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Randa Abdel-Fattah sells out Sydney Writers’ Festival appearance
The academic was sensationally dumped from Adelaide Writers’ Week in January, sending the festival into meltdown. Her Sydney appearance has already sold out.
- John Buckley
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TikTok generation meets Socrates: Is this the new education battleground?
In the US, the liberal arts and classical education movement has been under way for about 15 years. Now it’s coming to Australia.
- Jordan Baker
How Australia’s Catholic establishment was ‘shafted’ by the pope and left out of the conclave
For the first time in almost 70 years, the Church’s Australian hierarchy will not have a voice in the election of the next pope.
- Jordan Baker
It’s Sydney and Melbourne versus Brisbane to decide the future of Australia’s Catholic Church
A wider battle over the future of the Catholic Church is fuelling conflict over the leadership and direction of an Australian university.
- Jordan Baker
ACU is an educational institution, not a church
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher’s attempt to theocratise the Australian Catholic University must fail.
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The abortion speech, the student walkout – and the Catholic civil war
A row over an anti-abortion graduation speech prompted high-ranking church officials and conservative lawyers to accuse the Australian Catholic University of failing to uphold the faith.
- Jordan Baker
‘Boots-and-all’ style of Catholicism to roll on after Pell’s death
The late cardinal’s values will remain a prominent feature of the Catholic Church in Australia, experts say.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
For George Pell, ‘Sin City’ was the right place at the right time
In some ways, the outspoken, brawling conservative Catholic from Victoria was better suited to his adopted home in Sydney.
- Michael Koziol
Same-sex couple prompts backlash to Catholic schools’ musical
Sydney Catholic Schools billed its production of School of Rock as taking school musicals to a whole new level. Instead, it has had a flood of complaints.
- Jordan Baker
Catholic Church unhappy with Heaps Gay concert
The Catholic Bishop of Sydney says the City of Sydney council showed “little sensitivity” to people of faith by promoting a Live N’ Queer concert on the forecourt of St Mary’s Cathedral.