Mid-Week Update: Marriage Equality or the Destruction of Difference?

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion Mid-week update Marriage equality or the destruction of difference? ABC Religion and Ethics - 4 Feb 2013 Extending the definition of marriage will not deliver greater social endorsement for same-sex couples. We need to protect heterosexual marriage, and have religious recognition of homosexual unions. More Evangelical Catholicism for Christophobic times ABC Religion and Ethics - 5 Feb 2013 Throughout the western world, culture has become increasingly hostile to the faith. Recreational Catholicism is over; Evangelical Catholicism is the only possible Catholicism in the twenty-first century. More Irrational atheists unwilling to recognise the beneficial role of religion ABC Religion and Ethics - 5 Feb 2013 The irrationality of atheists like Richard Dawkins is apparent in their refusal to recognise the essential role played by religion in general, and Islam in particular, in our common life. More Prophetic protest: Palestinian settlement and the witness of Bab al-Shams ABC Religion and Ethics - 1 Feb 2013 In a situation stuck in an endless cycle of political banter and failed social movements, Bab al-Shams provides something desperately needed: creative thinking, new models of protest, a form of grassroots politics that outstrips the rhetoric of Likud and Fatah. More On ABC Radio Religion and Ethics Report - Faith in politics, the demise of Roger Mahony ABC Radio National | Wednesday 6 February 2013 5.30pm Presented by Andrew West Jesuit writer Thomas Reese discusses the dramatic decision by the Catholic Church in the United States to strip one its most senior prelates, Cardinal Roger Mahony, of all his authority after the release of confidential files revealed he covered up sexual abuse by priests when he was Archbishop of Los Angeles. In the first of three interviews examining the religious belief or background of the leaders of Australia's three main parties - Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Christine Milne - we ask if, despite her declared atheism, the Prime Minister still carries with her some of the Baptist faith of her youth. And one of Britain's leading political thinkers, the Labour MP Dr Jon Cruddas, talks about the inspiration he is drawing from both Catholic social teaching and the work of Aristotle, as he prepares the Labour Party's policy platform for the next British election. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Unsubscribe  © 2013 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use