Catholic Values and Australian RealitiesAustralian Catholics have made a unique contribution to the nation. At its centre is a solid grasp of the objectivity of ethics. Persons or societies cannot "choose their own values", because what is right and wrong is founded in the way things are. In his wide-ranging book on Australian Catholic thought and action, James Franklin, author of the much-praised polemical history of Australian philosophy, Corrupting the Youth, shows how core Catholic values have played out in the issues where Catholics have challenged their host society - in debates on land rights, immigration and values in schools, and in combats with Freemasons, Protestants and Communists. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Immigration Versus Democracy | 47 |
Campions Australian Catholics | 57 |
Santamarias European Sensibility | 63 |
Secular Versus Catholic Conceptions of | 83 |
Accountancy as Computational Casuistics | 97 |
The Mabo High Court and Natural Law Values | 115 |
Is Jensenism Compatible with Christianity? | 129 |
Stove Hume and Enlightenment | 135 |
Common terms and phrases
Anderson answer anti-Communist Aquinas Archbishop argument ASIO Australasian Catholic Record Australian Catholic History B.A. Santamaria believed bishops Brennan Calwell Campion Catholic Action Catholic Church Catholic Freeman's Journal Catholic philosophy Catholic Weekly Christian commercial law Communism Communist condoms conflict conspiracy David Stove debate Dixon Dobson doctrine Dr Ryan economic Enlightenment ethics evil example faith Franklin Freeman's Journal Freemason Freemasonry fundamental Gospels High Court human ideas intellectual Jensen Jesus judges justice Kensington law and morality lawyers Lodge Mabo Decision Masonic plot massoneria matter Melbourne Movement natural law NSW Freemason objective one’s organisation Owen Dixon P.J. Ryan political priest principles quantifiable Queensland question reason religion reply Revolution rule Ryan's scholasticism schools secular education Sir William Deane social Society South Wales standards Sydney Morning Herald Sydney University terra nullius theory things thought tradition truth values education Vaughan Woodbury worth of persons wrong
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The Pastoral Care of Italians in Australia: Memory and Prophecy Anthony Paganoni Limited preview - 2007 |