AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Religious faith and terrorism.(Letter to the editor)
SIR: "Moderation and democracy have been regular partners," says Archbishop Pell (May 2006). Only very recently and only at home. European democracies have regularly crushed extra-parliamentary opposition with extreme violence. American and Australian democracies didn't even recognise the democratic rights of a large percentage of their populations until well into the second half of the last century. Most democracies have sought to exercise unrestrained power backed by violence overseas both as imperialists and as guardians of their own material interests.
Cardinal Pell's attempt to interpret growth in population rates in terms of belief in a "benign God" is ...
- Cardinal Pell on peace and war "the battle for public...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight February 1, 2008 700+ words
...on "Prospects for Peace and Rumours of War: Religion and Democracy in the Years Ahead." The event marked the launch of Cardinal Pell's book God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics and Society, published by Connor Court and Catholic University...
- Cardinal Pell.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Fuchs, Lucy March 24, 2006 700+ words
...his conscience!). Here again we have what is the greatest temptation of our Catholic hierarchy, the abuse of power. Cardinal Pell is surely aware of church history, which shows again and again how the hierarchy has been wrong and how good people have...
- George Cardinal Pell: creation of the seventh Cardinal of the Australian Church.
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society d'Apice, Richard January 1, 2004 700+ words
...Australian Church. It is not intended to be a detailed history of the cardinalate or the Church in Australia or a biography of Cardinal Pell or any of his Australian forerunner in the College of Cardinals. (1) On 21 October 2003 His Holiness Pope John Paul II...
- The real Islam.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Keating, Sandra Toenies Hunt, Robert Elliott, David November 1, 2006 700+ words
Cardinal Pell's article ("Islam...irresponsible musings of the Jesus Seminar. There are...Us" with much dismay. Cardinal Pell may be a churchman and...that is relevant--not Cardinal Pell's self-serving selection...
- A church of mere humans (I).(book)(The Chosen Ones. The Politics of Salvation...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Thomson, Chris July 1, 2005 700+ words
...m not sure that salvation should be "political", though Jesus can hardly be said to have lived a quiet, retiring life...curiously close relationship with his fellow-conservative, Cardinal Pell. (Reformation? What Reformation?) And the Jensens may...
- Obscurity, alchemy and artifice.(Religion)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Pemble-Smith, Tim September 1, 2006 700+ words
...way; that Melbourne's cathedral was being used to mock Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church; that it should not have been...ordinary Catholics to accept their form of spirituality. Cardinal Pell has himself been widely quoted in the media acknowledging...
- Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Keck, Leander E. August 24, 1994 700+ words
The Historical Jesus" is back. For the third time, we are told. The resurgence of interest in the Jesus of history is evidenced not only by the...reflecting the conclusions of R. W. Funk's Jesus Seminar in which Borg and Crossan are active...
- Jesus: the prequel.("Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt")(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Jones, Beth Felker February 21, 2006 700+ words
...her writing energies to the subject of Jesus. I couldn't help being intrigued. Perhaps...the horror of death, after all, that Jesus came to overcome. And it's in the very human physicality of Jesus, in all that is sacrament and sacramental...
Source: HighBeam Research, Religious faith and terrorism.(Letter to the editor)