Religion Report

August 2008

Wednesday 20

• Aboriginal traditional life and kinship; St Mary's, South Brisbane "out of communion" ?

Wednesday 13

• Lambeth Post-Mortem
• Jewish medical ethics (part 1)

Wednesday 06

• Chinese repression of Falung Gong
• Churches, Charities and tax

July 2008

Wednesday 30

• Lambeth so far
• Jim Wallis in Australia

Wednesday 23

• World Youth Day 2008 in review: Blindfolded and feeling parts of the elephant
• Kenyan Sr Ephigenia Gachiri IBVM on her work at WYD 2008
• Honduran Oscar Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga on his role at WYD 2008

Wednesday 16

• The 40th Anniversary of the Pope banning the pill: Humanae Vitae

Wednesday 09

• A preview of World Youth Day 2008
• The relics of saints at World Youth Day 2008
• Eucharistic Adoration at World Youth Day 2008
• WYD 2008 excludes young gay and lesbian Catholics.

Wednesday 02

• Jerusalem and Global Anglican Futures - following the money and leaders.
• US Episcopalian Canon Jim Naughton on GAFCON
• Newcastle Bishop Brian Farran on GAFCON

June 2008

Wednesday 25

• Jerusalem and GAFCON
• Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East

Wednesday 18

• Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam

Wednesday 11

• Dalai Lama protests
• Iranian Baha'is disappear
• Chaplains in State Schools

Wednesday 04

• Zimbabwean Anglican excommunication
• Emerging Church
• Catholic women priests

May 2008

Wednesday 28

• Canon Darling on Australia's first female Anglican bishops
• Dr Patricia Brennan on Australia's first female Anglican bishops
• A spirited defence of Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson

Wednesday 21

• Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
• Religion and public life
• Mother Mary MacKillop: Her Holiness

Wednesday 14

• Ahmadiyya Islam in Indonesia
• Max Charlesworth AO on democracy in the church
• Victorian Police Chaplain retires
• Michael Kieran Harvey on Messaien

Wednesday 07

• Former ACL Victorian State Director Railton Hill on the Australian Christian Lobby
• Dean Logan on the Australian Christian Lobby
• Jim Wallace on the Australian Christian Lobby

April 2008

Wednesday 30

• Saudi Money; Australian Universities and Islam - where is the line in the sand?
• Dr Paul Collins on the death of Colombian Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo

Wednesday 23

• The Pope in America
• Broken Rites on the pope's visit to World Youth Day 2008
• Kyogle's Three-year Buddhist retreat ends

Wednesday 16

• Scientology, Hollywood and the path to Washington

Wednesday 09

• More on the chaos at World Youth Day HQ
• A Mass At The Racecourse
• Reviewing the Act of Settlement of 1701
• Strathfield Uniting Church Carillon

Wednesday 02

• World Youth Day 2008? ;
• Anglican and Catholic Covenant
• Chris Willcock S.J

March 2008

Wednesday 26

• A new Muslim Community Reference Group?
• The ethics of climate change

Wednesday 19

• On the murder of an Iraqi Catholic Bishop
• Defining the "Dalai clique"
• The Christian vote in federal politics

Wednesday 12

• Anglican Primate of the West Indies on Lambeth
• Ghanaian Presbyterians
• Rimini Manuscript
• John Russell (obituary)

Wednesday 05

• Raimond Gaita

February 2008

Wednesday 27

• Mark A Siegel on Islam, Democracy and the West
• Rabbi David Rosen on the Catholic church and the Jews

Wednesday 20

• The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem speaks out
• The Catholic Church and the Jews
• 100 Reverends apologise to gays and lesbians for the church's lack of welcome

Wednesday 13

• Melanie Phillips on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
• Michael Mumisa on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain

Wednesday 06

• Death of the Mormon President Gordon B Hinckley
• The Exclusive Brethren and federal funding
• Cat Stevens/ Statement from Dean Phillip Jensen

Tuesday 05

January 2008

Wednesday 30

• The new "Black Pope"
• Anglican music and culture under threat in Sydney?

Wednesday 23

• The Existential Jesus

Wednesday 16

• Australian Catholic schools: a preferential option for the wealthy?

Wednesday 09

• Steiner education in State Schools

Wednesday 02

• The Centenary of the Modernist Crisis