- Christmas Message 2009 25 Dec 2009
Christmas should be a time of hope. This is not wishful thinking, much less any appeal to magic. It is not turning a blind eye to unpleasant facts; not a victory of mind over matter. ...
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- Mary MacKillop - Good News for All Australians 20 Dec 2009
Australians received a welcome Christmas present with the Vatican announcement on Saturday that the final hurdle has been cleared for Mary MacKillop's canonisation next year. ...
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- On receiving an honorary doctorate of laws 18 Dec 2009
Universities are products of the Catholic Church and of the Middle Ages, a time of global warming four or five degrees hotter than today, which saw the rediscovery of Aristotle, the resurgence of the Papacy, the Crusades, the imposition of priestly celibacy in the western world and the founding of the religious orders of friars, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. ...
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- Religious Freedom and Public Policy 20 Nov 2009
As many of you are aware, the Human Rights Commission has been conducting an inquiry into freedom of religion in Australia for over a year. ...
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- Without God We are Nothing 4 Oct 2009
My claims this afternoon are simple. It is more reasonable to believe in God than to reject the hypothesis of God by appealing to chance; more reasonable also to believe than to escape into agnosticism. ...
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- Intolerant Tolerance 12 Jul 2009
Some secularists seem to like one-way streets. Their distaste for Christianity leads them to seek to drive it not only from the public square but even from any provision of education, health care, and welfare services. ...
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- Easter Message For 2009 9 Apr 2009
At the Christian feast of Easter, we recall the death and resurrection of Christ nearly 2000 years ago. ...
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- Social Capital 4 Feb 2009
This is the first time that I have been invited to address a large national union meeting although on a number of occasions I have spoken to smaller groups of unionists. ...
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