The Prime Minister’s attempt to toughen Australia’s anti-terrorism laws to revoke the citizenship of people either engaging in or advocating terrorism reflects the government’s concern about the radicalisation of some young Muslims who are being recruited by Islamic State to fight in Syria and Iraq. Leaks from Cabinet conveyed deep divisions in Cabinet on the…
In his second encyclical, Laudato Si, Pope Francis has proposed a dialogue on the environmental problems facing the world and called on people to work together to solve the challenges facing us in advancing human welfare and respecting the natural environment. Pope Francis The formal title of the 82-page document consists of the first two…
With Greece at the point where it can no longer meet payments to its creditors on its mountain of debt, it and the European Union stand on the edge of a precipice from which there seems no going back. Alexis Tsipras The central problem is the Greek Government debt, now estimated to exceed €400 billion ($580 billion), almost twice the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), and nearly twice the average of the Eurozone. Since its debt crisis began in 2010, Greece has been granted two huge loans by the European Central Bank and other financial institutions: €110 billion in 2010,…
Following evidence given to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Ballarat, the media and some witnesses have targeted Cardinal George Pell, blaming him for both the sexual abuse cover-up and the Church’s poor response to abuse allegations that were made during the 1970s and 1980s. Cardinal Pell sits at the…
