Being baptised into a technological religion
I did not expect to convert. I spent my youth as a committed PC user; I understood technology, ...
View ArticleFrancis biopic, surge in confessions
A biographical film of Francis is to be made in Argentina, the Vatican and Liberation Theology ...
View ArticleUnholy Tim's tales, Glenn Lazarus election bid
Queensland students in an exodus to Catholic schools, Tim Fischer tells tales of his time at the ...
View ArticleAcademic who mapped the American soul
Robert Bellah, who has died at the age of 86, taught at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
View ArticleNever mind that pesky Hebrew pluperfect
Robert Alter’s award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible continues with the stirring ...
View ArticleIrish legend's life full of giving
Patrick Crilly has not lost his soft Irish lilt even though he arrived in Australia nearly 50 ...
View ArticleFootball, faith and friendship
A unique and powerful bond was formed between players and clergy at a US American football ...
View ArticleThe value of atheists
In his monumental study of atheism, Michael Buckley suggests that atheism is invariably a ...
View ArticleGreat crowds accompanied Jesus on his way
Luke 14:25-33Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. "If ...
View ArticleChristian, Muslim leaders examine challenges of Arab Christians
For decades, Arab Christians have been fleeing the Holy Land and the rest of the Middle East in ...
View ArticleThe world's 50 most unusual churches
Chapels and churches are works of art as well as places of worship. Indeed, over 100 years ago, ...
View ArticleHong Kong mooncakes, Syrian refugee relief
The Pope donates mooncakes to Hong Kong prisoners, Jewish-Catholic ties reach a new high, and ...
View ArticleCatholic Mission, principal mourned, jubilarian priests
Archbishop Coleridge calls for evangelisation with creativity, a Queensland school mourns their ...
View ArticlePoet of the ‘silent things’ falls silent
He was a snowy-haired, craggy mountain of a man; a poet, among the greatest of our era. This ...
View ArticleFrom North Sydney to East Timor
A few years ago, Marist Brother Peter Corr fms took a six-week crash course to learn Spanish, ...
View ArticleWhere the people of God govern
DG Hart’s history of Reformed Protestantism takes us through its entire 500-year history – ...
View ArticleShigeru Ban: emergency shelters made from paper
Long before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments ...
View ArticleWhat man among you with a hundred sheep?
Luke 15:1-32The tax collectors and the sinners, meanwhile, were all seeking the company of ...
View ArticleThe slow, imperceptible march of goodness
God writes straight with crooked lines. That axiom sounds clever, but is there real truth or ...
View ArticleMaking peace is now part of the job for Pope
Pope Francis is leading the Catholic Church on an extraordinary campaign to prevent President ...
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