The WA Humanities Symposium is a three day interdisciplinary conference showcasing the diverse nature of research and scholarship in the humanities in Western Australia. We hope you will join us in the renewal of this historic and fruitful event. 8 …
(from Catholic World Report) If the last two years of Synods and the resulting Apostolic Exhortation have taught us anything, it is that the question of allowing civilly divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion is not one which is …
Many of you would fondly remember the Paideia Lecture series we ran in 2014 with Associate Professor John Kinder. Kinder’s lectures were recently published as an article at the Australian eJournal of Theology. The eJournal is open access and, as …
The following is the paper presented by Dr David Daintree of the Christopher Dawson Center for Cultural Studies in Hobart, Tasmania to the Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture Inc. in Perth WA on 1 March 2016. This paper first …
By Dr Marco Ceccarelli In the latest instalment of the Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture Speakers’ Forum, Dr Conor Sweeny, from Melbourne’s John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, led his audience on an unusual yet intriguing journey …
So often in contemporary Catholic and Christian circles, there is a tendency to abandon any reference to Christ and his Church when debating thorny marriage issues in our culture. For those of us in Australia who have not suffered the judicial …
With the Year of Mercy just around the corner, it is fitting to return to what is perhaps the greatest explication of the doctrine of mercy in recent years, that of Pope, now Saint, John Paul II in his encyclical Dives in …
The Merciful Call to Holiness Addressing the Dualism Between Mercy and Doctrine in Cardinal Kasper’s Proposal Ever since it was first floated in his 1977 work, Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposal to apply mercy to those suffering outside full communion with …
by Marco Ceccarelli of The Record Southern River MP Peter Abetz has this week delivered an insightful lecture entitled Human Trafficking and Prostitution in WA at the Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture Speakers’ Forum. The talk took place on …
Article by Marco Ceccarelli, The Record One may wonder what U2’s famous song Where the streets have no name could possibly have in common with the Book of Exodus, or what connection could be made between rock/metal band Evanescence’ s Anywhere and St …