Features
A voice for Pakistan's women
- Published: 27 January 2012
- By: Eva Marie Kolman
When rape happens in Pakistan it is always the woman’s fault. The increasing threat of rape and violence towards women in Pakistan is something Sister Nazreen Daniels witnesses every day but she is determined to continue supporting the victims of abuse, writes Eva Maria Kolman.
Tolkien's best in the bargain bin
- Published: 19 January 2012
- By: Robert Hiini
Lovers, one of them a future great novelist kept apart by a priest, the last thing Robert Hiini expected to find in the bargain bin of an antique shop in Rockingham.
Bishop Brady's missing years
- Published: 30 November 2011
- By: Sr Frances Stibi
The fog surrounding Perth’s controversial first bishop is lifting.
Where there is sand, there is life
- Published: 23 November 2011
- By: Patricia Zapor
Aid to build dams of sand has brought hope to those coping with drought in East Africa, reports Patricia Zapor.
To save a life is to save the world
- Published: 23 November 2011
- By: Robert Hiini
For 15 years, the volunteers and staff of Pregnancy Assistance have been reassuring women they can choose to keep their unborn babies and can count on being supported.
The secret life of Pope Pius XII
- Published: 16 November 2011
- By: David Kerr
The Jewish New Yorker who has made it his life’s work to clear the name of Pope Pius XII of being anti-Semitic believes the wartime pontiff went undercover to save the lives of Jews in Rome. David Kerr reports.
Blueprint for beauty
- Published: 09 November 2011
- By: Elizabeth Bogoni
When it comes time to consider building a new church, the principle of beauty is of paramount importance, writes Elizabeth Bogoni.
A short guide to Catholic economic thinkers
- Published: 09 November 2011
- By: Tim Wallace
The ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek have their place, but there is a spiritually richer tradition of economics to explore.
Idolatry of the market
- Published: 09 November 2011
- By: John Médaille
Attempts to discredit the Vatican’s new document on global financial reform shows something rotten in Catholic intellectual circles, writes John Médaille.
Why we need a society of owners
- Published: 02 November 2011
- By: Richard Aleman
