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By Mark Bahnisch on October 18, 2010
I had mixed feelings last night about whether to watch the canonisation ceremony for Blessed Mary MacKillop on ABC News 24. In part, but not exclusively, those feelings related to the way the ceremonies would be covered, and I’m afraid [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged abc news 24, abc religion and ethics, Australia, canonisation, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christopher hitchens, hagiography, Jeff Sparrow, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Leviathan, Mary Mackillop, Mary of the Cross, Media, miracles, Nationalism, new atheism, On Toleration, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, power, protestantism, Richard Dawkins, scott stephens, social justice, Thomas Hobbes, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on September 1, 2010
[Via Nicholas Gruen] Anyone who wants to automatically equate Catholicism with homophobia really should read Kristina Keneally’s fine speech to the New South Wales parliament, explaining why she is casting her vote in favour of a bill allowing same sex [...]
Posted in NSW Government, Parenting, Policy, Relationships, Religion | Tagged Catholicism, conscience vote, homophobia, Kristina Keneally, NSW parliament, Paul McLeay, Politics, Religion, same sex adoption, Speech |
By Kim on April 14, 2010
There’s been a bit of discussion on tigtog’s thread about an apparently co-ordinated call by Christopher Hitchens and others, supported by Richard Dawkins for the Pope to face criminal indictment over the clerical child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church. [...]
Posted in Crime, Religion | Tagged atheism, atheists, Catholic Church, Catholicism, child abuse, christopher hitchens, clerics, crimes, international law, Pope Benedict, priests, Religion, Richard Dawkins, scandal, skepticlawyer, Vatican |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2010
In the wake of Abbott’s Brutopian comments at the Catholic Social Services Australia national conference, Stephen Nash, CEO of Melbourne homelessness and housing support agency HomeGround Services, has published a rebuttal of the claim that homelessness is a choice at [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Hamilton, Catholic Social Services Australia, Catholicism, conference, Eureka Street, HomeGround Services, housing policy, Jesus, John Falzon, New Matilda, paternalism, poor, Poverty, Religion, Rudd government, Stephen Nash, theology, Tony Abbott, Vinnies |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2009
The first few days of Tony Abbott’s leadership have seen a concerted effort by the conservative commentariat to decry any criticism of his reactionary policies on women’s rights and social issues as ‘anti-Catholic’. A number of points need making about [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged ALP, anti Catholicism, Cardinal Pell, Catholic Church, Catholicism, catholics, catholics in politics, Christopher Pearson, Culture Wars, DLP, George Pell, groupers, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, political culture, Pope Benedict, punditariat, religion and politics, sectarianism, secularisation, social justice, Sociology, the movement, theology, Tony Abbott, Vatican II, victimology, Women |
By Kim on July 9, 2009
If Kevin Rudd wanted to impress Pope Benedict with his support for Blessed Mary MacKillop’s canonisation, he might have picked the wrong topic. In the lead up to the G20 meeting, the Pontiff had other things on his mind – [...]
Posted in Developing world, Economics, Ethics, International, Politics, Religion | Tagged Capitalism, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Developing world, encyclical, finance, G20, global financial crisis, globalisation, Italy, Kevin Rudd, Mary Mackillop, Pope Benedict XVI, social teaching, social thought |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 2, 2009
I might have mentioned in passing here, and I know I’ve said on Facebook, that I’ve become interested lately in exploring some themes which don’t really seem to fit into the LP space, and also in a more personal form [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Feminism, Life, Masculinity, Media, Religion, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged Angelus Novus, atheism, Blogging, blogosphere, Brisbane, BrisCulture, Catholicism, Creative Brisbane, cultural studies, Feminism, gender relations, Larvatus prodeo, LP, Mark Bahnisch, masculinism, online, place, radical catholicism, Religion, social, Sociology, spirituality, St Mary's South Brisbane, Urbanism, web 2.0, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 27, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/3306404742_170fe23638.jpg" align=left I’ve blogged about the fracas around St Mary’s, South Brisbane on a couple of occasions before. I’ve now become quite heavily and personally involved in the work of the ongoing Catholic parish of St Mary’s, and for [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Ethics, Media, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Brisbane archdiocese, Catholic Church, Catholicism, controversy, John Bathersby, Ken Howell, liturgy, Peter Kennedy, South Brisbane, St Mary's, Terry Fitzpatrick, theology |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 18, 2009
Folks might remember an earlier post where I briefly discussed the imbroglio around St. Mary’s, South Brisbane and the dispute between Father Peter Kennedy, the parish’s dismissed administrator, and the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, John Bathersby. The ashes of the [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Ethics, Media, Religion | Tagged Brisbane archdiocese, Catholic Church, Catholicism, controversy, John Bathersby, Ken Howell, liturgy, Michael Carden, Peter Kennedy, South Brisbane, St Mary's, Terry Fitzpatrick, theology |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
It’s been the biggest ecclesiastical story of the year. That may not mean a very big story in the normal course of things, but it’s been difficult if you live in Brisbane to miss all the coverage of the ongoing [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Media, Religion | Tagged Brisbane archdiocese, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christopher Pearson, controversy, John Bathersby, Ken Howell, liturgy, Peter Kennedy, South Brisbane, St Mary's, Terry Fitzpatrick, theology |
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