The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...

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Robert Manne, A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars, Latrobe University Press with Black Inc In my youth I was puzzled why so many older people devoured ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

In recent weeks, discussion of the conflict between Hamas and Israel has taken two different directions. First, it has focused on the revulsion at the brutal effects of the conflict on the people of ...

Approaching Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June) with the theme Bridging Now to Next, the nation is aware that there is still unfinished business on the national agenda when it comes to the due ...

In the world of music, the creation and first performance of a new oratorio is no small event. Even more so when the oratorio, by the Melbourne composer Nicholas Buc, deals with nothing less than ...

The release of DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence model has shaken assumptions about the dominance of US tech giants. Amid stock crashes, claims of IP breaches and talk of a ‘Sputnik moment’, a ...

President Trump’s second term in office has been tumultuous. The global disruptor in-chief, abetted by Elon Musk, has commenced what could only be described as a chaotic shake-up of international ...

During a university tutorial this year, I showed students a newspaper report on the best places to have coffee in Melbourne and a similar story which listed the same cafés. I asked them which article ...

Since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017), Australia has become more attuned to the complexities of power, consent, and exploitation within trusted ...

And just like that, January has come and gone. Named for the Roman god Janus, the two-faced deity of dawns, births, weddings, and new ventures, it’s a month can feel both energising and chaotic.