Past Programs
Arts and Culture - 2008
Mother Mary MacKillop: Her Holiness
21/05/2008
Just in time for World Youth Day, Sydney playwrights Justin Fleming and Melvyn Morrow bring Pope Benedict XVI to the stage, with his piano, as a character in Her Holiness, their play about Mother Mary MacKillop.
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
21/05/2008
Confronting Sex and Power in the Catholic church of the United States
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Religion and public life; Mother Mary MacKillop: Her Holiness
21/05/2008
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Roger Trigg on the pressure to privatise religion and keep it out of public life. And just in time for World Youth Day, Sydney playwrights Justin Fleming and Melvyn Morrow bring Pope Benedict XVI to the stage, with his piano, as a character in Her Holiness, their play about Mother Mary MacKillop.
Religion and public life
21/05/2008
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Roger Trigg on the pressure to privatise religion and keep it out of public life.
Michael Kieran Harvey on Messaien
14/05/2008
A midnight festival in St Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne to celebrate the centenary of one of the great mystical composers of the 20th century, Olivier Messaien.
Ahmadiyya Islam in Indonesia; Victorian Police Chaplain retires; Max Charlesworth AO on democracy in the church; Michael Kieran Harvey on Messaien
14/05/2008
Indonesian government steps back from banning the Muslim Ahmadiyya sect in the name of religious freeedom; First of a new series of quarterly essays on religion in Australia: Professor Max Charlesworth on Democracy in the Catholic church; The Rev Jim Pilmer, chaplain to the Victorian police department retires after 12 years; A midnight festival in St Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne to celebrate the centenary of one of the great mystical composers of the 20th century, Olivier Messaien.
