The final document of the Synod on Synodality has served as a signpost to a quiet revolution in many areas. Not least of these has been the Church’s attitude to disability. As I have discussed in ...

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It rose in its tall verticals from the grace and welcome of the earth, / That swooned far, far below, / As canny masons hefted the limestone / Into vast beatitudes of grace; / Shipwrights inverted ...

February 24 will remain in peoples’ minds and for many years to come being the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for some of us, February 24 holds another, more sustaining and ...

When David Halliday from Eureka Street asked me to pen an introduction to my father Bruce Dawe’s unpublished poems, I wasn’t quite sure at first. Even with the purest of intentions, bias tends to ...

The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...

On Friday, in what should have been a routine diplomatic meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was subjected to something that looked much closer to an ambush than a ...

When the idea of an Anglican Ordinariate was announced in September 2009 in the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, the Times of London ran the headline 'Vatican Parks Tanks on Rowan's Lawn' ...

Modern medicine’s astonishing ability to preserve life has nudged the possibility of death and the process of dying ever further from our consciousness. The past year or so has been a confronting one ...

Since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017), Australia has become more attuned to the complexities of power, consent, and exploitation within trusted ...

The Forest Wars: the Ugly Truth about What’s Happening in Our Tall Forests by David Lindenmayer, Allen and Unwin, 2024 Leading Australian ecologist David Lindenmayer is internationally respected for ...

Robert Manne, A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars, Latrobe University Press with Black Inc In my youth I was puzzled why so many older people devoured ...