Why Pope Francis’s letter, ‘Beloved Amazon’, resonates in Australia.
Bruce Duncan Posted 10 March 2020 Many parts of Pope Francis’s response to the recent Amazon Synod could have been written for Australia, especially...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis & the bushfires.
6 February 2020. Pope Francis warned of the dangers of ‘catastrophic’ weather events, like savage fires resulting from climate change, in his 2015 document,...
The Amazon crises & the Amazon Synod (October 6-27 2019).
Rowan Ireland. Posted 28 November 2019. This year, several international crises in the Amazon have come to the boil, just as planning and preliminary...
Pope Francis invites young researchers & entrepreneurs to a meeting in Assisi in March 2020.
Pope Francis has invited young economists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers under the age of 35 to come to Assisi for an international event on...
World religions: A force for war or global peace?
John D’Arcy May. Theology in the face of pluralism & injustice A Public forum of Social Policy Connections and the Centre for Religion &...
Why the Amazon fires strike dread in our hearts.
Bruce Duncan. The extraordinary fires in the Amazon in August 2019 struck dread into the hearts of climate specialists and observers worldwide, since the...
Bruce Duncan. The sirens are blaring about climate ‘catastrophe’. Are we deaf?
A searing heatwave has swept over western and southern Europe, and even in the USA. In France, temperatures were the highest on record, reaching...
SPC membership renewals 2019-2020 & donation appeal.
Dear friend of SPC. Warmest thanks to you once more for your support as a member of SPC. We invite you to renew your...
Standing up: reclaiming lay leadership in the Catholic sector.
Geraldine Doogue AO with Francis Sullivan Wednesday 24 July , 6.30-8.00pm Geraldine Googue AO is well known journalist and broadcaster, at the helm of...
Sr Patricia Fox on Justice for the Philippines.
Conversation over lunch, organised by Pax Christi. Sunday 16 June 12:30 for 1pm lunch (bring something to share)Kildara Centre Rear 41 Stanhope Street Malvern...
Friday essay: how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed.
Philip Almond University of Queensland. Less than a week after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001, US...