Religion News Selection 35 (Sept 4 - 11)
(10 September 16)Religion News Selection
September 4 - 11, 2016
A
selection of religion news stories from Australia.
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
Inclusion here does not endorse the veracity or quality of any particular item
– it just means
I found it worth reading and reflecting on (even if badly conceived or poorly
written).
If you’re after the
unexpurgated (and reasonably unbiased) version,
see Religion News Australia which
appears weekly on our website.
ABUSE
Man abused by three NSW
Marist Brothers, royal commission told (Brisbane Times)
Sept 5 - A man who told an inquiry how he was sexually abused by three Marist
brothers over years at a Newcastle school says his principal put his hands up
and said "there's nothing I can do" when he reported being touched.
Paedophile Marist
Brother asked mother if boy left suicide note, inquiry told (The Guardian, Australia)
Sept 6 - After 13-year-old Andrew Nash took his own life, a now-notorious
paedophile Marist brother turned up to his house and asked his mother whether
the boy had left a note.
Catholic church to use
late Ballarat bishop's estate to help victims of abuse (The Guardian, Australia)
Sept 6 - The multimillion-dollar estate of the former Ballarat bishop Ronald
Mulkearns will be used to help victims of abuse, the Catholic diocese has said.
ANGLICAN CHURCH
Religious shift on
same-sex marriage: Anglicans should vote 'according to conscience' (Brisbane Times)
Sept 10 - Christians should vote "according to their conscience" in a
same-sex marriage plebiscite and the Church "must accept" the result,
Australia's most senior Anglican has told followers.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Q&A: ‘replace Jew
with Muslim’ (The Australian)
Sept 6 - Shakespeare should be adapted to highlight modern day discrimination
in Australia.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Catholic Church
Mother Teresa: Do
miracles have a place in the modern-day Catholic Church? (ABC News)
Sept 6 - As Catholics around the world celebrate the canonisation of their
newest saint Mother Teresa, debate is raging over whether miracles have a place
in the modern-day Church.
Pope Francis culls
Pell’s powers (The Australian)
Sept 8 - Many of George Pell’s wideranging powers over Vatican finances have
been taken away from him and handed to others.
Islam
Hajj: Almost 1.5 million
Muslims launch pilgrimage undeterred by deadly 2015 stampede (ABC News)
Sept 10 - From Asia, Africa and points in between, nearly 1.5 million Muslims
have launched the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, undeterred
by a stampede last year that cost around 2,300 lives.
Religious Violence
Losing ground, fighters
and morale – is it all over for Isis? (The Guardian, Australia)
Sept 8 – (Opinion: Martin Chulov) It has been a bad few months for Islamic
State (Isis).
Other
Sunday blues: Growing up
in an ultra-strict church (The
Guardian, Australia)
Sept 10 – (Opinion: Joan McFadden) I didn’t know we were different until I
started school.
ISLAM
Islamic State call for
attacks on specific locations in Australia 'propaganda', Victorian police say.
(ABC News)
Sept 6 - Victoria Police and Premier Daniel Andrews have dismissed as
propaganda a call in an Islamic State (IS) magazine for attacks to be carried
out on specific locations in Melbourne and Sydney.
Also:
There's real and present
danger in IS call for lone wolves to 'scorch with terror' (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sept 6 – (Opinion: Michael Bachelard) This is not the first time the so-called
Islamic State has called for lone-wolf attacks in Australia.
POLITICS
Dear Pauline: Is that a
Koran in your handbag? (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sept 6 – (Opinion: Maher Mughrabi ) Dear Pauline, It was a pleasant surprise to
hear that you are currently carrying around a copy of the Koran.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Scientology opens huge
new Australasian headquarters in Sydney (news.com.au)
Sept 6 - IN A well-heeled suburb surrounded by bushland on Sydney’s north
shore, a hulking concrete monolith designed as a “scientific wonderland” with
soundproof rubber rooms peers out from its camouflaged position built into a
hillside.
Also:
Scientologists fighting
decline (The Australian)
Sept 10 - Sydney has become home to what Scientology calls its biggest
“spiritual centre” outside of the United States.
Presbyterian Church sign
on same-sex marriage divides regional community of Taree (ABC News)
Sept 8 - Signs displayed outside a church in the New South Wales mid-north
coast town of Taree are causing a stir, with some arguing they are offensive
while others welcome them.
Religious harassment at
work: would you intervene? (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sept 9 – (Opinion: James Adonis ) Imagine this scenario.
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