Tag: culture wars
Are funerals the new culture war frontier?
A recent funeral at New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral for a self-professed atheist and transgender woman who lobbied for the legalisation of prostitution poses serious questions for the whole church.
The third great crisis of the church: “What is man?”
Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its bimillennial history. The first crisis was the fierce, Church-dividing debate over “What is God?” That question was definitively answered by the First Council of Nicaea I (325 A.D.) and the Council of Chalcedon (451).
The woman who confounds both left and right
By Lois M Collins
Elizabeth Bruenig makes no apologies. Not for her progressive politics, not for her Catholic faith and certainly not for having children...
Dr Kevin Donnelly: It’s time to rehear a prophetic warning
A culture war on the west's liberties and freedom
As a result of cancel culture, the imposition of politically correct language and mind control and...
What the left can learn from Pope Francis
The contemporary left lacks a distinctive conception of the good life
Monica Doumit: Animal Farm takes shape in Victoria
A highly questionable legal process brought down a good doctor
Cardinal George Pell’s complete vindication by a unanimous decision of the High Court of Australia...
When the centre does not hold
Gone are the times when marriage was solely a sacrament involving a woman and a man for the purpose of procreation, people dressed discreetly...
