Tag: politics
Fr Peter Smith: Re-establishing our credibility
It is our many good works which should speak for us
On 11 January this year, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane and President of the...
Winning voters of faith back to Labor
We are rebuilding bridges with communities of faith
Many of us felt hopeful about the calendar ticking over into 2021 and the opportunities of this...
White House honours anniversary of St Thomas Becket’s martyrdom
The White House acknowledged religious believers everywhere who suffer persecution for their faith, particularly Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong and Pastor Wang Yi of Chengdu, China, describing them as "tireless witnesses to hope."
Simcha Fisher: When fighting a war, don’t destroy what you’re defending
How to stay human when the whole world seems at odds
Long before election day, I gave up trying to change anybody's mind about politics....
Andrew West: Leave Humanities to the pseuds … count the cost
I present a modest little program on ABC Radio National about faith in public life.
We do something rather unique, covering the places where politics...
Winners of culture wars will also win the future
What society do we want to bequeath to our children and grandchildren in the years after the coronavirus pandemic?
The hell and betrayal of one...
New integralists: uninformed politics that misrepresents the Church
such fiascos are important cautionary tales for any Catholic thinker who imagines that the moral and cultural crisis of the West is going to be resolved by the Catholic Church allying itself with state power
The dictionary the politically correct don’t want you to read
In today’s politically correct world if you oppose the rate of immigration you are attacked as xenophobic, argue marriage involves a woman and a man you are condemned as heteronormative and homophobic and defend the benefits of western civilisation and you are guilty of white supremacism and for being Eurocentric.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet appears on This Catholic Life
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perottet stopped by the This Catholic Life podcast in 2019, chatting with host Peter Holmes and Catholic Weekly writer Monica Doumit...
Monica Doumit: Drop the lunatic policies, Labor
Labor could still win Christian voters back
I know we have already had a couple of opinion pieces on the review that the Australian Labor...
Kevin Connolly: I stand for life, no matter the cost
I knew from the start that politics is a numbers game and the numbers were unlikely to align with me. Nevertheless I came to the realisation that standing up for life was so fundamentally important to a decent, civilised society that it would be worth doing even if victory was not achieved.
