by Karl Schmude This article appeared as a Guest Editorial on 6 October 2022, in the Christopher Dawson Centre Newsletter. To subscribe, please fill out this form. We don’t send too many newsletters, rather fewer with content rich, thought pieces intended to spark conversation and community. As one of the world’s foremost historians of culture, Christopher … Continue reading Christopher Dawson and the Intellectual Roots of Campion College Australia   →

31 August, 2022 Professor Matthew Ogilvie  Recently, a friend involved in politics spoke about an unpleasant situation. I shared my advice, which I thought would be midway between Machiavelli and Mother Teresa.  My friend’s face lit up in amazement. He said that he ‘was given the exact same advice in the same words by [a … Continue reading WHY CATHOLICS ARE SUITED TO POLITICS   →

Mr Julian Leeser (Berowra), 2 August, 2022: This is not the first time I’ve risen in this place to speak on this matter. Every few years, the old arguments are dusted off and freshened up and someone wants to raise the flag on this issue or thinks the numbers might finally be in their favour … Continue reading RESTORING TERRITORY RIGHTS BILL 2022  →

Re: Article: ‘Exposing the ‘modern green religion’Catherine Sullivan Note that all references and links in this article were viewed on 23rd May, 2022 or 18th June, 2022. I am writing to express my shock and unease at an article published on the website of the Catholic Archdiocese of Tasmanian describing a presentation from Professor Ian … Continue reading Letter to the Editor →

BY PETER FLEMINGJune 2022 At the time of writing, it has only been twenty-four hours since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v Wade determination of 1973, and two predictable consequences have come to pass.

Dr Robert Tilley, Catholic Institute of Sydney  30 May 2022 DisclaimerI want to make it clear that though I work at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, the opinions expressed herein are mine and not, as far as I know, shared by the Institute or for that matter anyone else who works at the Institute. The … Continue reading The Australian Catholic Church, the Bishops, the Catholic Weekly and Russia and Ukraine →

Catherine SheehanFebruary 2022 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien is a story all about “fair love”. It is a story about the beauty, goodness, and grandeur of sacrificial love.  In this presentation I will examine the three main female characters in LOTR in light of what St John Paull II called the feminine … Continue reading The Feminine Genius in The Lord of the Rings →

December 25, 2020, James Lindsay  Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality. With gratitude to the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper and his important 1970 essay “Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power” for the term and idea, we can … Continue reading Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism →

The New York TimesOPINIONROSS DOUTHATThe Case Against AbortionNov. 30, 2021 A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don’t like to talk about it.

10 December, 2021By Peter Fleming The Crimes Amendment (Zoe’s Law) Bill 2019 in New South Wales is seen by some in the Pro-Life movement as a pathway to the recognition of the human rights of aborted foetuses. Let us hope so.