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Christopher Dawson and the Intellectual Roots of Campion College Australia
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 Dawson saw the centrality of education to the process of cultural transmission – the ways in which a society passes on its inheritance of learning and memory as an expression of its cultural identity.
Continue reading “Christopher Dawson and the Intellectual Roots of Campion College Australia “WHY CATHOLICS ARE SUITED TO POLITICS
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 former government minister who is Catholic]!’ Then he asked, ‘What is it with you Catholics and politics?’
Continue reading “WHY CATHOLICS ARE SUITED TO POLITICS “RESTORING TERRITORY RIGHTS BILL 2022
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 to turn the tables. In the last parliament I said that I rose with a heavy heart; today the weight is doubled. I’m sad that we are fighting what I sense will be a losing battle. I think that, in time, we will look upon this as a huge mistake, but even if the Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 is passed I will not regret standing here today and being counted. There are times in your life when doing so is important, and today for me is absolutely one of those days.
Continue reading “RESTORING TERRITORY RIGHTS BILL 2022 “Letter to the Editor
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 Plimer to the Christopher Dawson Centre. I did not attend the presentation but trust that the article was an accurate summary of the presentation.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor”PRO-ABORTION REACTIONS – NO SURPRISES
BY PETER FLEMING
June 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.
Continue reading “PRO-ABORTION REACTIONS – NO SURPRISES”The Australian Catholic Church, the Bishops, the Catholic Weekly and Russia and Ukraine
Dr Robert Tilley,
Catholic Institute of Sydney
30 May 2022
Disclaimer
I 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 opinions and arguments are mine and mine alone.
The Feminine Genius in The Lord of the Rings
Catherine Sheehan
February 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 genius.
Continue reading “The Feminine Genius in The Lord of the Rings”Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
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 refer to these alternative realities as ideological pseudo-realities.
Continue reading “Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism”The Case Against Abortion
The New York Times
OPINION
ROSS DOUTHAT
The Case Against Abortion
Nov. 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.
Continue reading “The Case Against Abortion”On Zoe’s Law
10 December, 2021
By 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.
Continue reading “On Zoe’s Law”