This Week's Highlights: Restoring Faith in the Church

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion This week's highlights Restoring faith: Child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church ABC Religion and Ethics - 15 Nov 2012 The Catholic Church cannot recover from this crisis unless there is a clean slate. Maybe the royal commission will be the catalyst for a new generation of leaders to begin the process of rebuilding and renewal. More Confronting the culture of abuse within the Catholic Church ABC Religion and Ethics - 14 Nov 2012 If the entire church has been slow to respond properly to abuse, the slowest part has been its bureaucracy. In being so defensive, blaming the media, they show that they have missed what truly matters. More The unreasonableness of naturalism ABC Religion and Ethics - 15 Nov 2012 Today's politically correct version of naturalism hides behind an idealised vision of Darwin as someone who would have welcomed the molecular revolution in genetics but would never license eugenics. More Did Darwin kill God? No, but Dawkins killed evolution ABC Religion and Ethics - 16 Nov 2012 Ultra-Darwinists have killed Darwin's child, because they are in fact lapsed religious fundamentalists - they refuse to accept that anything can pass through the birth canal of evolution and be real. More This week on ABC TV Compass - Divine Women - Part 5 ABC1 | Sunday 18 November 2012 06:30 pm Presented by Geraldine Doogue Bettany Hughes discovers how the Dark Ages was a golden age for a few remarkable women: Theodora, a prostitute who became an empress; the wives of the prophet Mohammad; and, Wu Zetien - a courtesan who harnessed the power of a philosophy, Buddhism, to rule China as Emperor.  More Songs of Praise - Llanberis (Rpt) ABC1 | Sunday 18 November 2012 11.30am Presented by Aled Jones Aled Jones travels to Llanberis at the foot of Mt Snowdon in North Wales. Aled meets Professor Gwyn Thomas, a former National Poet for Wales. The hymns are sung by members of local congregations in St Padarn's Church.  More This week on ABC Radio Encounter - The mysteries are still there ABC Radio National | Sunday 18 November 2012 5.00pm Presented by David Rutledge Science and technology are enabling us to see further into the universe. And as they do, we see further back in time, toward the point where it all began. Most major religions have creation stories, but what's their relationship to the scientific account of our origins? Should these stories be discarded, as we survey the empirical data? Or do religious and scientific cosmologies have something to say to each other? Producer: Bill Bunbury. Repeated Wednesdays at 1.00pm  More For The God Who Sings - Heavenly harmony ABC Classic FM | Sunday 18 November 2012 10.30pm Presented by Stephen Watkins 'From harmony, from heavenly harmony'. As Patron of Music, Cecilia harnesses the imagination of composers and of women, beckoning music's Hebrew ancestor Jubal and Greek's Orpheus to collaborate on the sublime stage of spheres.  More Religion and Ethics Report - A royal commission, a new Archbishop of Canterbury ABC Radio National | Wednesday 14 November 2012 5.30pm Presented by Andrew West The editor of Britain's Church Times, Paul Handley, discusses the challenges that the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will face, including the issue of women bishops in the UK, the liberal drift in the American and Canadian Anglican churches and the hardening of conservative positions in the Australian-led 'Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans'. Child protection expert and legal scholar Patrick Parkinson discusses the commonwealth Royal Commission into sex abuse within the church. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Sunday Nights - The Issue, The Interview and The Goodlife ABC Local Radio Across Australia | Sunday 18 November 2012 10.05 pm Presented by Noel Debien Conversations on important issues concerning religion, spirituality, ethics and values.  More The Rhythm Divine - Yasmin Levy: Ladino love songs ABC Radio National | Sunday 18 November 2012 6.00am Presented by Geoff Wood The Ladino songs of the Sephardim, the Jews of Spain expelled in 1492, have survived more than 500 years of dispersal and exile. Yasmin Levy, one of the world's great interpreters of Ladino music, joins us to sample her new album Libertad, explaining why she adds flamenco, tango and Turkish elements to these sacred and secular songs, and how she's keeping her father's dream alive. Repeated Mondays at 1.00am.  More The Spirit of Things - Secular Fundamentalists and Judeo-Christian Ethic ABC Radio National | Sunday 18 November 2012 6.05pm Presented by Rachael Kohn Secular fundamentalists are removing all traces of God and religion from the Public Square in America, says Dennis Prager, popular radio show host and author of Still the Best Hope (2012). Prager, who cites some alarming examples of 'religion cleansing' is also a Jewish defender of the Judeo-Christian ethic, which gave us the secular state but not secularism, a product of the Left. Debbie Weissman, the President of the International Council of Christians and Jews thinks the Judeo-Christian ethic is a helpful but limited idea. Repeated Tuesdays at 1.00pm  More Unsubscribe  © 2012 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use