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Lessons from the desert fathers
05/11/2008
What does a community of monks living in the Egyptian desert 2000 years ago have to say to 21st century Australians? The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, speaks on the Christian desert fathers and their relevance to modern life.
Lessons from the desert fathers
05/11/2008
What does a community of monks living in the Egyptian desert 2000 years ago have to say to 21st century Australians? The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, speaks on the Christian desert fathers and their relevance to modern life.
The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratorium.
15/10/2008
The Movement for the Ordination of Women ( MOW) and the end of the moratorium.
15/10/2008
The Religion Report 15th October, 2008
Stephen Crittenden: Hello and welcome to the Religion Report.
This week the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Haiti, Claudette Werleigh joins us. But first, the Sydney Anglican Synod is meeting this week and a lot of people are waiting to see whether it will agree to allow the debate on women's ordination to be reopened after a moratorium which has lasted for well over a decade.
During that time, the Movement for the Ordination of Women has been silenced and demoralized in Sydney, while the rest of the Anglican church in Australia was ordaining women priests and then women bishops.
But a couple of Saturdays ago, MOW took to the steps of the Sydney Town Hall in a demonstration that marked the return to the fray of Dr Patricia Brennan, who was spokesman for the movement in the 1980s.
International Museum of the Reformation
01/10/2008
Next year, 2009, is the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Protestant reformer, Jean Calvin, who was born in Picardy in France, studied at the University of Paris, and ultimately established a theocratic government in the city of Geneva. Because Geneva was such an important trading hub, his ideas quickly spread across Europe.
Long awaited, the planning has been going on since the 1960s, the very elegant new International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva has just opened and it won the 2007 Award of the Council of Europe for best new museum in Europe.
Jack Carmody has just been in Geneva to see it, and he spoke to Madame Francoise Demolle, the Chair of the museum's foundation.
Coptic New year
17/09/2008
Coptic Orthodox year zero is counted as 284 AD- when the Roman Emperor Diocletian came to power and persecuted Christians in Egypt.
Indian Christians attacked in Orissa, India
10/09/2008
Australian Missionary "Warren" on attacks against Indian Christians
Gregorian Chant goes platinum
10/09/2008
Fr Karl is from a group of monks from the Vienna Woods who have become the most unlikely international pop stars of 2008 with their album 'Chant'.
The undercover Mosque; Gregorian Chant goes platinum
10/09/2008
"The Undercover Mosque: The return": an interview with David henshaw, the executive producer of one of the most controversial documentaries on Islam ever made in Britain. Also; Fr Karl is from a group of monks from the Vienna Woods who have become the most unlikely international pop stars of 2008 with their album 'Chant', and some of these Cistercian monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz were here for World Youth Day celebrations.
WYD 2008 excludes young gay and lesbian Catholics.
09/07/2008
MAGiS (Ignatian) group over-ruled on their inclusiveness policy, and told they may not sponsor the Catholic Acceptance group and the PFLAG group
A preview of World Youth Day 2008
09/07/2008
With just a few days to go before World Youth Day in Sydney, we ask whether the visiting pilgrims from around the world are going to be presented with a real church or a fantasy church. On the one hand there is a strong emphasis on Catholic identity as traditionally conceived, and and on the other hand a failure to engage with modern problems.
The relics of saints at World Youth Day 2008
09/07/2008
The strong emphasis on Catholic identity as traditionally conceived, and an attempt to revive a range of traditional Catholic pious practices including the veneration of saintly relics, individual confession, the Latin Mass, eucharistic adoration and the stations of the cross.
Eucharistic Adoration at World Youth Day 2008
09/07/2008
Another aspect of the revival of a range of traditional Catholic pious practices.
World Youth Day 2008
09/07/2008
With just a few days to go before World Youth Day in Sydney, we ask whether the visiting pilgrims from around the world are going to be presented with a real church or a fantasy church. On the one hand there is a strong emphasis on Catholic identity as traditionally conceived, and an attempt to revive a range of traditional Catholic pious practices including the veneration of saintly relics, individual confession, the Latin Mass, eucharistic adoration and the stations of the cross. On the other hand there is a failure to confront modern problems. We look at the attempt to exclude young gay Catholics, the never-ending saga of sexual abuse, and the reality of a diminishing Australian church now facing an acute priest shortage.
Jerusalem and Global Anglican Futures - following the money and leaders.
02/07/2008
Thomas Oden on the Confessing movement in the United States. In the context of these USA "Confessing movements", has the "Global Anglican Futures" conference really amounted to anything new for the international Anglican church?
Newcastle Bishop Brian Farran on GAFCON
02/07/2008
What implications does the "Global Anglican Futures" conference have for the Australian Anglican church?
US Episcopalian Canon Jim Naughton on GAFCON
02/07/2008
The ideas, the money and the effort behind the conference in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem and Global Anglican Futures - following the money.
02/07/2008
Has the "Global Anglican Futures"conference really amounted to anything new for the international Anglican church?/ The ideas, the money and the effort behind the conference in Jerusalem./ Implications of GAFCON for the Australian Anglican church
Jerusalem and GAFCON
25/06/2008
1000 Conservative Anglican leaders in Jerusalam at the Global Anglican Futures Conference have avoided wider schism, but restated the depth of the crisis in the international Communion
Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East
25/06/2008
Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle east- where Israel is entering into negotiations with its enemies on three fronts simultaneously
Jerusalem and GAFCON; Israeli journalist Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East
25/06/2008
1000 Conservative Anglican leaders in Jerusalam at the Global Anglican Futures Conference have avoided schism, but restated the depth of the crisis in the international Communion; Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle east- where Israel is entering into negotiations with its enemies on three fronts simultaneously
Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
