Alqudah, Catherine Hartung, Perri Campbell 22 Oct 2025 The Pope, the media and the 'normalisation' of Trump
Robert Mickens 19 Oct 2025 Was the gospel preached at Charlie Kirk's memorial service?
Keith Mascord 15 Oct 2025 Shameful distortion that lies at the heart of US conservative politics
George Browning 7 Oct 2025 Charlie Kirk, Andrew Hastie and the 'Christian' West: Some Christian pushback
Geoff Thompson 22 Sep 2025 Pope Leo is right: Uber-wealthy CEOs like Musk are paid too much
Sarah Anderson 16 Sep 2025 Landmark report to combat Islamophobia in Australia launched
Zia Ahmad 5 Sep 2025 Gaza’s Christians refuse to abandon churches before Israeli attack
Moataz al-Hallaq 30 Aug 2025 Never again – so the world pledged
George Browning 30 Aug 2025 'It is time to end this spiral of violence' - Greek Orthodox and Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem 28 Aug 2025 ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight
Si Gladman 27 Aug 2025 Caritas Internationalis statement on the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City
Caritas International 23 Aug 2025 The Gaza crisis and the Australian Church
John Warhurst 11 Aug 2025 Too late
William Grimm 7 Aug 2025 Interfaith groups come together to call for Gaza action
Interfaith Coalition 2 Aug 2025 Why are our Australian institutions so silent regarding the Gaza genocide?
Kevin Liston 2 Aug 2025 New ethical multilateralism of the fraternal economy program of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
Jeffrey D. Sachs 27 Jul 2025 Defining antisemitism and bringing the killing to an end
Frank Brennan 25 Jul 2025 50 years of 'the meddling priest'
Paul Collins 23 Jul 2025 Time to clarify the scope for bipartisan cooperation in a new Federal Parliament
Philip Huggins 22 Jul 2025 Pope demands 'Immediate Halt to the Barbarity' of Israel's war on Gaza
Common Dreams staff 21 Jul 2025 Israel kills three in Gaza Catholic church sheltering elderly, children
Al Jazeera Staff 17 Jul 2025 Israeli settlers kill, destroy and steal with impunity
Helen McCue 6 Jul 2025 Spiritual malpractice: The Vatican's dodgy saint-making business
Robert Mickens 2 Jul 2025 Five books the Bible could do without
David O'Halloran 27 Jun 2025 Twisting biblical narratives to suit aggression
Paul Collins 26 Jun 2025 The legacy of Pope Francis Part 2: Signs of hope amid global setbacks
Bruce Duncan 25 Jun 2025 The legacy of Pope Francis in an unjust world – Part 1
Bruce Duncan 20 Jun 2025 Job and the point of a good life
David O'Halloran 3 Jun 2025 Christianity: the antithesis of Zionism
George Browning 1 Jun 2025 Jerry Falwell and the Christian culture wars
David Rosen 20 May 2025 Time for Catholic Bishops to speak up for Palestine
Catholics for Justice and Peace for Palestinians 19 May 2025 Pope Leo XIV and some unfinished business
Kieran Tapsell 13 May 2025 Politics courting religion: Religion courting politics
George Browning 11 May 2025 The New Pope – Leo XIV
Paul Collins 8 May 2025 Tackling Christian extremism in Australian politics
Lucy Hamilton 8 May 2025 Sino-Vatican ties likely to survive Pope Francis' passing
Grenville Cross 8 May 2025 Catholics, social policy and the Common Good
Paul Smyth 7 May 2025 Will the new pope be a Francis clone?
Paul Collins 6 May 2025 Pope Francis' parting gift to the Church: a messy conclave
Robert Mickens 5 May 2025 Andrew Bolt's cynical attack on faith
Graham Maddox 3 May 2025 'Never again' for Jews, Palestinians and all humanity
John Menadue 30 Apr 2025 A peace reflection after Easter, remembering Pope Francis and Anzac Day
Philip Huggins 29 Apr 2025 Six Easter days, 2025
Morag Fraser 29 Apr 2025 Aussie cardinals in short supply at papal conclave
Jack Waterford 26 Apr 2025 The legacy of a Jesuit pope
Frank Brennan 26 Apr 2025 ACCCR calls for ethical and responsible leadership in the federal election
Eleanor Flynn, Kevin Liston 25 Apr 2025 Pope Francis was a man from the peripheries
Paul Collins 25 Apr 2025 Even in sickness, Pope Francis reached out to Gaza's Christians
Barb Durance 23 Apr 2025 Pope Francis dies at 88 after final appeal for Gaza ceasefire
Common Dreams 23 Apr 2025 Explainer | What happens after Pope Francis’ death?
SCMP Editorial 17 Apr 2025 Faith and public policy
Francis Sullivan 17 Apr 2025 Easter: More rising than falling
Stephanie Dowrick 16 Apr 2025 Easter, triumph of life over death
Paul Collins 16 Apr 2025 The Thereafter
Bill Uren 16 Apr 2025 The Coalition commits to Christian Nationalism
Lucy Hamilton 15 Apr 2025 Building peace through contemplation, compassion and our common humanity
Philip Huggins 14 Apr 2025 Will the real God please stand up?
Fergus McGinley 8 Apr 2025 God doesn't save the day – oh, but yes, they do!
Fergus McGinley 19 Mar 2025 Does Jesus need a barber? The question is a trap
Duncan Graham 18 Mar 2025 Empathy, culpability and madness
George Browning 17 Mar 2025 A massacre in Sharifa
Chris Ray 5 Mar 2025 The next pope?
Paul Collins 19 Feb 2025 The fruits of American bishops’ failure
William Grimm 17 Feb 2025 Pitt may not be best fit as ambassador to the Holy See
Paul Collins 16 Feb 2025 Trump and Christianity – Why it matters
George Browning 14 Feb 2025 Pope Francis and zero tolerance of child sexual abuse
Kieran Tapsell 10 Feb 2025 Why doesn't God save the day?
Eric Hunter 5 Feb 2025 The widow’s mite: a call to justice, not sacrifice
David O'Halloran 2 Feb 2025 The missing story of the adulteress: censorship, power, and the bible
David O'Halloran 24 Jan 2025 The Liberal party, Moira Deeming and political Christianity
Lucy Hamilton 19 Jan 2025 End, end the Gaza genocide
John-Janusz Ebel 13 Jan 2025 Hope: A shared responsibility
David O'Halloran 3 Jan 2025 A (very) personal theology of disability
Roger Beale 2 Jan 2025 Seasons: Telling stories of God and life through landscape painting
Roger Beale 24 Dec 2024 A Christmas meditation: 'Subtle is the Lord'
Bill Uren 24 Dec 2024 Killing one innocent soul is the same as killing all of humanity: Jewish and Muslim teachings against cosmocide
Juan Cole 23 Dec 2024 Christmas: Beyond the fantastical
John Queripel 23 Dec 2024 New cardinals, an aging pope and the upcoming conclave
Robert Mickens 22 Dec 2024 Every day is Christmas: A Quaker perspective
David O'Halloran 22 Dec 2024 A Christmas message to the Catholic Diocesan Bishops of the local churches in Australia
Catholics For Renewal 8 Dec 2024 That Christmas Carols event and remembering the birth of Jesus
Judy Attwood 6 Dec 2024 A call to all Christians in Australia to strive for a just peace in the holy land
Pax Christi 30 Nov 2024 Updates from Jerusalem, then and now
Stephanie Dowrick 28 Nov 2024 Zionism: An existential threat to Judaism
George Browning 17 Nov 2024 A blessed synchronicity: How even memories of war can give hope for peace
Frances Letters 14 Nov 2024 At UNCOP29, improper dealings and safety concerns promise disaster
Philip Huggins 8 Nov 2024 A controversial graduation address
Bill Uren 30 Oct 2024 To Jews and Christians of faith: you can’t sit out a genocide
Eugene Doyle 27 Oct 2024 “The possessing of nuclear weapons is immoral”: Will US Bishops heed Pope's pronouncement?
William Grimm 18 Oct 2024 Pope Francis and practising what one preaches
Kieran Tapsell 16 Oct 2024 How Zionism proselytises
Sara Dowse 9 Oct 2024 Pope Francis' latest 'creations'
Paul Collins 4 Oct 2024 The ‘Haredisation’ of Israel and its demographic future: Is there a case for ringing alarm bells?
Iyanatul Islam 14 Sep 2024 In a wheel chair to the peripheries
Paul Collins 7 Sep 2024 Pope takes refugee concerns on the road
Robin Osborne 29 Aug 2024 Mixed opinions about unproven Synod on Synodality
John Warhurst 21 Aug 2024 A dream: of world leaders meeting to make peace
Philip Huggins 5 Aug 2024 Parliamentary prayers: are they legal?
David Salter 4 Aug 2024 Finding hope, giving hope, by remembering our roots
Philip Huggins 29 Jul 2024 Donald Trump and God: not a match made in Heaven
Mark Beeson 28 Jul 2024 Awakening: Stories of grace and inner peace
Philip Huggins 21 Jul 2024 Religion and the census – seeking accuracy and truth
Michael Dove 17 Jul 2024 A road to nowhere: faith-based political parties
Jeff Kildea 30 Jun 2024 Primates are human: Archbishop Gough
Humphrey McQueen 24 Jun 2024 Australian Libertarians and Theocrats unite in Albury
Lucy Hamilton 17 Jun 2024 The elephant in the Zionist classroom
Evan Jones 8 Jun 2024 Religion and the census
Paul Collins 2 Jun 2024 A Catholic church responsive to the human needs of our fellow citizens
Paul Collins 2 May 2024 Resisting radical evil
Chris Hedges 30 Apr 2024 Gaza and victimhood
Susan Connelly 29 Apr 2024 The song in our hearts and of our hearts
Philip Huggins 21 Apr 2024 Pope fires warning shot to Church leaders who would defy Vatican II
David Timbs 17 Apr 2024 Why does Australia want to be so suicidal?
Philip Huggins 16 Apr 2024 Pope Francis has abandoned transgender Catholics
Francis Sullivan 16 Apr 2024 Ok, Allah, we passed your test
Duncan Graham 1 Apr 2024 Peacemakers for our wounded humanity
Philip Huggins 31 Mar 2024 Lights on or lights out?
George Browning 31 Mar 2024 Imitation accelerates
Susan Connelly 29 Mar 2024 Stan Grant on Good Friday, Easter, and God’s absence in our suffering world
Paul Collins 29 Mar 2024 The Cross: What do we bring to the Cross this Holy Week 2024?
Philip Huggins 26 Mar 2024 We now need, it seems, a Voice for bigots
Jack Waterford 19 Mar 2024 ‘The credibility of the Gospel is at stake’: Pax Christi calls on faith leaders to speak out on behalf of Gaza
Claude Mostowik 17 Mar 2024 Thinking about peacebuilding in Australia on St Patrick's Day
Philip Huggins 10 Mar 2024 What is Zionism?
Simon Holloway 9 Mar 2024 Israel and Judaism part company
George Browning 27 Feb 2024 Amidst strategic stalemate, Ukraine war remains Vatican priority
Paul Collins 25 Feb 2024 Here, while others are not: A meditation on peacebuilding
Philip Huggins 21 Feb 2024 Vatican - Israel rupture over Gaza
Paul Collins 17 Feb 2024 The perfect recipe for a real antisemitism crisis
Caitlin Johnstone 11 Feb 2024 Pope Francis would find PNG refugee conditions an eye-opener
Mark Gaetani 10 Feb 2024 The materialisation of Chinese Christianity
Michel Chambon 7 Feb 2024 Why is Christian persecution often met with indifference?
Barney Zwartz 4 Feb 2024 Ant nest theology
Michael Morwood 29 Jan 2024 The agony of Michael Gawenda
Caroline Graham 21 Jan 2024 Division, terrible suffering, and learnings about peacebuilding
Philip Huggins 19 Jan 2024 Efforts to suppress Palestinian history defeated
Vivienne Porzsolt, Ahmed Abadla 27 Dec 2023 The need for theological reform
Michael Morwood 24 Dec 2023 Blue Christmas
Geoff Dornan 30 Nov 2023 Suffer the little children to come unto me…
John Menadue 19 Nov 2023 Losing my religion
Mark Beeson 13 Nov 2023 The relational consequences of October 7
Philip Huggins 10 Nov 2023 The day after: Destroying Gaza will only yield future war
Peter Rodgers 9 Nov 2023 Enemy twins: Israel and Hamas unite to massacre innocents
Susan Connelly 8 Nov 2023 Israel does not have the right to ‘defend itself’
Paul Heywood-Smith 7 Nov 2023 Massacre of the Innocents
George Browning 29 Oct 2023 Hoping against hope: The Synodal process and prospects for equality for women in the church
John Warhurst 25 Oct 2023 Israel has “Form” and much of it is brutal
Helen McCue 24 Oct 2023 Blindly supporting Israel, the West abandons the values it claims to stand for
Ali Kazak 24 Oct 2023 Genocide: Israel uses cover of Gaza crisis to Judaise “Area C”
Paul Heywood-Smith 24 Oct 2023 Israel will never be safe until Palestine is free
Jack Waterford 22 Oct 2023 Gaza genocide exposes fundamental bias in the state-corporate news media
Media Lens 20 Oct 2023 Israel’s culture of deceit
Chris Hedges 20 Oct 2023 Western reporters’ shameful cover-up of Israel’s hospital massacre: A postscript
Paul Heywood-Smith 20 Oct 2023 The Crumpled Heart and the role now of wounded healers
Philip Huggins 19 Oct 2023 Advocate of evil: Biden is complicit with Israel
John Whitbeck 19 Oct 2023 To my brothers and cousins, the Jewish community of Australia
Imad Mahmoud 19 Oct 2023 "Extreme escalation": Hospital destruction an unconscionable war crime
Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) 19 Oct 2023 You reap what you sow in Israel
Avigail Abarbanel 18 Oct 2023 Saving Israel and Palestine through the UN
Jeffrey D. Sachs 17 Oct 2023 Palestinian genocide: History whispers until it shouts
Reb Halabi 17 Oct 2023 Rejected by the people who dispossessed and colonised them
Frank Brennan 17 Oct 2023 Palestine’s unending torment: A stain on the world’s conscience
Joseph Camilleri 17 Oct 2023 100 years of ethnic cleansing: Quo Vadis Palestine
Paul Heywood-Smith 15 Oct 2023 ‘Netanyahu is finished’
Seymour Hersh 13 Oct 2023 Deafening silence as Israel kills over 320 children in Gaza
Jessica Corbett 13 Oct 2023 Netanyahu’s cries for revenge
Stuart Rees 13 Oct 2023 Israel can’t imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price
Gideon Levy 13 Oct 2023 MAPW Statement on Israel and Palestine: "Assert the right of all peoples"
Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) 12 Oct 2023 Gaza shatters the facade of ‘calm’
Mohammed R. Mhawish 12 Oct 2023 Jailbreak from prison Gaza
Reb Halabi 12 Oct 2023 Palestine: The right to defence of stolen land
Michael Callanan 11 Oct 2023 Selective enforcer: ICC must warn Israel on crimes against humanity
Greg Barns 8 Oct 2023 Climate disaster: Pope Francis repudiates developed world’s economics and culture
Paul Collins 4 Oct 2023 UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to visit Australia
Paul Heywood-Smith 29 Sep 2023 When will Israel seek forgiveness for its crimes against Palestinians?
Gideon Levy 24 Sep 2023 In the chorus of Yes, why aren't the bishops joining in?
John Warhurst 17 Sep 2023 Korean Catholics continue fight against coal power
Union of Catholic Asian News 16 Sep 2023 Playing a losing hand
Jafar Ramini 15 Sep 2023 Imagine a day when the whole planet was at peace
Philip Huggins 7 Sep 2023 The Palestinian catastrophe: Occupation, Illegality and Apartheid
Bob Carr 4 Sep 2023 Justice delayed is justice denied: The case for a Palestinian state
Peter Slezak 3 Sep 2023 The future of the Catholic Church: Creating unity through diversity
John Warhurst 2 Sep 2023 Religion and social policy network welcomes the Statement from the Heart
Religion and Social Policy Network 25 Aug 2023 The branding
Reb Halabi 20 Aug 2023 A 'Statement From The Heart' should always be cherished
Philip Huggins 16 Aug 2023 At National Conference, the ALP has the chance to recognise Palestine as a state
Stuart Rees 15 Aug 2023 Australia’s decision to again use the term ‘occupied Palestinian territories’ brings it into line with international law
Amy Maguire 13 Aug 2023 The other form of abuse in the Catholic Church
John Crothers 8 Aug 2023 There is no legal impediment to Australia’s recognition of Palestine
Victor Kattan 2 Aug 2023 If not now, when? The ‘fiction’ of the two-state solution
Jafar Ramini 1 Aug 2023 Compromised by vested interests: UNCOP culture doesn’t match reality
Philip Huggins 22 Jul 2023 Enough carrots. It's time for the U.S. to use sticks to change Israeli Policy
Gideon Levy 20 Jul 2023 Palestine lives
Jafar Ramini 16 Jul 2023 Is Pope Francis preparing for the next pope and an “October revolution” in Catholicism?
Paul Collins 16 Jul 2023 Jenin attack created 4,000 new refugees, part of the endless cycle of Palestinian displacement since 1948
Anne Irfan 14 Jul 2023 Albanese: Time to dismantle Israel’s “carceral regime”
United Nations 9 Jul 2023 Fallen potatoes-the failure of the Catholic Church
Barbara Kelly 9 Jul 2023 The Palestine question: Western media and long-term solutions
Peter F. Crowley 5 Jul 2023 Silence and the horror of Jenin
Reb Halabi 23 Jun 2023 Calvary Hospital acquisition may open new horizons
Peter O’Keeffe 20 Jun 2023 Uganda’s version of Christianity
Reb Halabi 16 Jun 2023 The case for recognising Palestine
Gareth Evans 10 Jun 2023 The Spark
Jafar Ramini 9 Jun 2023 Israeli Defence Force shoots and kills a 3-year-old
Reb Halabi 6 Jun 2023 Catholics should go where the government isn’t
Jack Waterford 31 May 2023 Australia and apartheid Israel: “not to act is to condone”
Paul Heywood-Smith 31 May 2023 What will it take for Peter Dutton to say ‘YES’ to the ‘Voice’?
Philip Huggins 27 May 2023 Vale, Stan Grant
Paul Collins 21 May 2023 Unity: Living together with a more ‘Sympathetic Imagination’
Philip Huggins 21 May 2023 Long live the Palestinian resistance
Mistahi Corkill 19 May 2023 The march of death
Jafar Ramini 16 May 2023 The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba) and Australia’s responsibility
Ali Kazak 16 May 2023 The Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, should speak out
AJDS Executive 15 May 2023 The ongoing Palestinian Nakba
Jafar Ramini 14 May 2023 A reflection in federal budget week that is cost-neutral!
Philip Huggins 10 May 2023 An open letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
Reb Halabi 7 May 2023 What’s mine and not yours
Reb Halabi 30 Apr 2023 Abundant life: honouring the discovery of Mungo Lady
Philip Huggins 29 Apr 2023 Fulfilling human potential and saving the planet
Barry Jones 26 Apr 2023 Antisemitism and the IHRA definition
Paul Heywood-Smith 26 Apr 2023 Does the Vatican's road to Beijing run through Hong Kong?
Richard Cullen 23 Apr 2023 National day of prayer for just peace in Mayanmar
Philip Huggins 20 Apr 2023 “It’s armageddon, but not as we know it”
Reb Halabi 16 Apr 2023 In thy God I don't trust
Jafar Ramini 16 Apr 2023 Blast from our sectarian past
Jeff Kildea 12 Apr 2023 Nihilism in Israel, what possible response?
Stuart Rees 11 Apr 2023 A fizzled campaign to muzzle free speech
Peter Slezak, Larry Stillman, Martin Munz 10 Apr 2023 An Easter reflection: dreaming dreams, hoping against hope
Frank Brennan 9 Apr 2023 Easter: A new beginning for wounded humanity and our depleted planet
Philip Huggins 7 Apr 2023 Easter Message: Power, control, autocracy, Empire...
George Browning 5 Apr 2023 Exposing Israel’s violations upset the Israeli lobby
Ali Kazak 2 Apr 2023 Netanyahu’s nakedness: democracy – whose democracy?
George Browning 2 Apr 2023 Wake in fright but fear not; Ramadan’s here
Duncan Graham 1 Apr 2023 Anti-Christian hate crimes in Jerusalem soaring this year
Nir Hasson 19 Mar 2023 Slowing “the roaring river of violence”
Philip Huggins 10 Mar 2023 Palestinians are not terrorists
George Browning 5 Mar 2023 The sin of Robodebt
David O'Halloran 4 Mar 2023 An open call for genocide in Palestine
Jafar Ramini 2 Mar 2023 Ha’aretz: Israel is now a “formal, full-fledged apartheid regime”
Helen McCue 25 Feb 2023 The one hope for peace in the West Bank
Bob Carr 22 Feb 2023 When will it ever end?
Jafar Ramini 19 Feb 2023 How can this be happening?
Philip Huggins 10 Feb 2023 Lessons from the earthquake disasters in Turkey and Syria
Stuart Rees 5 Feb 2023 Australia: peacemaker or warmonger?
George Browning 5 Feb 2023 Netanyahu’s collective punishment of Palestinians
Kevin Bray 5 Feb 2023 Is it really about international religious freedom?
Jerry Grey 3 Feb 2023 Opus Dei: A Catholic sect
Paul Collins 2 Feb 2023 Occupation: are we indifferent to the cruelty imposed on Palestinians?
Gillian Cowlishaw 2 Feb 2023 Pell’s legacy haunts Australia’s Catholic bishops
Terry Fewtrell 29 Jan 2023 George Pell: Enigma variations or the real thing?
Michael Breen 26 Jan 2023 26 January echoes with ‘torment’ of First Nation peoples' ‘powerlessness’
Philip Huggins 23 Jan 2023 Fear to criticise Israel fosters racism and apartheid
Stuart Rees 23 Jan 2023 ‘The bell tolls for Pell and the church I knew’
Greg Latemore 22 Jan 2023 George Pell: the Faith vs the Institution
George Browning 21 Jan 2023 The Pell memorandum must be confronted
Paul Collins 18 Jan 2023 “Inspired by love and anger”: Oil CEO heads UNCOP28
Philip Huggins 17 Jan 2023 George Pell leaves a diminished church, to successors hardly better
Jack Waterford 15 Jan 2023 Incompatible minds: A reflection on George Pell
Tony Smith 15 Jan 2023 Why I am still a 'Methodist'
Graham Maddox 15 Jan 2023 The last pope of the Second Church?
William Grimm 14 Jan 2023 Cardinal George Pell
Paul Collins 13 Jan 2023 George Pell’s death symbolises the demise of a church out of touch and out of time
Francis Sullivan 8 Jan 2023 Reflections on Pope Benedict
Geraldine Doogue 3 Jan 2023 Reflecting on the Ratzinger papacy
Paul Collins 24 Dec 2022 Christmas: war and peace
Paul Collins 24 Dec 2022 Gathering for Christmas
John Woods 24 Dec 2022 John Menadue. Why I am still a Catholic: A repost from July 7, 2017
John Menadue 24 Dec 2022 A 2022 Christmas reflection
Frank Brennan 23 Dec 2022 A Christmas Homily
Bill Uren 22 Dec 2022 True love never coerces: a meditation for Christmas 2022
Philip Huggins 22 Dec 2022 Christmas: the uncherished gift
George Browning 16 Dec 2022 30 years on, Keating’s Redfern speech demands we back the Voice: Watch it here
Francis Sullivan 12 Dec 2022 Dr Paul Collins and population ethics
Stephen Williams 10 Dec 2022 Why is the Catholic Church still investigating itself?
Francis Sullivan 4 Dec 2022 NSW, ACT Baptists in vote to prevent celebrations of love between LGBTQIA+ people
Thorwald Lorenzen 2 Dec 2022 You shall not kill
Philip Huggins 1 Dec 2022 Zionist violence against Palestinians is the antithesis of Judaism
George Browning 28 Nov 2022 Give thanks and rejoice: reflections for ST Therese’s Parish centenary mass
Pearls and Irritations guest John Hannon 27 Nov 2022 Two meetings: Frascati and the Vatican
Bill Uren 13 Nov 2022 A harmonious future: In loving our faith, appreciating others
John Queripel 10 Nov 2022 Of Shahid and Ghazees – Spin and the “explaining” of Islam
Adrian Lipscomb 5 Nov 2022 Sex, drugs and confusion: Sharia law in Bali?
Duncan Graham 23 Oct 2022 Australia re-joins majority international position on the status of Jerusalem
George Browning 23 Oct 2022 Is opposition to abortion and homosexuality really a ‘religious view’?
Stan van Hooft 12 Oct 2022 Repatriation of Muslim families from Syrian camp
Frances Letters 10 Oct 2022 Western anti-China rhetoric reeks of hypocrisy
John Queripel 9 Oct 2022 How Israel practices apartheid
John Menadue 7 Oct 2022 Liberal candidate supports US-style abortion ban ahead of state poll
Lucy Hamilton 22 Sep 2022 Anointed not appointed: reign not rule
George Browning 19 Sep 2022 The Defence Strategic Review as strategic theology
Michael McKinley 15 Sep 2022 One established church is enough
Paul Collins 1 Sep 2022 How to become a Catholic bishop
Paul Collins 25 Aug 2022 Catholic Plenary outcomes compromised by process
Terry Fewtrell 21 Aug 2022 Catholics for renewal: August 10th, 2022
Bill Uren 20 Aug 2022 The Anglican breakaway 'cult' - a swan that quacks like a duck must be a duck
George Browning 7 Aug 2022 The Vatican and the German Synodal way
Bill Uren 3 Aug 2022 Morrison and Japan's new rightist religions
Gregory Clark 14 Jul 2022 A ground breaking week in the Australian Catholic Church
Marilyn Hatton 13 Jul 2022 Geraldine Doogue - Catholic Church’s council moved by the spirit of progress
John Menadue 9 Jul 2022 Christianity: a dismal future?
Paul Collins 8 Jul 2022 Plenty of spin at the second Catholic Plenary Council. Hearts were broken
John Warhurst 3 Jul 2022 Towards a new hopefulness
Gail Freyne 30 Jun 2022 Catholic Bishops playing the Plenary with questionable spirit
Terry Fewtrell 29 Jun 2022 Plenary Council fails to embrace Pope Francis's social vision
Bruce Duncan 19 Jun 2022 Paul Collins: Pope Francis keeps them guessing
Paul Collins 16 Jun 2022 Vale Francis Gerard Brennan
Michael Kelly 12 Jun 2022 Hannon: A Tribute to Father Eric Hodgens – friend, pastor, priest
John Menadue 10 Jun 2022 Anglicans, ANZAC and the nation
Greg Lockhart 5 Jun 2022 Beth Doherty-Recovering the “True” Church - Book Review
John Menadue 2 Jun 2022 Anglicans divided over same sex marriage
George Browning 17 May 2022 Christians and the Federal Election
George Browning 17 Apr 2022 Philip Huggins: Easter and the universality of forgiveness at a pivotal moment in our nation's history
John Menadue 17 Apr 2022 Easter celebrates life – and peace
Stephanie Dowrick 17 Apr 2022 Eric Hunter: What's God's answer?
John Menadue 17 Apr 2022 An unexpected Easter in Ukraine
David Timbs 15 Apr 2022 Bringing light out of darkness
Michael Kelly 14 Apr 2022 Christ's Resurrection in 2022
Paul Collins 13 Apr 2022 Easter: A new thing
George Browning 2 Apr 2022 The next phase of Vatican reforms will be crucial
Robert Mickens 24 Mar 2022 When Catholic bishops play dirty nobody wins
Terry Fewtrell 16 Mar 2022 Putin, the Pope and the Patriarch
Paul Collins 14 Mar 2022 Measuring the decibels of piety in Indonesia
Duncan Graham 4 Mar 2022 Pope Francis is 85. Insiders are already thinking about the future leader of Catholicism’s 1.34 billion adherents
Paul Collins 18 Feb 2022 The fundamentalist take-over of 'Christianity'
Paul Collins 17 Feb 2022 False fruits: What hope now for the Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic Church?
Peter Johnstone 6 Feb 2022 Discrimination — even by bishops — is contrary to the message of Jesus
Catholics For Renewal 9 Jan 2022 What Scott Morrison's really saying by aligning with Pentecostals
Roderick St George 7 Jan 2022 The good life: a priest's 10 commandments for the Catholic Church
Jane Anderson 24 Dec 2021 How Christ inspires us to lives better lives for ourselves and others
Marilyn Hatton 23 Dec 2021 Lessons in loneliness at Christmas from Dorothy Day
Michael Kelly 23 Dec 2021 A universal story of hope for today's world, whatever you believe
Stephanie Dowrick 22 Dec 2021 Christmas, Jesus, and the promise of a new way of being human
David Timbs 21 Dec 2021 Finding meaning in Christmas for all Australians
George Browning 19 Dec 2021 Christmas matters, but Christians are really Easter people
J.A. Dick 12 Dec 2021 Catholic leaders should not fear 'doing a new thing'
Catholics For Renewal 26 Nov 2021 Bishops' opposition to equal opportunity laws exposes their own teaching
Michael Leahy 19 Nov 2021 'America does not care what will happen to Palestinian Christians'
Steve French 15 Nov 2021 A 'democratic' church's misstep on marriage equality
Thorwald Lorenzen 14 Nov 2021 Back to the future — governance in the Catholic Church
Michael Kelly 31 Oct 2021 Lessons from progressive Catholics for the Plenary Council
Jane Anderson 26 Oct 2021 Were the good old days in the Catholic Church really that good?
Claire Victory 21 Oct 2021 Hope springs eternal: The case for Catholic women priests
J.A. Dick 12 Oct 2021 Plenary Council: The hardest work is yet to come
John Warhurst 11 Oct 2021 The Plenary Council has been a masterclass in avoiding the real problems in the Catholic Church.
Paul Collins 10 Oct 2021 Plenary Council: The Church needs to change with the times
Francis Sullivan 8 Oct 2021 Political choices will test new, Catholic NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
John Carmody 8 Oct 2021 The dark shadow of scandal still lurks four years after the Royal Commission findings
Francis Sullivan 7 Oct 2021 Plenary Council: Time to test the full range of issues facing the church not just in Australia but France.
Francis Sullivan 6 Oct 2021 Will Catholics get what they want from the Plenary Council?
Marilyn Hatton 5 Oct 2021 Catholic Plenary Council: What hope for success?
Catholics For Renewal 4 Oct 2021 Insights from the Plenary Assembly where reaching out can be difficult
John Warhurst 3 Oct 2021 Catholic Plenary awakens hope despite women’s fading trust in the hierarchy
Andrea Dean 29 Sep 2021 Three Catholic Archbishops: A viral infection
Bill Uren 26 Sep 2021 Don't undermine the moral clarity of the fight against antisemitism
Robin Margo 26 Sep 2021 The Plenary Council agenda is not fit for purpose
Catholics For Renewal 24 Sep 2021 Cracking open the Plenary Council: Helpers wanted for Mark Coleridge and the Holy Spirit. Part 2
Terry Fewtrell 23 Sep 2021 The Australian Catholic Church’s angle of vanishing stability
Terry Fewtrell 19 Sep 2021 Kim Chen: Catholic leaders' 'irresponsible' vaccine statements put vulnerable at risk
ACCCR 19 Sep 2021 Plenary Council: Opportunity for Church to Restore Human Rights
Neville Roach 12 Sep 2021 The Plenary Council: Consulting the faithful
Bill Uren 5 Sep 2021 Catholic reform movement gathers momentum
ACCCR 29 Aug 2021 What good may come from the plenary council
Jim Jones 25 Aug 2021 Identifying antisemitism is not always clear cut
Harold Zwier 11 Aug 2021 If true-blue Pentecostalists were in charge what would they do about climate change?
A L Jones 10 Aug 2021 Doctrinal and structural Catholic Church transformation
J.A. Dick 5 Aug 2021 What we might hope from the Catholic Plenary Council!
Jim Jones 1 Aug 2021 Religious America is in decline
J.A. Dick 18 Jul 2021 Making atheists and doubters count in the next Census
Noel Turnbull 15 Jul 2021 Renew the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne or sink into the sunset.
Catholics For Renewal 1 Jul 2021 The difference between fake and genuine apologies
Noel Turnbull 1 Jul 2021 Catholic Plenary Council - an opportunity for Indigenous reconciliation
Neville Roach 27 Jun 2021 US Catholic Bishops have President Biden in their sights over abortion rights
J.A. Dick 8 Jun 2021 Pope Francis' reforms the Church's disciplinary system in response to royal commission
Kieran Tapsell 2 Jun 2021 Now or never: Remarks by John Warhurst at Book Launch of Wrestling with the Church Hierarchy
John Warhurst 31 May 2021 Australian Catholic media censorship, Pravda style.
Rod Page 26 May 2021 The struggle for real reform in the Australian Catholic Church: Catholics and their bishops are at odds
Terry Fewtrell 25 May 2021 History clarifies and history challenges for the Catholic Church
J.A. Dick 13 May 2021 History lessons for critiques on Christianity
Paul Collins 9 May 2021 Scott Morrison. Politics and Pentecostalism 101
Allan Patience 9 May 2021 Catholicism must grow up
David Timbs 4 May 2021 Our Christian heritage and the culture wars
Noel Turnbull 29 Apr 2021 Ramadan in Indonesia
Duncan Graham 22 Apr 2021 The religious recession
J.A. Dick 18 Apr 2021 Abuse in Catholic care is worse in New Zealand than Australia
Murray Heasley 14 Apr 2021 Hans Kung: a theologian for everyone
Paul Collins 13 Apr 2021 Another attempt to mute the voices of Catholic women
Gail Freyne 4 Apr 2021 Easter Homily: women have witnessed to the truth.
Frank Brennan 4 Apr 2021 Christ is risen, He is risen indeed
David Timbs 4 Apr 2021 ‘To err (and shame) is human, to forgive is divine’
Peter Day 2 Apr 2021 Reflecting on the lead up to Jesus' final week
David Timbs 2 Apr 2021 Instrumentum Laboris: A major disappointment
Catholics For Renewal 1 Apr 2021 Newman’s sermons as spiritual reading during Lent
The Tablet 31 Mar 2021 Some thoughts during Holy Week
Michael Kelly 29 Mar 2021 Statement in support of LGBTIQA+ Catholics
John Menadue 24 Mar 2021 Catholic renewal coalition discusses Plenary Council with Archbishops
Andrea Dean 19 Mar 2021 While we can ‘celebrate small victories’ Catholic women deserve much more
Patty Fawkner 8 Mar 2021 Your graces and my lord bishops of Australia: are you listening?
Chris Geraghty 21 Feb 2021 The Church and social justice after Trump
Bruce Duncan 21 Feb 2021 Plenary Council progress without transparency or inclusion for lay Catholics
John Warhurst 21 Feb 2021 Abortion: people want clear-cut answers but it's not that simple
J.A. Dick 14 Feb 2021 Catholic Bishops cannot govern their dioceses without pastoral councils
David Timbs 7 Feb 2021 To care for the sheep or to preserve Church doctrine? Faith groups are found wanting
Michael Leahy 18 Jan 2021 Joe Biden's Catholicism
Paul Collins 17 Jan 2021 How Steve Bannon tried to destroy Pope Francis (Counter Punch 3 Jan, 2021)
Counter Punch 11 Jan 2021 George Pell could comment 'Don't say I didn't warn you'
Paul Collins 10 Jan 2021 COVID-19: The Sabbath we had to have?
Peter Day 7 Jan 2021 Most viewed posts 2020: Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price (Sep 9, 2020)
Chris Geraghty 2 Jan 2021 Postmodernism, social justice, conspiracy theories and Jungian archetypes
John Cologon 24 Dec 2020 Faith when matter really matters
Paul Collins 24 Dec 2020 What the hell kind of Christmas is this?
William Grimm 23 Dec 2020 Merry Christmas - 2020 - Really?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Dec 2020 Waiting with hope for Church renewal.
Catholics For Renewal 18 Dec 2020 The Sunday Obligation resumes for fewer Catholics
Michael Mullins 13 Dec 2020 Faithful and Labor: What Labor Ignores at its Peril
Michael Easson 3 Dec 2020 George Browning. Is the Anglican Church about to split?
George Browning 23 Nov 2020 A Warrior Culture
George Browning 22 Nov 2020 We are called to be ‘Neighbours without Borders’
Patty Fawkner 15 Nov 2020 Does the McCarrick report exonerate Pope Francis? Yes and no.
Michael O’Loughlin 15 Nov 2020 Singing outside the chorus on "Fratelli Tutti"
Bill Uren 10 Nov 2020 Many of Trump's supporters feel disempowered by the elites
Frank Brennan 2 Nov 2020 Hand Washing or Social Distancing in the Time of Pell
Gail Freyne 1 Nov 2020 Vote for the Trump vision and not the person! (National Catholic Reporter Oct 26, 2020)
Michael Winters 25 Oct 2020 Pope Francis's rejection of 'neoliberal' economics
Bruce Duncan 25 Oct 2020 'Fratelli Tutti': Papal dreams or Vatican diversion? (Global Sisters Report Oct 19, 2020)
Ilia Delio 25 Oct 2020 Pope Francis on just wars, capital punishment and voluntary assisted dying
Kieran Tapsell 15 Oct 2020 Pope Francis's new encyclical On Human Fraternity and Social Friendship
Bruce Duncan 13 Oct 2020 The Beginning of the End?
Paul Collins 11 Oct 2020 The Catholic Church: who needs reform?
Gideon Goosen 9 Oct 2020 Short-termism is the enemy of good governance
Trish Hindmarsh 9 Oct 2020 Baptizing White Supremacy. An interview with Robert P. Jones
Regina Munch 2 Oct 2020 Grieving for the Lost Parish.- an institution on its knees.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 30 Sep 2020 Pope Francis on preparing a better future for humanity and our planet
Bruce Duncan 30 Sep 2020 Islam in Australia survey results (Australasian Muslim Times Sep 19, 2020)
Halim Rane 20 Sep 2020 The Catholic Church and Modern Science: From Contraception to the Covid Vaccine
Bill Uren 10 Sep 2020 Holy See response to Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission: another example of clericalist obstinance
Des Cahill, Peter Wilkinson 9 Sep 2020 Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price
Chris Geraghty 8 Sep 2020 The 2020 presidential campaign: a theological observation
J.A. Dick 6 Sep 2020 Pro-Trump Catholicism and the political consequences of a theological crisis (La Croix Sep 3, 2020)
Massimo Faggioli 2 Sep 2020 Pope Francis: We need to get serious about climate change and unfair economic systems
Bruce Duncan 26 Aug 2020 Archbishops, vaccines and COVID-19
Paul Collins 23 Aug 2020 Consumatum est: is the Australian Catholic church finished?
Garry Everett 20 Aug 2020 The Polding House Push and The Catholic Weekly Bugle.
David Timbs 18 Aug 2020 The effect of COVID-19 on religious habits
Michael Kelly 14 Aug 2020 The Australian Catholic Church's silent treatment
Garry Everett 13 Aug 2020 Endemic secrecy in the Catholic Church
Francis Sullivan 6 Aug 2020 A breach of faith with many thousands of Catholics.
John Warhurst 6 Aug 2020 Killing slowly to show love
Duncan Graham 31 Jul 2020 Reflections on sixty years as a priest .
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 26 Jul 2020 Hagia Sophia reconverted to Mosque
Paul Malone 24 Jul 2020 Pope Francis finally makes bishops accountable for cover-ups
Kieran Tapsell 15 Jul 2020 Knockers or Rockers of the Barque of Peter?
Trish Hindmarsh 13 Jul 2020 Bishops and branch stacking: the second oldest profession
David Timbs 8 Jul 2020 A dissenting opinion on a key Discernment Paper for the National Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia 2021-2022
Garry Everett 1 Jul 2020 NUALA KENNY. Disinfecting denial and secrecy.
John Menadue 30 Jun 2020 Catholics want reform
Peter Johnstone 29 Jun 2020 National Plenary Council Discernment Reports.
Terry Fewtrell, Andrew Phelan 17 Jun 2020 A Plenary of Broken Promises?
Gail Freyne 15 Jun 2020 Unlearning racism starts with deep listening
Toni Hassan 11 Jun 2020 The Light From the Southern Cross. A Report on Catholic Church Governance
Francis Sullivan 10 Jun 2020 TERRY FEWTRELL. . Catholic bishops need to give up secrecy and learn to trust
John Menadue 9 Jun 2020 Necessary disruption for church culture change to protect children
Michael Mullins 8 Jun 2020 GEORGE BROWNING. Trump vs Christianity
George Browning 8 Jun 2020 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. 'I can't breathe.'
Frank Brennan 8 Jun 2020 RICHARD R. GAILLARDETZ. A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion. One of the world's top ecclesiologists analyzes an unprecedented Church governance report
Richard Gaillardetz 5 Jun 2020 RICHARD R. GAILLARDETZ. May the Global Church Discover "Light from the Southern Cross." Review and analysis of "potentially groundbreaking document" on Church governance
Richard Gaillardetz 3 Jun 2020 PAUL COLLINS. First Step to a Better Church?
Paul Collins 2 Jun 2020 The Light From the Southern Cross. A report on Catholic Church Governance
John Menadue 2 Jun 2020 The New Rite of Baptism?
Post by mail 28 May 2020 PAUL COLLINS. Back to Nature
Paul Collins 26 May 2020 PETER WILKINSON AND GAIL GROSSMAN FREYNE. Historic Church Governance Report locked down by Australian Bishops
Peter Wilkinson, Gail Freyne 20 May 2020 GERRY MCKERNAN and PETER SHEEHAN. The Plenary Council: Where to after Coronavirus?
Gerry McKernan 13 May 2020 JOHN WARHURST. Catholic Bishops must embrace transparency and accountability
John Warhurst 12 May 2020 CHRIS GERAGHTY. Pell Again
Chris Geraghty 15 Apr 2020 JACK WATERFORD. Prosecution as an obstacle race
Jack Waterford 14 Apr 2020 JACK WATERORD. A free and innocent Pell, but not a martyr to any cause
Jack Waterford 10 Apr 2020 PAUL COLLINS. Meditating with J.S. Bach
Paul Collins 10 Apr 2020 SUSAN CONNELLY. The World is Full of Scapegoats
Susan Connelly 10 Apr 2020 MICHAEL MULLINS. Blind obedience and the Pell trial jury
Michael Mullins 9 Apr 2020 CHRIS GERAGHTY. The Pell Decision.
Chris Geraghty 8 Apr 2020 BRUCE DUNCAN. Faith and the Triple Crises of Corona Virus, Economic Shutdown and Climate Change.
Bruce Duncan 3 Apr 2020 ROBERT MICKENS. A priest-centered Church, confused and unprepared.
Robert Mickens 17 Mar 2020 KEVIN LISTON. The Amazon Synod and Australia
Kevin Liston 6 Mar 2020 SR PATTY FAWKNER SGS. Fires, floods and the season of Lent are inextricably linked
John Menadue 2 Mar 2020 ROBERT MICKENS. Catholics still don't get it: sexual abuse is not about sex. Jean Vanier violated the Second Commandment, not the Sixth
Robert Mickens 28 Feb 2020 MICHAEL MULLINS. Jean Vanier and the abuse of celebrity power
Michael Mullins 26 Feb 2020 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. New Wine, New Wine Skins.
John Menadue 3 Feb 2020 ELEANOR FLYNN et al. Australian Catholic Women still listening for leadership from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
John Menadue 27 Jan 2020 CHRIS McDONNELL. Many Years on from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
John Menadue 17 Jan 2020 DAVID BENTLEY HART. ‘The Enchantments of Mammon’ (A book review)
John Menadue 8 Jan 2020 KEVIN CLARKE. The U.S. killing of Soleimani could have devastating consequences for Iraq’s Christians
John Menadue 4 Jan 2020 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis begins the most important year of his pontificate.
Robert Mickens 2 Jan 2020 JOHN MENADUE. Failed leadership. A repost from 17 September 2018
John Menadue 30 Dec 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Francis is dragging the Church, kicking and screaming, into… the 20th century. The pope's reforms are seen as too modest by some, but too radical by others
Robert Mickens 25 Dec 2019 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN.-A Sermon for Christmas Day
John Menadue 24 Dec 2019 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -Christmas Lessons
John Menadue 24 Dec 2019 NURADZIMMAH DAIM.- Dr Mahathir Poses Questions on Muslim World Issues (Malaysian New Straits Times 19.12.2019)
John Menadue 24 Dec 2019 ALICE PRIEST. It’s beginning to look a lot unlike Christmas
John Menadue 24 Dec 2019 SR PATTY FAWKNER SGS. The Feast for the Frayed and Fatigued
John Menadue 23 Dec 2019 ERIC HODGENS.- Migration and the Christmas Story.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 23 Dec 2019 J.A. DICK. Spirited Community
John Menadue 23 Dec 2019 GILLIAN BOURAS. The light in John Henry Newman's darkness
John Menadue 22 Dec 2019 J.A. DICK. Christmas 2019
John Menadue 20 Dec 2019 DAVID SOLOMON. Religious freedom.
David Solomon 20 Dec 2019 KIERAN TAPSELL. Pope Francis Abolishes the Pontifical Secret Over Child Sexual Abuse.
Kieran Tapsell 20 Dec 2019 KAMRAN CHAUDHRY. Asia Bibi's freedom a victory for Pakistan's religious minorities.
John Menadue 20 Dec 2019 0SCAR ROMERO. Advent Readings from a Modern Martyr.
John Menadue 9 Dec 2019 GEORGE BROWNING. Peace on Earth, Good will towards all: Tale of Two Jerusalem Prizes
George Browning 3 Dec 2019 MARK EMERICK. Brisbane priest urges more help for West Papuans in exile following visit to PNG
John Menadue 2 Dec 2019 MICHAEL SAINSBURY. Back to basics for Pope at huge Tokyo Mass (UCA News 25-11-19)
Michael Sainsbury 2 Dec 2019 SAINT JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN. Advent is upon us.
John Menadue 29 Nov 2019 ROSEMARY O'GRADY. The Pell Appeal Judgements: One Perspective.
Rosemary O'Grady 28 Nov 2019 BENZI GOPSTEIN: Burning Christian churches in Israel justified ( Palestine Post 19-11-19)
John Menadue 25 Nov 2019 MICHAEL KELLY. Liberal culture and revelation
Michael Kelly 22 Nov 2019 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. What is to become of us?
Michael Kelly 22 Nov 2019 ERIC HODGENS. Pastoral Planning - A Church Crisis.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 14 Nov 2019 ALLAN PATIENCE. The ALP and the religious right in Australian politics
Allan Patience 14 Nov 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Catholic synodality as a response to the crisis of democracy.
Massimo Faggioli 13 Nov 2019 J. A. DICK. Political Religion and the Prosperity Gospel
John Menadue 6 Nov 2019 GARRY WILLS. Changing the ‘Changeless’ Church. A view of John O' Malley's 'When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I , and Vatican II'
John Menadue 5 Nov 2019 J.A. DICK. Faith Development or Stunted growth.
John Menadue 4 Nov 2019 RAMZY BAROUD. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that Nobody is Talking About (CounterPunch 31-10-19)
John Menadue 31 Oct 2019 RANDALL HEYN-LAMB. Episcopal Church officially bars investments in companies benefitting from the Israeli occupation (Mondoweiss 24-10-19)
John Menadue 29 Oct 2019 NICOLAS SENEZE. A book sheds light on mismanagement of Vatican's funds. Journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi reveals the tripling of the Holy See's budget deficit and how reforms are sabotaged by a Curia that opposes any control
John Menadue 25 Oct 2019 PETER DONNAN. The Plenary Council: Searching for Australian Catholics
Peter Donnan 24 Oct 2019 GEORGE BROWNING. Please Leave.Please Come Back
George Browning 16 Oct 2019 IAN JOHNSON. The Eastern Jesus. A review of R.S. Sugirtharajah's "Jesus in Asia"
John Menadue 15 Oct 2019 MARK O'CONNOR FMS. Letters from the Synod. There are new steps: Prophetic voices amaze and energise in first week of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region
John Menadue 14 Oct 2019 PRINCE CHARLES, THE PRINCE OF WALES. John Henry Newman: The harmony of difference
John Menadue 11 Oct 2019 MICHAEL MULLINS. The role of ordinary Catholics in clerical sex abuse
Michael Mullins 10 Oct 2019 THE SOUTHERN CROSS (Adelaide). New Vietnamese church a blessing. Our Lady of the Boat People.
John Menadue 9 Oct 2019 GERARD O'CONNELL. As Amazon Synod begins, Pope Francis looks to proceed with a ‘pastoral heart’
John Menadue 7 Oct 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. A controversial synod and an unusual consistor. Pope Francis doubles down on reforming the Church and the Vatican
Robert Mickens 4 Oct 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. The emergence of synodality and the inadequacy of canon law. Historically the Church has never been regulated exclusively by legal codes, says Massimo Faggioli
Massimo Faggioli 3 Oct 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis steps up his campaign for immigrants
Robert Mickens 24 Sep 2019 ROSEMARY O’GRADY. For the Record
Rosemary O'Grady 19 Sep 2019 ERIC HODGENS. Where Do We Find the Authentic Catholic Voice?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 13 Sep 2019 JAMES CHAPPEL. Weigel’s ‘Irony of Modern Catholic History’ in review.
John Menadue 11 Sep 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Brexit as a spiritual crisis: remain, leave, and an incarnational Church. The whole debate about leaving or remaining in the Catholic Church amid the sex abuse crisis is a form of ecclesial Brexit
Massimo Faggioli 10 Sep 2019 SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Religious Discrimination Bill
Spencer Zifcak 9 Sep 2019 DAVID TIMBS. Archbishop Comensoli needs to cut the ecclesiastical umbilical cord.
David Timbs 6 Sep 2019 MICHAEL LEAHY. The Catholic Weekly: seeking justice for Pell or waging a culture war?
John Menadue 6 Sep 2019 IVAN LEVINGSTON, DAVID WAINER. The Most Undiplomatic of Diplomats Is Trump’s Man in Middle East (Bloomberg 30-8-19)
John Menadue 5 Sep 2019 PAUL COLLINS. Ten new papal electors
Paul Collins 5 Sep 2019 NICHOLAS KRISTOF. What religion would Jesus belong to?
John Menadue 4 Sep 2019 NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER. Editorial: Those who dismiss Pell verdict ignore integrity of legal process
John Menadue 30 Aug 2019 CHRISTOPHER LAMB. Cardinal Pell analysis: What happens next? The Pell case has become something of a litmus te st for the church’s handling of abuse
John Menadue 27 Aug 2019 High Court should leave Pell alone. There’s no unresolved point of law, and no mere judicial disagreement on facts invites special leave
Jack Waterford 26 Aug 2019 Where to from here?
Paul Collins 26 Aug 2019 SR PATTY FAWKNER SGS. The Church – to include or not to include?
John Menadue 23 Aug 2019 PETER WILKINSON. Witness of truth wins justice in Pell appeal
John Menadue 23 Aug 2019 MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS. The Pell verdict: Various shades of justice | National Catholic Reporter
John Menadue 20 Aug 2019 CHRISTOPHER ALTIERI. Rarely has a Vatican official spoken so bluntly on abuse.
John Menadue 19 Aug 2019 Adapting to a ‘World Church’. A New Internatio nal Commentary on Vatican II
Massimo Faggioli 16 Aug 2019 PETER DALY. Tackle clericalism first when attempting priesthood reform | National Catholic Reporter
John Menadue 16 Aug 2019 J.A. DICK Sacralizing Politics
John Menadue 15 Aug 2019 No issue matters as much as climate change
Bruce Duncan 9 Aug 2019 KIERAN NOONAN. Respecting Sacred Spaces
John Menadue 7 Aug 2019 ERIC HODGENS. Catholic Culture Wars and the Pell legacy
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 6 Aug 2019 CONCERNED CATHOLICS CANBERRA GOULBURN. ‘Break open the word’ on Plenary Council, bishops urged
John Menadue 5 Aug 2019 PETER JOHNSTONE. Archbishop rejects top woman theologian – business as usual.
Peter Johnstone 2 Aug 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Diaspora and the globalization of the Catholic Church.
Massimo Faggioli 31 Jul 2019 JOSEPH MARTOS. Can laypeople lead a parish? Look to Louisville for a thriving example.
John Menadue 30 Jul 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. The rise of 'devout schismatics' in the Catholic Church. {La Croix International”, 16.7.2019)
Massimo Faggioli 29 Jul 2019 PAUL MOSES. Putting Church above Children. The Vatican Fails to Comply with a UN Treaty
John Menadue 25 Jul 2019 BISHOP VINCENT LONG-Australia’s Mandatory and Indefinite Off shore Detention Policy
John Menadue 25 Jul 2019 CARDINAL GEORGE PELL. Where have all the fighters gone?
John Menadue 24 Jul 2019 VIC ROWLANDS. Israel Folau - a line in the sand.
John Menadue 24 Jul 2019 J.A. DICK. Natural and Unnatural human rights
John Menadue 23 Jul 2019 ELISE HARRIS. Persecuted Christians urge more action, fewer empty words
John Menadue 22 Jul 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Reform or Dismantle? Why We Need to Keep the Institutions that Keep Us.
Massimo Faggioli 19 Jul 2019 PATTY FAWKNER, SGS. Chittister, Censorship and an Adult Church.
John Menadue 15 Jul 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Francis continues to make us all a bit uncomfortable - From his stance on migrants to his encyclical Laudato si', the pope causes controversy
Robert Mickens 10 Jul 2019 CHRIS MCDONNEL. A cry from the depths
John Menadue 8 Jul 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis is seeking to unite humanity
Robert Mickens 5 Jul 2019 KEVIN PEOPLES. Is the Male Clerical Church Irrelevant?
John Menadue 5 Jul 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Reforming the Church with 'no possibility of return.' How Pope Francis is initiating processes of Church reform that will be hard to undo.
Robert Mickens 4 Jul 2019 DONALD COZZENS. How much corruption can we tolerate in the church before we leave?
John Menadue 3 Jul 2019 BERNARD MOYLAN. Homily on Israel Folau
John Menadue 3 Jul 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis or Steve Bannon? Catholics must choose. American alt-right leader enlists Catholic allies to turn people against the pope
Robert Mickens 1 Jul 2019 DAVID TIMBS. Australia’s bishops are presently visiting the Pope. . What are they telling him and will Aus tralia’s ordinary Catholics ever find out?
David Timbs 28 Jun 2019 PAUL COLLINS. Give me a break!
Paul Collins 28 Jun 2019 FRANK BRENNAN. Our Church or Our Museum? Contributing to a confident, humble, listening, and questioning Church.
Frank Brennan 27 Jun 2019 WILLIAM GRIMM MM. What's under the miter? Legal systems and media exposure are the chief tools to deal with corruption among church leaders
John Menadue 26 Jun 2019 DAMIEN CAVE. She's 83 and a Famous Nun. Australia's Catholic Leaders Want Her to Stay Away
John Menadue 25 Jun 2019 BHIM BHURTEL. The threat to Christianity is from within. (Asia Times 21.6.2019)
John Menadue 24 Jun 2019 PAUL COLLINS. A badly governed Church needs a new model. Catholicism continues to wrestle with the unrealized vision of the Second Vatican Council.
Paul Collins 21 Jun 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Massimo Faggioli explores how conflicting memories of Nazi-Fascism on two continents is impacting global Catholicism. The European and American Catholic divide
Massimo Faggioli 19 Jun 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Vatican document on gender is like lipstick on a pig. The call for dialogue cannot disguise the text's uncompromising ideological views .
Robert Mickens 14 Jun 2019 PETER SINGER. Rugby Australia’s “Own Goal” (Project Syndicate 11.6.2019)
John Menadue 12 Jun 2019 KIERAN TAPSELL: Has the Pontifical Secret Been Secretly Buried?
Kieran Tapsell 12 Jun 2019 PAULINA GUZIK. Polish bishops hope 'knight of Malta' will help Church battle abuse. Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vatican's chief expert on clerical sex abuse, will visit Poland on Friday.
John Menadue 10 Jun 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. The current state of the priesthood and episcopacy seems to be in shambles. Broken trust in a broken clerical system.
Robert Mickens 5 Jun 2019 PETER JOHNSTONE. Is religious freedom code for a licence to discriminate?
Peter Johnstone 4 Jun 2019 DAVID MARR. The George Pell story is a long way from ending – even if he wins his appeal. The high court has often backed trial juries in child abuse cases, and looms over the verdict of the Melbourne judges
John Menadue 4 Jun 2019 PAUP KARP. Coalition delayed religious freedom reform and 'exploited' fear, Labor senator says. Deborah O’Neill points to ‘mischievous’ misinformation about Labor’s position on religious issues
John Menadue 3 Jun 2019 ELENIE POULOS. Winners and losers in the politics of religious freedom
John Menadue 31 May 2019 SR MONICA CAVANAGH RSJ. Letter to PM Scott Morrison from CRA President — Catholic Religious Australia
John Menadue 29 May 2019 MIKE KELLY. A smile.
John Menadue 28 May 2019 JOHN WARHURST. Church Governance Review Project Team Opportunity
John Warhurst 28 May 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. ‘Revolution’ in Poland as nation confronts priestly abuse.
John Menadue 28 May 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. A Postscript to Dignitatis Humanae. A New Vatican Document on Religious Freedom
Massimo Faggioli 27 May 2019 PHILIP ALMOND. Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison’s politics
John Menadue 27 May 2019 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN AUSTRALIA. May 21, 2019 Media release on Manus and Nauru asylum seekers.
John Menadue 27 May 2019 JONATHAN LUXMOORE. 'No words to express our shame': Polish bishops apologize for abuse
John Menadue 24 May 2019 MARILYN HATTON. Will the Australian Catholic Church face "the elephant in the room"?
John Menadue 24 May 2019 JOAN CHITTESTER St Benedict’s Rule offers fresh insight into age-old problem
John Menadue 23 May 2019 MILES LITTLE - Israel Folau. Free speech and its limits?
John Menadue 23 May 2019 NICK HALLETT. Christian persecution ‘near genocide levels’
John Menadue 21 May 2019 KIERAN TAPSELL: Pope Francis and the Closed Door Syndrome
Kieran Tapsell 21 May 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis' race against the clock. The 82-year-old pope looks increasingly like a man rushing to complete a mission
Robert Mickens 17 May 2019 ANTHONY HOGAN. The Christian Left – a case study of value driven social progressives?
Anthony Hogan 10 May 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. The Catholic Church and nationalism: The shadow of the 'long 19th century'
Massimo Faggioli 8 May 2019 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. The real culture war just down the road
Michael Kelly 7 May 2019 MICHAEL SAINSBURY. Australian Catholic Church - reform or die.
Michael Sainsbury 6 May 2019 MIKE KELLY. Spirituality and religion
John Menadue 3 May 2019 STEPHANIE LORENZO. Uncovering the Gender Inequality in my Church.
John Menadue 1 May 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Political leadership . Morrison or Shorten?
John Menadue 29 Apr 2019 FRIDAY FORUM. Easter Sunday's suffering in Sri Lanka - seeking and finding answers
John Menadue 26 Apr 2019 PAUL ELIE. What do the Church’s victims deserve?
John Menadue 22 Apr 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Benedict’s Untimely Meditation. How His Essay on Sex Abuse is Being Weaponized
Massimo Faggioli 19 Apr 2019 PATTY FAWKNER SGS. Vague wanting. Our lives, yours and mine, are too precious to fritter away on lukewarm commitments and half-hearted vows.
John Menadue 18 Apr 2019 GARRY EVERETT. “Worse things than dying.”
John Menadue 17 Apr 2019 MEGHAN SULLIVAN. Envisioning the Afterlife. The problem with Lazarus.
John Menadue 17 Apr 2019 JOSHUA J. McELWEE. In new letter, Benedict blames clergy abuse on sexual revolution, Vatican II theology.
John Menadue 12 Apr 2019 PAULINA GUZIK. Church in Poland struggles to address clerical sex abuse crisis
John Menadue 11 Apr 2019 CONCERNED CATHOLICS OF CANBERRA. A Catholic future - Out of hope not fear.
John Menadue 10 Apr 2019 ERIC HODGENS. Catholic Governance - A Challenge for Improvement.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 3 Apr 2019 GARRY EVERETT. Inertia or Inability?
John Menadue 2 Apr 2019 DAVID SMITH. Warrants for genocide
John Menadue 1 Apr 2019 MICHAEL LEAHY. Can the institutional Catholic Church be saved? Getting it back on Mission.
John Menadue 29 Mar 2019 CHARLES MOREROD The Church under pressure: Reform or counter-reform? Throughout history there has been no change in the Church without at least some external pressure
John Menadue 28 Mar 2019 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. After al-Noor, a new sense of “neighbour” is needed.
Stephanie Dowrick 27 Mar 2019 WILLIAM GRIMM MM. Schoolyard bullies in the sacristy. Sexual abuse by clergy should be blamed on emotionally immature men, not homosexuality or celibacy
John Menadue 25 Mar 2019 DANIEL P. HORAN. Francis of Assis's model for church reform may help in the abuse crisis
John Menadue 22 Mar 2019 PAUL COLLINS. Talking Heads in the Catholic Church
Paul Collins 21 Mar 2019 CRISTA PONGRATZ-LIPPITT. Renowned reformer: 'Church has 5 years for a complete turnaround or it's over'
John Menadue 19 Mar 2019 PETER DAY. To Light a Candle or Curse the Dark: The Cardinal Dilemma
John Menadue 15 Mar 2019 TERRY FEWTRELL. Canberra Catholics lay out church reform agenda.
John Menadue 13 Mar 2019 JOHN WARHURST. Why I am not leaving the Catholic Church
John Warhurst 12 Mar 2019 MARILYN HATTON. Why I’m not leaving the Catholic Church – despite everything
John Menadue 11 Mar 2019 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. Why stay?
John Menadue 6 Mar 2019 George Pell’s conviction and fragmentary memory
Michael Mullins 4 Mar 2019 GARRY EVERETT. Sex Only??
John Menadue 1 Mar 2019 STEPHEN de WEGER. Clerical sexual abuse of adults. Another blind spot.
John Menadue 28 Feb 2019 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. Pell conviction blows apart bishops' mantra
John Menadue 28 Feb 2019 BARNEY ZWARTZ. George Pell has fallen, but the cardinal's legacy casts a long shadow
John Menadue 27 Feb 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. The sex abuse summit and the Vatican's lack of transparency.
Robert Mickens 26 Feb 2019 PAUL COLLINS. Catholicism's Year from Hell
Paul Collins 21 Feb 2019 MARILYN HATTON. Pray and light a candle for our church in crisis.
John Menadue 15 Feb 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. An offer we must refuse in the Catholic Church ,big money
Massimo Faggioli 7 Feb 2019 GERARD O'CONNELL. Before arriving in U.A.E., pope challenges his hosts to help end Yemen crisis
John Menadue 5 Feb 2019 ROBERT MICKENS. The frequent-flier pope will soon face one of the biggest challenges of his pontificate
Robert Mickens 4 Feb 2019 CLAIRE GIANGRAVE. UN panel probes Italy’s role in Church’s child abuse scandals
John Menadue 30 Jan 2019 Eric Hodgens. Catholic Culture Wars.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 29 Jan 2019 PETER DONNAN. Is church reform supported by Australian Catholic media?
Peter Donnan 24 Jan 2019 GEORGE BROWNING. Is Christian Zionism contributing to the Israel Palestine Impasse?
George Browning 21 Jan 2019 PATSY MCGARRY. Church response to modern abuse scandals 'same as 30 years ago.'
John Menadue 18 Jan 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. A Church within the Church. Behind the new integralism is the old intransigentism. (La Croix International, 9.1 2019)
Massimo Faggioli 17 Jan 2019 SANG JIEJA. Tibetans get home decor order: Hang Xi, Mao portrait
John Menadue 11 Jan 2019 JONATHAN WEISMAN. American Jews and Israeli Jews break up
John Menadue 11 Jan 2019 PETER WOODRUFF. What Matters at the Show and in the Church.
John Menadue 11 Jan 2019 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Why I cannot even think about leaving the Catholic Church (La Croix International).
Massimo Faggioli 10 Jan 2019 GARRY EVERETT. A Legal Leap of Faith?
John Menadue 10 Jan 2019 CHRISTOPHER LAMB. Pope Francis comes out in support of Macron and Merkel in warning against the resurgence of Nationalism.
John Menadue 7 Jan 2019 BRIAN COYNE. A response to Paul Collins' "The real crisis of Australian Catholicism".
Paul Collins 2 Jan 2019 PAUL COLLINS. The Best of 2018: The Real Crisis of Australian Catholicism.
Paul Collins 29 Dec 2018 All we want for Christmas is bishops who listen and act
Peter Wilkinson 29 Dec 2018 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Pope Francis's struggle
Massimo Faggioli 28 Dec 2018 ALLAN PATIENCE. Anthony Fisher’s message of ill will at Christmas tide
Allan Patience 24 Dec 2018 ERIC HODGENS. The True Christmas Spirit Embraces the New.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 24 Dec 2018 TONY DOHERTY. Do we really know the Christmas Story?
John Menadue 22 Dec 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Glad tidings of great welcome
Stephanie Dowrick 21 Dec 2018 GEORGE BROWNING. Peace on Earth, Goodwill to all Humankind
George Browning 21 Dec 2018 MICHAEL SAINSBURY Vatican names two reconciled bishops to head Chinese dioceses Catholic News Service, 17.12.18)
Michael Sainsbury 19 Dec 2018 PETER DAY. From Classical Christianity to Quantum Christianity.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2018 DAVID TIMBS. The Pax Romana and the Gospel of Disturbance.
David Timbs 14 Dec 2018 BILL EDEBOHLS. Advent – Pulling no punches
John Menadue 13 Dec 2018 PATTY FAWKNER. Honouring the stranger-guest-host relationship (The Good Oil).
John Menadue 12 Dec 2018 JOHN WARHURST. Catholics grow restless at bishops’ lethargy.
John Warhurst 5 Dec 2018 JOCELYN CHEY. Xi Jinping V. Allah
Jocelyn Chey 3 Dec 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Who Is manipulating what?
John Menadue 29 Nov 2018 TERRY FEWTRELL. Seems Pope Francis is with the People
John Menadue 27 Nov 2018 PAUL COLLINS. The On-going Threat of Fundamentalism
Paul Collins 23 Nov 2018 ALEXANDER STILLE. The Sins of Celibacy.
John Menadue 21 Nov 2018 WILLIAM GRIMM. The Catholic Church's one foundation (UCA News).
John Menadue 17 Nov 2018 JOHN HANNON. What is good leadership? Lest we forget.
John Menadue 14 Nov 2018 NCR EDITORIAL STAFF-Open letter to the US Catholic bishops: It's over (National Catholic Reporter).
John Menadue 7 Nov 2018 Three Religious Elephants
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 3 Nov 2018 MICHAEL MCGIRR. Christianity tells stories; Islam finds designs (Eureka Street, 30.10.18)
John Menadue 29 Oct 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Critical yeast in critical times.
John Menadue 25 Oct 2018 GARY SANDS. Vatican–China relations are warming up, but at what cost?
John Menadue 24 Oct 2018 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. The Catholic Church’s Biggest Crisis Since the Reformation.
Massimo Faggioli 24 Oct 2018 FRANK BRENNAN. Compassion and justice after abuse apology.
Frank Brennan 23 Oct 2018 DEBRA VERMEER. 70 years since six Good Samaritans set sail for Nagasaki.
John Menadue 20 Oct 2018 ERIC HODGENS. The Fifties – Werribee’s Greatest Years.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 19 Oct 2018 CHRIS GERAGHTY. Faith-based Beliefs or Long-held Prejudices.
Chris Geraghty 18 Oct 2018 MICHAEL PASCOE. Scott Morrison’s Australia resembles the 51st American state (the New Daily, 17.10.18)
Michael Pascoe 15 Oct 2018 KIM WINGEREI. A Secular Nation
Kim Wingerei 15 Oct 2018 MARGARET O'CONNOR. Changing the culture of the church.
John Menadue 12 Oct 2018 JOHN HANNON. Complexities of Catholic marriage.
John Menadue 12 Oct 2018 TONY COADY. The Synod, the Celibacy Rule, the Wider Problem of Radical Change in the Catholic Church
John Menadue 11 Oct 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Revisiting the Theology of Clericalism.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 2 Oct 2018 GERALDINE DOOGUE, AMY DONALDSON. Bill Hayden explains why he decided to be baptised.
John Menadue 1 Oct 2018 DOUG TAYLOR. Uniting Church launches new decriminalisation campaign.
John Menadue 29 Sep 2018 JOHN WARHURST. The power of the Catholic lobby. (Canberra Times 27/9/2018)
John Warhurst 26 Sep 2018 BRUCE KAYE. The Prime Minister’s Pentecostal Christianity and neo liberalism.
John Menadue 24 Sep 2018 ROBERT MICKENS. How serious is Pope Francis about eradicating clericalism?
Robert Mickens 22 Sep 2018 DAVID TIMBS. The priest shortage and the elephant in the room.
David Timbs 22 Sep 2018 GEORGE BROWNING. HOMO SAPIENS - REALLY?
George Browning 20 Sep 2018 TROY BRAMSTON. Ex-Labor leader Bill Hayden, 85, baptised into Catholic Church.
John Menadue 19 Sep 2018 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Flirting with Church schism.
Massimo Faggioli 17 Sep 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Failed leadership in church and state. Repost from 24 August 2018
John Menadue 17 Sep 2018 Scott Morrison, the 'prosperity gospel' and neoliberalism.
Bruce Duncan 14 Sep 2018 Bishop Long and other religious leaders denounce asylum-seeker policy.
John Menadue 13 Sep 2018 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Religious Persecution and Home Churches in China.
Michael Kelly 11 Sep 2018 ELIZABETH EVATT. Where are the threats to religious freedom?
John Menadue 11 Sep 2018 GARRY EVERETT. No Way To Start.
John Menadue 8 Sep 2018 KIERAN TAPSELL. The Australian Church Response to the Royal Commission Final Report on the Pontifical Secret.
Kieran Tapsell 7 Sep 2018 ANTHONY HOGAN. Can we start again please? Towards reform of the Catholic Church?
Anthony Hogan 6 Sep 2018 BRIAN COYNE. Rupert Murdoch and the increasing division in society
John Menadue 6 Sep 2018 PETER WOODRUFF. Open letter to Pope Francis on “The Pope as a Game Changer”
John Menadue 5 Sep 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Have we learnt nothing?
John Menadue 4 Sep 2018 The Prime Minister: personal faith and public values
George Browning 1 Sep 2018 GARRY WILLS. The Priesthood of The Big Crazy (The New York Review of Books, 23.08.18)
John Menadue 29 Aug 2018 JOHN CARMODY: The Catholic Right
John Menadue 29 Aug 2018 ANTONIO SPADARO SJ. The prosperity gospel-dangerous and different
John Menadue 29 Aug 2018 JERRY ROBERTS Politics and Religion
Jerry Roberts 27 Aug 2018 ROBERT MICKENS. The pope’s bewildering inaction on sexual abuse.
Robert Mickens 25 Aug 2018 NATALIE ACTON. A revolution that starts in the heart.
John Menadue 10 Aug 2018 Catholic bishops’ opposition to Donald Trump emboldens church liberals.
John Menadue 8 Aug 2018 PAUL COLLINS. Breaking the Seal.
Paul Collins 7 Aug 2018 FRANK BRENNAN. A planet to heal (Hiroshima Remembrance Ecumenical Service, Adamstown Uniting Church, Newcastle, 5 August 2018).
Frank Brennan 7 Aug 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Humanae Vitae – A 50 Year Odyssey.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 6 Aug 2018 BERNARD MOYLAN. Scandals In The Church.
John Menadue 4 Aug 2018 GOOD READING AND LISTENING FOR THE WEEKEND
John Menadue 3 Aug 2018 VINCENT CHEOK. If spirituality or religion has a bearing on geopolitics then Australia needs to understand what moves the spirit and soul of India and China for our Asian neighbours will be the new global superpowers in a new multipolar multilateral world.
John Menadue 3 Aug 2018 ROBERT MICKENS. The Pope's long, hot summer. (La Croix 27/7/2018)
Robert Mickens 1 Aug 2018 CHRIS BONNOR. Catholic schools’ funding: here we go again.
Chris Bonnor 1 Aug 2018 MURRAY HEASLEY. On witch-hunts and the Kiwi way: the proposed New Zealand Historical Abuse in State Care Royal Commission.
John Menadue 28 Jul 2018 SUSAN RYAN. The Irish teaching orders in Australia.
Susan Ryan (Dec'd) 28 Jul 2018 JOHN WARHURST. Let's talk about the Catholic bishops.
John Warhurst 26 Jul 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Spare A Thought for the New Archbishop.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 24 Jul 2018 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Woe to the shepherds (Homily, 22.07.18 at St Michaels’ Church, Kaleen)
Frank Brennan 23 Jul 2018 PETER JOHNSTONE. Breaking the seal for the common good.
Peter Johnstone 21 Jul 2018 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. 'La Civiltà Cattolica' rails against prosperity Gospel and its support for Trump.
Massimo Faggioli 21 Jul 2018 MALISE RUTHVEN. God on Our Side.(New York Review of Books)
John Menadue 20 Jul 2018 PATTY FAWKNER. How power has hijacked the parable of the Good Samaritan.
John Menadue 20 Jul 2018 ANTHONY HOGAN. Law and the seal of Catholic confessional.
Anthony Hogan 19 Jul 2018 JOHN GEHRING. Catholic evolution on L.G.B.T. rights (New York Times International Edition 07/07/18)
John Menadue 17 Jul 2018 PETER DAY: The Endarkenment
John Menadue 16 Jul 2018 JOHN HANNON. Where and who are the prophetic voices today? (a homily)
John Menadue 12 Jul 2018 JOHN WARHURST. Major Catholic church consultation ambitious - but will it succeed? (Canberra Times 5/7/2018)
John Warhurst 7 Jul 2018 MICHAEL KELLY. Change of era in Oz.
Michael Kelly 4 Jul 2018 FRANK BRENNAN. The sentencing of Archbishop Wilson. (Eureka Street 3/7/2018)
Frank Brennan 30 Jun 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Storms and Synods.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 28 Jun 2018 PATTY FAWKNER. Silence is golden – and it also kills.
John Menadue 27 Jun 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Archbishop Coleridge and the culture of confusion.
John Menadue 26 Jun 2018 ROSS DOUTHAT. '#Me Too' comes for the Cardinal (New York Times)
John Menadue 22 Jun 2018 JOANNE McCARTHY. Bishop breaks ranks on church report into child abuse royal commission (SMH 21/6/2018)
John Menadue 20 Jun 2018 GARRY EVERETT. The Catholic Church at the crossroads.
John Menadue 18 Jun 2018 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Bangladesh wake-up call on sexual abuse for Asia's bishops.
Michael Kelly 16 Jun 2018 HANS ZOLLER SJ. Protecting children in the Catholic Church
John Menadue 15 Jun 2018 JOANNE McCARTHY. Australia's bishops still don't get it - things have changed (SMH 13/6/2018)
John Menadue 11 Jun 2018 GARRY J. EVERETT. The culture of the church - some personal experiences.
John Menadue 11 Jun 2018 ANTHONY HOGAN. Religion and the question of voluntary assisted suicide.
Anthony Hogan 8 Jun 2018 KIERAN TAPSELL. The ball is in Pope Francis's court over the culture of cover-up.
Kieran Tapsell 4 Jun 2018 ROBYN WHITAKER. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are.
John Menadue 2 Jun 2018 RYAN DAGUR. Indonesia won't revoke list of approved Islamic preachers.
John Menadue 1 Jun 2018 BRUCE DUNCAN. A stringent critique of financial abuse.
Bruce Duncan 31 May 2018 PETER JOHNSTONE. Bishops in the headlights.
Peter Johnstone 29 May 2018 ROBERT MICKENS. Chile’s bishops offer their resignations en masse.
Robert Mickens 24 May 2018 MICHAEL MULLINS. Wilson conviction exposes Australian bishops’ lack of contrition
Michael Mullins 24 May 2018 The Plenary Council
Chris Geraghty 23 May 2018 PETER DAY. An Open Letter to Pope Francis
John Menadue 22 May 2018 PAUL COLLINS Stop the Buck-passing and Resign.
Paul Collins 19 May 2018 The Vicar of Bray
John Menadue 17 May 2018 DAVID TIMBS. The Catholic Church in Australia. Who has the Moral Authority?
David Timbs 15 May 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Reading the Christian Story Properly.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 9 May 2018 SUSAN RYAN. Book launch. 'Jesus the forgotten feminist' by Chris Geraghty.
Susan Ryan (Dec'd) 8 May 2018 CHRIS GERAGHTY. Jesus – The Forgotten Feminist.
Chris Geraghty 2 May 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Would ordaining women save the Catholic Church?
Stephanie Dowrick 1 May 2018 Public servant to the First Australians.
Frank Brennan 30 Apr 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Consultation as seduction.
John Menadue 21 Apr 2018 GARRY EVERETT. Importance of seeing the ‘big picture’.
John Menadue 19 Apr 2018 SAMUEL LIEVEN. Why Syria's patriarchs back Assad
John Menadue 14 Apr 2018 Pope Francis admits mistakes in Chile
John Menadue 13 Apr 2018 ANDREW HAMILTON. Clerical culture produces poor fruit.
John Menadue 12 Apr 2018 PETER DAY. “Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted,” Mr Folau.
John Menadue 7 Apr 2018 EDMUND CAMPION. On Cardinal Gilroy At The Sydney Institute.
John Menadue 6 Apr 2018 JOHN WARHURST. Mud-wrestling the Catholic elephant.
John Warhurst 5 Apr 2018 FRANK BRENNAN. Let’s be less shrill about Church-State relations
Frank Brennan 2 Apr 2018 PETER JOHNSTONE. Catholic Reform Groups Want Urgent Action from Bishops.
Peter Johnstone 30 Mar 2018 ROBYN J WHITAKER. Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here’s why that matters
John Menadue 30 Mar 2018 ERIC HODGENS: Common-wealth versus Common-loss.
Easter and Australian Politics.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 30 Mar 2018 NICOLAS SENÈZE. Rediscovering the role of Mary Magdalene as 'apostle of the apostles'.
John Menadue 29 Mar 2018 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. CEO Truth Justice and Healing Council.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2018 BRUCE DUNCAN. Was God just a spectator at the Crucifixion?
Bruce Duncan 23 Mar 2018 PAT POWER. Quo Vadis? The Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia
John Menadue 5 Mar 2018 PAUL COLLINS. The Real Crisis of Australian Catholicism.
Paul Collins 26 Feb 2018 PATTY FAWKNER. Calls for change within the Church will be its salvation.
John Menadue 13 Feb 2018 Should Australian Catholic Bishops be Trusted?
Peter Johnstone 12 Feb 2018 Pope Francis, a brewing crisis and 'feminine genius'
Robert Mickens 1 Feb 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Weapons of Moral Destruction
Stephanie Dowrick 12 Jan 2018 "Catastrophic institutional failure" can be fixed
Kieran Tapsell 5 Jan 2018 ERIC HODGENS. Melbourne’s New Archbishop.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 2 Jan 2018 PHIL GRANO. A personal response to the marriage equality postal survey.
John Menadue 29 Dec 2017 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. Australian Catholic Church must take abuse commission report seriously or risk irrelevance A REPOST
John Menadue 27 Dec 2017 JASON HOROWITZ. Cardinal's death highlights sex abuse divide.
John Menadue 25 Dec 2017 Pope Francis, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants.
John Menadue 23 Dec 2017 JOHN HANNON. Failed leadership and systemic failure
John Menadue 23 Dec 2017 MARILYN HATTON and MOIRA COOMBS. Catholic women speak out.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2017 MARK METHERELL and JOHN WARHURST. Royal Commission provides almanac for what Catholic bishops should do now.
John Warhurst 21 Dec 2017 PATTY FAWKNER SGS. Of Mary and Maya.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. Secrets and the Royal Commission's final report.
Kieran Tapsell 21 Dec 2017 ERIC HODGENS. Christmas Prompts Reflection on Power.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Dec 2017 KIM OATES. The Royal Commission, a beginning, not an end.
Kim Oates 20 Dec 2017 HUGH MACKAY. Another kind of deficit
Hugh Mackay 20 Dec 2017 TONY DOHERTY. A Christmas reflection.
John Menadue 20 Dec 2017 JOHN TULLOH. Onward Christian Soldiers – but not all of them.
John Tulloh 19 Dec 2017 BRUCE DUNCAN. What would Jesus make of our Christmas?
Bruce Duncan 19 Dec 2017 DES CAHILL and PETER WILKINSON. Clericalism, celibacy and child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia
John Menadue 19 Dec 2017 PAUL COLLINS - Will the Vatican play ball?
Paul Collins 18 Dec 2017 KEVIN PEOPLES. An end of sorts.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2017 MICHAEL MULLINS. Mothballing the clerical collar would help prevent clergy sexual abuse
Michael Mullins 15 Dec 2017 JOHN MENADUE Repost of a Submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
John Menadue 15 Dec 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. Public relations responses to Royal Commission
Peter Johnstone 15 Dec 2017 SANITSUDA EKACHAI. Why Buddhists fail simple test of compassion
John Menadue 14 Dec 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. A Catholic reflection on the Royal Commission as the curtain closes on Act One.
Frank Brennan 13 Dec 2017 GEORGE BROWNING. Child sexual abuse, the Church and the Royal Commission.
George Browning 13 Dec 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. The Seal of Confession: resorting to the Age of Christendom
Peter Johnstone 12 Dec 2017 PAUL COLLINS. The Royal Commission—a mixed blessing
Paul Collins 8 Dec 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. The Royal Commission Report on the Melbourne Archdiocese
Kieran Tapsell 8 Dec 2017 LARRY JAGAN. Suu Kyi should heed Pope's suggestion on UN role
John Menadue 4 Dec 2017 DONELLA JOHNSTON. Why women should run the Catholic Church.
John Menadue 4 Dec 2017 MICHAEL KELLY. The Pope in Asia
Michael Kelly 1 Dec 2017 BRUCE WEARNE A Suggestion to the Ruddock Committee
John Menadue 30 Nov 2017 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Pope Francis and The Lady meet
Michael Kelly 23 Nov 2017 IAN MACPHEE. A deeper view of the Rohingya crisis than media provide.
Ian Macphee 23 Nov 2017 MICHAEL KELLY. What brings a Jesuit Pope to Asia?
Michael Kelly 21 Nov 2017 PATTY FAWKNER. The mystery of death and life
John Menadue 21 Nov 2017 Justice Peter McClellan says Police had an 'understanding' to protect churches from scandal
John Menadue 20 Nov 2017 Catholic Church 2020 Plenary Council: bishops must tap into the grassroots without delay
Peter Wilkinson 14 Nov 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. Same sex marriage and freedom of religion
Frank Brennan 13 Nov 2017 BRUCE DUNCAN. Pope Francis under attack
Bruce Thom 10 Nov 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. An ill-informed plenary council for the Catholic Church.
Peter Johnstone 2 Nov 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. A mate's take on Rudd's call to arms.
Frank Brennan 1 Nov 2017 KEVIN PEOPLES. The Dangers of a Feminine Touch
John Menadue 27 Oct 2017 STEPHEN DUCKETT. Assisted dying is one thing, but governments must ensure palliative care is available to all who need it
Stephen Duckett 25 Oct 2017 MICHAEL KELLY. The weakest to the wall.
Michael Kelly 25 Oct 2017 ERIC HODGENS. What Makes Australia’s Catholic Bishops Tick?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 18 Oct 2017 GEORGE BROWNING. Violence and Religion
George Browning 10 Oct 2017 PETER DAY. One of us: the sanity behind an act of insanity
John Menadue 6 Oct 2017 WE ARE ALSO READING AND LISTENING TO ...
John Menadue 27 Sep 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. University report lifts the lid on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
Kieran Tapsell 21 Sep 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. Same sex marriage and freedom of religion.
Frank Brennan 18 Sep 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE Catholics,can definitely vote 'Yes'
Peter Johnstone 14 Sep 2017 MICHAEL MULLINS. Civil and religious marriage are best kept separate.
Michael Mullins 13 Sep 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. The Catholic Church is ‘Circling the Wagons’
Peter Johnstone 12 Sep 2017 ANNE O’BRIEN. Clericalism is alive and well in the Catholic Church
John Menadue 4 Sep 2017 ARCHBISHOP FISHER. Does Pope Francis support same-sex marriage?
John Menadue 1 Sep 2017 PETER DAY. When Church leaders forget to tell the story that liberates.
John Menadue 31 Aug 2017 CHRIS MIDDLETON. 'The Church's teaching, if it isn't expressed in terms of love - then it's got it wrong.'
John Menadue 30 Aug 2017 JOHN MENADUE. When will Saudi Arabia be brought to account for its malign influence and promotion of terrorism?
John Menadue 28 Aug 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. (Announcement) International Authority on the Church’s Governance to visit Australia
Peter Johnstone 24 Aug 2017 PHIL O’DONNELL. A Tale of Two Churches
John Menadue 23 Aug 2017 HUGH MACKAY. What the Census really said about religion.
Hugh Mackay 23 Aug 2017 GEORGE BROWNING. Confession and Child Abuse
George Browning 23 Aug 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. Sex Abuse and the Seal of the Confessional
Kieran Tapsell 22 Aug 2017 PAUL COLLINS. Marriage equality - some thoughts for the perplexed.
Paul Collins 21 Aug 2017 The Myth About Marriage
John Menadue 18 Aug 2017 PAUL COLLINS. An Open Letter to Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher
Paul Collins 31 Jul 2017 WILLIAM GRIMM. Why have US Catholics turned right? And Paul's epistle to the Fallopians
John Menadue 24 Jul 2017 MARGARET O'CONNOR. Reforming the Catholic Church: it's up to the laity
John Menadue 21 Jul 2017 BRUCE DUNCAN. Curious Vatican article challenges right-wing US Catholics
Bruce Duncan 13 Jul 2017 JOHN MENADUE. The Catholic bishops don’t understand their responsibility and accountability. (Repost from 27 February 2017)
John Menadue 12 Jul 2017 FR. MICHAEL KELLY. Christianity isn’t the answer
Michael Kelly 10 Jul 2017 MARK METHERELL. Church chooses plenary team behind closed doors while saying it can’t be business as usual
John Menadue 7 Jul 2017 JOHN MENADUE. Why I am still a Catholic
John Menadue 6 Jul 2017 TIM COLEBATCH. One census, three stories
John Menadue 5 Jul 2017 PETER DAY. “Hands-up if you think George is guilty!”
John Menadue 4 Jul 2017 DOUBTFUL OPTIMIST. The violent and dangerous religion in New Zealand
John Menadue 3 Jul 2017 GERALDINE DOOGUE. Flawed Catholic Church a test for the true believers
John Menadue 30 Jun 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. A Different Scorecard on Pope Francis
Kieran Tapsell 9 Jun 2017 MICHAEL KELLY. Time to think outside the square for the Church in China
Michael Kelly 9 Jun 2017 GEORGE BROWNING. Monotheism, Terrorism and Injustice
George Browning 7 Jun 2017 PETER OLSZEWSKI. Still banging away – Michael Kelly as a media mogul.
John Menadue 2 Jun 2017 PAUL COLLINS. There’s Movement at the (Radio) Station
Paul Collins 25 May 2017 JOHN WARHURST. Catholic Citizens needed within Church
John Warhurst 25 May 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. 'The Attachment' by Ailsa Piper and Tony Doherty.
Kieran Tapsell 23 May 2017 LYNDSAY CONNORS. The Tangled Education Web. Part 2 of 2: The Catholic Story
John Menadue 23 May 2017 CAVAN HOGUE. Trump and the Wahhabis
Cavan Hogue 15 May 2017 MARK METHERELL. The need for Catholic Church Reform
John Menadue 13 Apr 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops of Australia
Peter Johnstone 12 Apr 2017 ROB BRIAN. Easter Reflections
John Menadue 12 Apr 2017 MAUREEN BRIAN. Easter – Radical Awareness
John Menadue 11 Apr 2017 MASSIMO FAGGIOLI. Are US Catholics too American to stand up to Trump?
Massimo Faggioli 11 Apr 2017 And Jesus said unto Paul of Ryan ...
John Menadue 10 Apr 2017 PATTY FAWKNER. The pattern of all life.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. The Royal Commission, Religious Liberty and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Kieran Tapsell 23 Mar 2017 ERIC HODGENS. Back to following The Way.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 17 Mar 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. A Response to Francis Sullivan
Kieran Tapsell 16 Mar 2017 JONATHAN PAGE. Who Pays The Ferryman? Befriending Death.
John Menadue 15 Mar 2017 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. Where to from here?
John Menadue 8 Mar 2017 ERIC HODGENS. The Catholic Dilemma.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 8 Mar 2017 GEOFFREY ROBINSON. The Royal Commission.
John Menadue 7 Mar 2017 JOHN MENADUE. Failed Leadership in Church and State!
John Menadue 5 Mar 2017 GARRY EASTMAN. Response to Jack Waterford: We need a Catholic Yom Kippur, and a serious sacrifice.
John Menadue 3 Mar 2017 CHRIS GERAGHTY. Jesus and CFMEU
Chris Geraghty 3 Mar 2017 KIERAN TAPSELL. Vatican Reform on Child Sexual Abuse in Disarray - Does Pope Francis get it?
Kieran Tapsell 2 Mar 2017 JACK WATERFORD. We need a Catholic Yom Kippur, and a serious sacrifice.
Jack Waterford 1 Mar 2017 PAT POWER. The Royal Commission and the need for reform.
John Menadue 28 Feb 2017 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. The Catholic wrap-up at the Royal Commission.
Frank Brennan 22 Feb 2017 BRIAN COYNE. The randomness and chanciness of life...
John Menadue 21 Feb 2017 ERIC HODGENS. The need for new Church Leadership.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Feb 2017 PETER DAY. 'The smell of the sheep' (Pope Francis)
John Menadue 17 Feb 2017 PETER JOHNSTONE. What sort of bishops do Catholics want?
Peter Johnstone 17 Feb 2017 CHRIS BONNOR. A trans-Tasman story out of school
Chris Bonnor 16 Feb 2017 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. The Catholic wrap-up at the Royal Commission
Frank Brennan 14 Feb 2017 KATHLEEN McPHILLIPS. Royal commission hearings show Catholic Church faces a massive reform task.
John Menadue 13 Feb 2017 Catholic Church and the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
John Menadue 11 Feb 2017 Local boy makes good!
John Menadue 10 Feb 2017 JAMES CARROL. Pope Francis is the anti-Trump.
John Menadue 8 Feb 2017 TERRY LAIDLER. 'Catholic Clericalism'
Terry Laidler 8 Feb 2017 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Six archbishops examined by Australian judge.
Michael Kelly 6 Feb 2017 PETER DAY. Catholic Archbishops to front Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
John Menadue 2 Feb 2017 PETER DAY. Trump’s Tower of Babel
John Menadue 11 Jan 2017 DENIS FITZGERALD. Non-violence is the key to peace, and it starts at home.
John Menadue 5 Jan 2017 ERIC HODGENS. Epiphany – A Supernova In Full Eruption.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 23 Dec 2016 ANDREW AILES. Peace on earth - the children of Aleppo.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Seasonal favourites.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2016 PETER DAY. Grandpa’s favourite Shepherd
John Menadue 22 Dec 2016 GERALDINE DOOGUE. Connections in our lives.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2016 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. 2017 for Pope Francis: what to expect.
Michael Kelly 22 Dec 2016 ERIC HODGENS. Christmas – An Epiphany.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 3 Dec 2016 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Understanding challenges the church in Asia faces.
Michael Kelly 21 Nov 2016 PETER JOHNSTONE. The Royal Commission and the Catholic Church’s Dysfunctional Governance
Peter Johnstone 15 Oct 2016 PETER DAY. Is western civilisation bored?
John Menadue 14 Oct 2016 Catholic Bishops - It Is Time To Bring Them Here
John Menadue 14 Oct 2016 LYNDSAY CONNORS. Cometh the hour, cometh the man?
John Menadue 12 Oct 2016 KIERAN TAPSELL. The Royal Commission and Religious Liberty
Kieran Tapsell 5 Sep 2016 MICHAEL KELLY S.J. Making saints.
Michael Kelly 2 Sep 2016 BRUCE DUNCAN. Don’t blame welfare for budget woes
Bruce Duncan 29 Aug 2016 MILTON MOON. Waiting for Godness -a narrative poem
John Menadue 26 Aug 2016 FRANK BRENNAN. Why Turnbull has no option other than a plebiscite on Same Sex Marriage
Frank Brennan 24 Aug 2016 PETER JOHNSTONE. A Plenary Synod in 2020 for the Australian Catholic Church
Peter Johnstone 23 Aug 2016 PAUL COLLINS. Sniffing the Ecclesiastical Wind
Paul Collins 1 Aug 2016 DALLY MESSENGER. A letter to Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten concerning refugees.
John Menadue 30 Jul 2016 DEAN ASHENDEN. State aide, the ALP and the 'needs policy'.
John Menadue 26 Jul 2016 PETER DAY. The Lord’s Prayer: beyond lip service
John Menadue 22 Jul 2016 ALLAN PATIENCE. Why the debates about Islam have gone off the rails
Allan Patience 17 Jul 2016 FRANCIS SULLIVAN. Economic Inequality is a Wound on our Nation: Can It be Healed?
John Menadue 14 Jul 2016 ROBERT MICKENS. Pope Francis clips Cardinal Pell's wings.
Robert Mickens 9 Jul 2016 PAUL COLLINS. How powerful is Pell in Australia?
Paul Collins 9 Jul 2016 PETER DAY. The Parable of the Good Muslim
John Menadue 31 May 2016 JOHN O'DONOGUE: On Compassion - even for people who are 'different'
John Menadue 24 May 2016 ANN GILROY RSJ: A Response to Pope Francis’s Commission on Women Deacons
John Menadue 18 May 2016 CAROLINE RYAN. Women deacons or women cardinals?
John Menadue 18 May 2016 TONY DOHERTY. Women deacons.
John Menadue 17 May 2016 PAUL COLLINS. ‘Theodora the Bishop’: Pope Francis and Women Deacons
Paul Collins 30 Apr 2016 Robert Mickens. Cardinal Pell and the Vatican power struggle.
Robert Mickens 26 Apr 2016 John Tulloh. The odd couple - the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and their uneasy relationship.
John Tulloh 9 Apr 2016 Kieran Tapsell. Cardinal Barbarin and accountability.
Kieran Tapsell 7 Apr 2016 Kieran Tapsell. Bishop Ronald Mulkearns: Blaming the Foot Soldier
Kieran Tapsell 6 Apr 2016 John Tulloh. Erdogan leads Turkey back to the Ottoman era.
John Tulloh 26 Mar 2016 Michael Kelly SJ. Washing feet, culture and religion.
Michael Kelly 24 Mar 2016 Eric Hodgens. Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 24 Mar 2016 Paul Collins. Where, O death is now thy sting?
Paul Collins 24 Mar 2016 Bruce Duncan. Perplexed by Easter
Bruce Duncan 18 Mar 2016 Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis supports social revolution among the Zapatistas in Mexico
Bruce Duncan 18 Mar 2016 Eric Hodgens. Pell and the Royal Commission: Spotlight on Ideology.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 10 Mar 2016 Kieran Tapsell. Cardinal Pell and the Church’s “Omerta”
Kieran Tapsell 8 Mar 2016 Michael Kelly SJ. Where to from here for the Catholic Church in Australia
Michael Kelly 7 Mar 2016 Paul Collins. With “leaders” like these … !
Paul Collins 3 Mar 2016 Terry Laidler. What George Pell Might Have Said
Terry Laidler 1 Mar 2016 Evan Williams. Film review ‘Spotlight’
John Menadue 28 Feb 2016 Eric Hodgens. Child Sexual Abuse – A Cascade of Victims.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 24 Feb 2016 Terry Laidler. All Roads Lead TO Rome?
Terry Laidler 24 Feb 2016 Michael D. Breen. Freedom to Mock.
John Menadue 23 Feb 2016 Frank Brennan SJ. An Unholy Mess: Cardinal Pell, the Royal Commission are Owed Justice, not Vigilantism
Frank Brennan 20 Feb 2016 Jonathan Page. The Inspiration of Vietnam
John Menadue 15 Feb 2016 Reversing the Flight to Private Schools Depends on Reforming Australia’s Incoherent and Unfair Funding System
Trevor Cobbold 14 Feb 2016 Kieran Tapsell. Pope Francis Continues the Policy of Cover Up
Kieran Tapsell 14 Feb 2016 The Pope is not the only one who doesn't get it.
John Menadue 8 Feb 2016 Bruce Duncan. Australia’s moral crisis: shipping babies and families off to Nauru
Bruce Duncan 30 Jan 2016 Frank Brennan. Meeting Pope Francis - the planet and markets.
Frank Brennan 28 Jan 2016 John Tulloh. Middle East: The Arab Spring becomes the Arab Winter.
John Tulloh 17 Jan 2016 Peter Day. Professional sport needs more ‘Pats’.
John Menadue 17 Jan 2016 I stand at the door and knock.
John Menadue 8 Jan 2016 Edmund Campion. Homily for the funeral service of Brian Johns.
John Menadue 6 Jan 2016 Cavan Hogue. Shia vs Sunni in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Cavan Hogue 3 Jan 2016 Pope Francis' frightening invitation to freedom.
John Menadue 30 Dec 2015 What is the driving force behind Jihadist terrorism?
John Menadue 29 Dec 2015 Magical thinking about ISIS.
John Menadue 28 Dec 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. Free speech and the plebiscite on same sex marriage
Frank Brennan 26 Dec 2015 Barney Zwartz. Christianity is dying out? Don't count on it.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2015 Moira Rayner. Corrupt churches need women leaders
John Menadue 21 Dec 2015 Caroline Coggins. Christmas and weed mats
John Menadue 21 Dec 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. As Holy Mother Church has always taught.
Michael Kelly 20 Dec 2015 Peter Day. The Cupboard.
John Menadue 20 Dec 2015 Eric Hodgens. Christmas Peace – A Paradox
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Dec 2015 Tony Doherty. Removing the wrapping and ribbons from Christmas.
John Menadue 19 Dec 2015 The Refugees and the New War.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2015 Paul Collins. Three wise people.
Paul Collins 17 Dec 2015 Andrew Ailes. Does Charity Begin At Home?
John Menadue 16 Dec 2015 Peter Day. God: tiny, unassuming; lying at our feet
John Menadue 15 Dec 2015 Kieran Tapsell. Finnigan’s Wake
Kieran Tapsell 1 Dec 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. Treating Islam’s clerics like their Christian equivalents will save lives
Michael Kelly 29 Nov 2015 Joanna Thyer. When we are not sure, we are alive.
John Menadue 25 Nov 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. Cardinal Pell, his lawyers and the Royal Commission
Frank Brennan 24 Nov 2015 Francis Sullivan. Learning As We Go: The Pope Models the Change the Church Needs
John Menadue 19 Nov 2015 Peter Day. Hatred won't stop me patting the dog.
John Menadue 16 Nov 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. Paris: the problem is deeper than criminal acts
Michael Kelly 31 Oct 2015 Eric Hodgens. Hope After The Synod?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 28 Oct 2015 Paul Collins. The Synod on the Family – Success or Failure?
Paul Collins 19 Oct 2015 The Synod on the Family - What's really happening?
John Menadue 18 Oct 2015 Robert Mickens. The Pope's Opposition.
Robert Mickens 18 Oct 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. George Pell's own goal.
Michael Kelly 24 Sep 2015 Kieran Tapsell. The Royal Commission - Damning with faint understatement.
Kieran Tapsell 22 Sep 2015 Kieran Tapsell. Keeping the Australian people in the dark.
Kieran Tapsell 16 Sep 2015 Bruce Kaye. Refugees in Australia and the Good Samaritan.
John Menadue 12 Sep 2015 John Menadue. Refugees, the community and civil society
John Menadue 11 Sep 2015 Ross Burns. Syria and Persecuted Minorities.
John Menadue 9 Sep 2015 Peter McNamara. Are all Australians just 'Bad Samaritans', or is it just the media?
John Menadue 8 Sep 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. The challenge of people movements.
Michael Kelly 8 Sep 2015 A Clash between Church and State in Australia?
Kieran Tapsell 5 Sep 2015 Peter Johnstone. Bishop Robinson at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Peter Johnstone 1 Sep 2015 Frank Brennan. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson at the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Frank Brennan 23 Aug 2015 Theresia Hiranabe. "My dreadful experience of war": a Japanese perspective.
John Menadue 12 Aug 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. Four preconditions for supporting marriage equality.
Frank Brennan 7 Aug 2015 Eric Hodgens. The Catholic Church is really two churches.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 22 Jul 2015 Patty Fawkner. Mary Magdalene: friend, icon, model
John Menadue 22 Jul 2015 Brian Johnstone. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ and Cardinal Pell.
John Menadue 20 Jul 2015 Robert Manne. Laudato Si' : A political reading.
John Menadue 21 Jun 2015 Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis on avoiding environmental catastrophe
Bruce Duncan 21 Jun 2015 Robert Manne. Papal Encyclical and Cardinal Pell
John Menadue 18 Jun 2015 John Menadue. How the Australian Bishops and Rome ignored the warnings.
John Menadue 17 Jun 2015 John Menadue. Catholic bishops keep saying sorry, but avoid structural and cultural reform.
John Menadue 14 Jun 2015 Kieran Tapsell: Mental Reservation at the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission
Kieran Tapsell 12 Jun 2015 Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis and the Abbott government
Bruce Duncan 8 Jun 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. It can’t get any worse.
Michael Kelly 8 Jun 2015 Garry Everett. Who’s Messing with marriage?
John Menadue 31 May 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. 'Amplifying That Still Small Voice'. Book Launch.
Frank Brennan 31 May 2015 David M. Neuhaus SJ. The Holy See and the State of Palestine.
John Menadue 30 May 2015 Peter Day. Grappling with same sex marriage
John Menadue 28 May 2015 Peter Day. It's hard being a Catholic today.
John Menadue 24 May 2015 Pope Francis and Raul Castro - The Jesuit Alumni.
John Menadue 7 May 2015 Eric Hodgens. No Change in Priestly Recruits
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 28 Apr 2015 Kieran Tapsell: The Problem with Bishop Finn
Kieran Tapsell 26 Apr 2015 Frank Brennan. ANZAC Centenary Homily.
Frank Brennan 9 Apr 2015 Kieran Tapsell: The Seventh Pope to Require the Cover up of Child Sexual Abuse?
Kieran Tapsell 1 Apr 2015 Patty Fawkner. Leading by flipping the omelette.
John Menadue 31 Mar 2015 Peter Day. He is Alive: the Spiritual ‘Big Bang’
John Menadue 29 Mar 2015 Caroline Coggins. Holy Week: what is our invitation this year?
John Menadue 24 Mar 2015 Peter Day. Mum and Dad, or Mum and Mum, or Dad and Dad?
John Menadue 16 Mar 2015 Eric Hodgens. Can Pope Francis Turn the Church around?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 12 Mar 2015 Julia Davison. It takes a nation to raise a child.
John Menadue 9 Mar 2015 Brian Johnstone. The execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
John Menadue 18 Feb 2015 Peter Day. Life is sacred, but ....
John Menadue 15 Feb 2015 Peter Day. The Lucky Country
John Menadue 14 Feb 2015 Mercy, judgement, confession and reconciliation.
John Menadue 13 Feb 2015 David M Neuhaus SJ. The Future of Christians in the Middle East. Part 2.
John Menadue 13 Feb 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. The Promoted Pell and the Sacked Morris: Two Catholic Bishops emerging from the Royal Commission
Frank Brennan 12 Feb 2015 David Neuhaus SJ. The future of Christians in the Middle East. Part 1.
John Menadue 7 Feb 2015 Rosemary Breen- Living water in Myanmar
John Menadue 3 Feb 2015 Brian Johnstone. The Right to Freedom of Speech
John Menadue 1 Feb 2015 Clive Kessler. A rage against history.
Clive Kessler 21 Jan 2015 Brian Johnstone. The right to freedom of speech.
John Menadue 18 Jan 2015 Chris Clohessy. Bad reading leads to destructive religion.
John Menadue 13 Jan 2015 David Timbs. The Synod of Bishops.
David Timbs 11 Jan 2015 Allan Patience. Liberty or Narcissism?
Allan Patience 11 Jan 2015 John Menadue. If I were a Muslim...
John Menadue 28 Dec 2014 Brian Johnstone. Terrorism and torture - the Catholic tradition.
John Menadue 27 Dec 2014 John Tulloh. The flight of Christians from the Middle East.
John Tulloh 24 Dec 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Pope Francis and the Curia.
Michael Kelly 24 Dec 2014 John Tulloh. The season of ill will for Bethlehem’s Christians.
John Tulloh 23 Dec 2014 Jesus and the modern man.
John Menadue 23 Dec 2014 Pope Francis sharply criticises Vatican bureaucracy.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2014 Kieran Tapsell. Two reports from the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission.
Kieran Tapsell 22 Dec 2014 Caroline Coggins, Pausing in Advent.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2014 John Menadue. What does it mean?
John Menadue 21 Dec 2014 Eric Hodgens. Phillip Hughes - A Christmas Story.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Dec 2014 Is religion the cause of war and violence in the Middle East and elsewhere?
John Menadue 19 Dec 2014 Brian Johnstone. How to Respond to Terrorism?
John Menadue 18 Dec 2014 Kerry Murphy. Intra-religious conflict.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2014 John Menadue. Normalising Crime.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2014 Eric Hodgens. Celibacy – Icon of Clericalism.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 18 Dec 2014 Truth, Justice and Healing Council's challenge of celibacy falls on deaf ears.
John Menadue 18 Dec 2014 Tony Doherty. Remaining balanced in times of tragedy and turmoil.
John Menadue 14 Dec 2014 Kieran Tapsell: More Cracks in the Church Dyke?
Kieran Tapsell 12 Dec 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. The Vatican’s Synod Questions for the Australian Catholic Church
Frank Brennan 8 Dec 2014 Paul Collins. A wake for ABC Religion.
Paul Collins 7 Dec 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. The Cardinal Pell precedent.
Frank Brennan 6 Dec 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. Making the world safer for children.
Frank Brennan 2 Dec 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Holy See, Torture and the UN
Kieran Tapsell 30 Nov 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Phillip Hughes: reality bites
Michael Kelly 27 Nov 2014 Hugh Mackay. The Art of Belonging.
Hugh Mackay 22 Nov 2014 Eric Hodgens. Archbishop Fisher’s Vision.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 20 Nov 2014 Is capitalism redeemable? Part 9: Restoring a moral voice
Ian McAuley 19 Nov 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. Women Priests in the Catholic Church - Can we at least talk about it?
Frank Brennan 18 Nov 2014 Michael Kelly and Michael Sainsbury on The Pope and the President.
Michael Sainsbury 17 Nov 2014 Bruce Duncan. Pope runs moral template over G20.
Bruce Duncan 13 Nov 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. The G20 Agenda and Pope Francis
Frank Brennan 13 Nov 2014 Global Pulse Magazine
John Menadue 7 Nov 2014 Patty Fawkner SGS. Betty has dementia.
John Menadue 2 Nov 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. The genie may be out of the bottle but it is still in the ecclesiastical kitchen.
Frank Brennan 29 Oct 2014 Kelvin Canavan. Gough Whitlam: a tribute to an education visionary.
John Menadue 29 Oct 2014 Robert Mickens. An exercise in keeping friends close and enemies closer.
Robert Mickens 21 Oct 2014 Frank Brennan. My tribute to Gough
Frank Brennan 16 Oct 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. On being a Priest.
Michael Kelly 15 Oct 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. The Vatican Synod has let the genie out of the bottle. Deo Gratias
Frank Brennan 14 Oct 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Catholic Cafeteria
Kieran Tapsell 13 Oct 2014 John Menadue. Asylum seekers – institutionalised cruelty, the banality of evil and immorality.
John Menadue 11 Oct 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. A new magazine - Global Pulse.
Michael Kelly 8 Oct 2014 Edmund Campion. Australian Catholic Lives.
John Menadue 8 Oct 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Holy See’s Newly Found Sensitivity to National Sovereignty
Kieran Tapsell 7 Oct 2014 John Menadue. Insiders and Outsiders.
John Menadue 5 Oct 2014 Robert Mickens. Letter from Rome.
Robert Mickens 2 Oct 2014 Peter Day. The Middle East: it's important to talk.
John Menadue 28 Sep 2014 John Menadue. Postcard from Copenhagen – I went to the ‘wrong’ church.
John Menadue 24 Sep 2014 Kieran Tapsell: Lawyers under the Spotlight at the Royal Commission
Kieran Tapsell 23 Sep 2014 Peter Day. An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell
John Menadue 16 Sep 2014 Eric Hodgens. Will the Synod on the family work?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 10 Sep 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Pope Francis is a game-changer.
Michael Kelly 25 Aug 2014 Kieran Tapsell. George Pell's logic on child sex abuse is flawed
Kieran Tapsell 24 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Keep trucking!
John Menadue 23 Aug 2014 John Menadue. The Bishop and the Prime Minister
John Menadue 21 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Those pesky nuns.
John Menadue 16 Aug 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Royal Commission on the Melbourne Response
Kieran Tapsell 6 Aug 2014 Paul Collins. Much ado about nothing?
Paul Collins 5 Aug 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. A Jesuit Bicentenary
Frank Brennan 3 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Suffer the little children to come unto me…
John Menadue 28 Jul 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Today’s Totalitarianism’s Powerful Forms.
Michael Kelly 24 Jul 2014 Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis: economic system is failing millions.
Bruce Duncan 20 Jul 2014 MH 17-Light a candle rather than curse the darkness
John Menadue 9 Jul 2014 Elenie Poulos. Morrison's Vision of the 'National Interest' Does Us No Good.
John Menadue 9 Jul 2014 Kieran Tapsell. Rolf Harris and the Vatican.
Kieran Tapsell 6 Jul 2014 Garry Everett. Where angels fear to tread in the Catholic Church.
John Menadue 3 Jul 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Catholic Church needs to show more than legal compliance
Michael Kelly 3 Jul 2014 The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses of Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church.
John Menadue 1 Jul 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. How the Bishop was forced to resign because he played too much for the local team
Frank Brennan 30 Jun 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Nestor Case
Kieran Tapsell 26 Jun 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. The banality of evil
Michael Kelly 26 Jun 2014 Patty Fawkner SGS. Permissible victims.
John Menadue 24 Jun 2014 Eric Hodgens. On a Wing and a Prayer – A Personal Memoir.
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 22 Jun 2014 Cristian Martini Grimaldi. St Francis of the East
John Menadue 19 Jun 2014 Catholic Church - catch-up and cover-up
John Menadue 17 Jun 2014 Irene Sutherland. A day on our Camino
John Menadue 16 Jun 2014 Bishop Bill Morris' book.
John Menadue 16 Jun 2014 Kieran Tapsell. Canon Law and the Truth, Justice and Healing Council.
Kieran Tapsell 15 Jun 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. Homily for Trinity Sunday with the Royal Commission in town.
Frank Brennan 11 Jun 2014 Mark Isaacs. The Salvos on Nauru.
John Menadue 7 Jun 2014 Chris Geraghty. Appropriate responses to the scandal in Newcastle
Chris Geraghty 2 Jun 2014 Kieran Tapsell. The Cunneen Report’s Comments on Canon and Civil Law
Kieran Tapsell 27 May 2014 Chris Geraghty. Potiphar’s Wife – The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sex Abuse.
Chris Geraghty 27 May 2014 Caroline Coggins. Art and prayer
John Menadue 20 May 2014 Julian McDonald. We will right this terrible wrong.
John Menadue 16 May 2014 Kieran Tapsell. The Vatican at the UN: Who is fossilised in the Past?
Kieran Tapsell 8 May 2014 Kieran Tapsell's "Potiphar's Wife"
Kieran Tapsell 2 May 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Next item on the Catholic reform agenda
Michael Kelly 16 Apr 2014 Michael Kelly S.J. What makes this week Holy.
Michael Kelly 15 Apr 2014 Patty Fawkner. An Easter story
John Menadue 13 Apr 2014 Caroline Coggins. The story of Easter: the love template.
John Menadue 9 Apr 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. The canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII - an event of telling significance.
Michael Kelly 3 Apr 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Where does the buck stop in the Church?
Michael Kelly 1 Apr 2014 Eric Hodgens. A new moral compass
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 31 Mar 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Sexual abuse and the humiliation of the Catholic Church. A new spirituality.
Michael Kelly 29 Mar 2014 Chris Geraghty. Farewell to Pell
Chris Geraghty 29 Mar 2014 Kieran Tapsell. Pell's business strategy in tatters.
Kieran Tapsell 20 Mar 2014 Kieran Tapsell. The best drama in town: the Royal Commission on the Ellis Case.
Kieran Tapsell 13 Mar 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. Cardinal Pell at the Royal Commission
Frank Brennan 11 Mar 2014 Eric Hodgens. Sydney's next bishop - what sort?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 5 Mar 2014 Eric Hodgens. Where do bishops come from?
Eric Hodgens (Dec'd) 5 Mar 2014 National Council of Priests - Choosing a successor to Cardinal Pell - a pastor or a prince.
John Menadue 27 Feb 2014 Chris Geraghty. The Pell Factor
Chris Geraghty 27 Feb 2014 Kieran Tapsell. The Trickle-down Effect in Toowoomba
Kieran Tapsell 13 Feb 2014 Kieran Tapsell. Sexual abuse in the Church - the failure of the Vatican and Popes
Kieran Tapsell 7 Feb 2014 Kieran Tapsell. The United Nations and the 'Warts-and-all' history.
Kieran Tapsell 23 Jan 2014 Kieran Tapsell: The Inquisition of the Catholic Church at the United Nations.
Kieran Tapsell 22 Jan 2014 Pope Francis - Message on Migrants and Refugees. January 2014
John Menadue 15 Jan 2014 Sex abuse: the de facto privilege of clergy. Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 13 Jan 2014 Asylum seekers - Tony Abbott and I share a Jesuit education. John O'Mara
John Menadue 13 Jan 2014 Repost: Don't tamper with the Refugee Convention. John Menadue
John Menadue 10 Jan 2014 Is Pope Francis a Marxist?
John Menadue 9 Jan 2014 A 100 billion dollar tale of piracy in the Timor Sea. Michael Sainsbury
John Menadue 7 Jan 2014 The Revival of Misprision of Felony. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 3 Jan 2014 Putting the Jesuitical back into the Jesuit. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 31 Dec 2013 Repost: Are most asylum seekers and refugees Muslims? John Menadue
John Menadue 28 Dec 2013 A letter to Pope Francis
John Menadue 24 Dec 2013 A Christmas Message from Sister Joan Chittister.
John Menadue 23 Dec 2013 Waiting on Him in Advent for His Birth; His birth in us. Guest Blogger: Caroline Coggins
John Menadue 22 Dec 2013 My year of leaning - and leaning into Christmas. Guest Blogger: Patty Fawkner SGS
John Menadue 21 Dec 2013 Cracks in the Church Dyke at the Royal Commission. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 20 Dec 2013 New Vatican Committee on Sexual Abuse - What the Pope and the Bishops should do. Guest blogger: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
John Menadue 17 Dec 2013 Archbishop Coleridge and Canon Law: Humpty Dumpty Rules . Guest blogger Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 13 Dec 2013 Flogging a dead horse at the Royal Commission on Sexual Abuse. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 10 Dec 2013 New Vatican Committee on Sexual Abuse and 'zero tolerance' of Pope Benedict. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 4 Dec 2013 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. John Menadue
John Menadue 4 Dec 2013 Bella Figura and the Vatican. Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 30 Nov 2013 What a good effort. Guest blogger: Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 30 Nov 2013 Pope Francis's Synod. Guest blogger: Eric Hodgens
John Menadue 29 Nov 2013 A reflection on Pope Francis's Exhortation. Guest blogger: Frank Brennan SJ
Frank Brennan 26 Nov 2013 Sexual abuse: two Popes late on the scene. Guest blogger: Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 25 Nov 2013 Sexual abuse - don't mention Canon Law! Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 17 Nov 2013 Systemic issues arising from the Victorian Parliament's 'Betrayal of Trust Report' Guest blogger: Kieran Tapsell
Kieran Tapsell 14 Nov 2013 The end of an era. Guest blogger: Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 7 Nov 2013 The Catholic Church is in for a shake-up. Guest blogger: Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 4 Nov 2013 In Bob we Trust. Guest blogger Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 14 Oct 2013 The eye of the needle, politicians, and Confucius. Guest blogger: Milton Moon
John Menadue 19 Sep 2013 Frontier War and asylum seekers. John Menadue
John Menadue 8 Sep 2013 Facing the future. Guest blogger: Prof. Stephen Leeder
Stephen Leeder 2 Sep 2013 From one Catholic to another. Guest blogger: Bishop Hurley, Darwin.
John Menadue 21 Aug 2013 Jesuit students rebuke Tony Abbott and other old boys. John Menadue
John Menadue 16 Aug 2013 Hitting rock-bottom! John Menadue
John Menadue 6 Aug 2013 Encouraging words from Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Rio. John Menadue
John Menadue 14 Jul 2013 Pope Francis blasts 'globalisation of indifference' for immigrants. Report from National Catholic Reporter
John Menadue 19 Jun 2013 Clericalism and the inability to recognise one's own shortcomings. Guest Blogger: Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 17 Jun 2013 The Vatican appeals in vain for decency towards refugees. John Menadue
John Menadue 30 May 2013 Pell before the Parliamentary Enquiry. Guest blogger: Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 27 May 2013 Asylum seekers and refugees - political slogans or humanitarian policies? John Menadue
John Menadue 10 May 2013 Our better angels. Guest bloggers Brenda, Edith and Elizabeth
John Menadue 16 Apr 2013 Report of 'Clerical celibacy in context'
John Menadue 9 Apr 2013 Child sexual abuse: who are the abusers? Guest blogger, Professor Kim Oates
Kim Oates 31 Mar 2013 Mea Maxima Culpa. Guest blogger Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 25 Mar 2013 Judge Murphy and Sexual Abuse in Ireland. John Menadue
John Menadue 18 Mar 2013 Could this be a John XXIII moment. Guest blogger: Monsignor Tony Doherty
John Menadue 18 Mar 2013 Next step for Pope Francis. Guest blogger: Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 14 Mar 2013 Francis I. An unpredicted but not unpredictable result. Guest blogger Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 14 Mar 2013 Habemus Papam. Guest blogger Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 5 Mar 2013 'I was a stranger and you took me in.'
John Menadue 2 Mar 2013 The Candidate. Guest blogger Chris Geraghty
Chris Geraghty 28 Feb 2013 Normalising Crime
John Menadue 20 Feb 2013 Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
John Menadue 13 Feb 2013 The Bad Samaritan. Guest blogger Greg at Cottesloe
John Menadue 30 Jan 2013 It happens every day (Guest blogger: Fr Michael Kelly S.J.)
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