Frank Brennan
Columnist at Eureka Street
Writer at Freelance
CEO of Catholic Social Services Australia
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2 weeks ago |
eurekastreet.com.au | Frank Brennan
When discussing the way forward in light of the Voice referendum result with Phillip Adams back on 17 June 2024, Linda Burney, the then Minister for Indigenous Australians, put the matter so clearly: ‘That issue of bipartisanship is so important.
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3 weeks ago |
eurekastreet.com.au | Frank Brennan
SUPPORT RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS IN A TIME OF DIVISIONWe need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper. Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
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1 month ago |
johnmenadue.com | Frank Brennan
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 preserver of all that Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) had achieved in his long papacy from 1978 until his death in 2005. Ratzinger as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had provided much of the intellectual ballast for John Paul’s theological positions.
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1 month ago |
eurekastreet.com.au | Frank Brennan
By 2013, the papacy had all become too much for Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). A great intellectual, he was not given to the burdens of administration and political intrigue within the Vatican Curia besieged by scandals of child sexual abuse and financial maladministration. Ratzinger resigned and a conclave convened. Bergoglio aged 76 thought there was no chance of his being elected this time around. He came to Rome with nothing to lose and nothing to gain.
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2 months ago |
johnmenadue.com | Frank Brennan
The Vatican has now released the official English translation of the relatio synodi, the concluding document from the Synod of Bishops convened by Pope Francis to consider pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelisation.
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This was my opening keynote address at the Catholic Social Services Australia National Conference: https://t.co/4djTw7IJYr
To form government in Australia today, you need to be able to stop the boats safely, lawfully, and effectively, while treating everyone, especially the sick, humanely and decently. If you can't do that, you don't deserve to be in government. See https://t.co/K1ZJ6gqAZE