Christopher Dawson Society - Audio Library Podcast
1) Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse in the Church - Dr Theresa Burke
The sexual abuse crisis has polarised the Church, and injured us all. Those who have survived clerical and other sexual abuse need the Church's healing power, but they are often alienated and unwelcom...Show More
2) Catholic Public Life in Hard Times; An Augustinian Response - Renee Kohler-Ryan
What is a Catholic person to do in the face of so much turmoil in public life? Should we retreat, or should we respond by entering more fully into the public square? St. Augustine of Hippo was perpetu...Show More
Catholic Public Life in Hard Times; An Augustinian Response - Renee Kohler-Ryan
28:01 | Feb 3rd, 2020
3) "Dreaming with Demons" - Matt Tan
Abstract: We often associate sloth with laziness, but is it possible for a culture to be productive and still be slothful? In this talk, Dr Matthew Tan explores how Sloth is arguably the most pervasiv...Show More
4) "I Sleep But My Heart Wakes" - Dr Philippa Martyr
Dreams form the flipside of human consciousness: they are perennially fascinating and unpredictable. They have shaped history, art, culture, science, and religion in countless ways. Christianity accep...Show More
5) Who Is my Neighbour? Refugees and Dignity of the Human Person’ - Anthony Krohn
Anthony Krohn has practised in administrative law since 1990, as a solicitor from 1990 to 1997, and as a barrister from 1997 to the present. He has appeared in many refugee and migration cases in the ...Show More
Who Is my Neighbour? Refugees and Dignity of the Human Person’ - Anthony Krohn
1:29:46 | Jan 4th, 2017
6) The Duty to Disagree: Recovering the Art of Moral Disagreement - Scott Stephens
This Speaker's Forum featured a presentation of a paper entitled “The Duty to Disagree: Recovering the Art of Moral Disagreement" by Scott Stephens, editor of the ABC Religion & Ethics blog, and co-ho...Show More
The Duty to Disagree: Recovering the Art of Moral Disagreement - Scott Stephens
1:38:31 | Dec 15th, 2016
7) How Religious Belief leads to Violence - Fr Mark Baumgarten
In the face of atheist critiques many believers seek to downplay the relationship between religion and violence. In contrast the work of acclaimed thinker Rene Girard suggests a more complex relations...Show More
8) Holding Fast through Stormy Waters - Professor John Haldane
John Joseph Haldane is a Scottish philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a papal adviser to the Vatican and is credited with coining the term Analytical Thomism. He is himself a Thomist in th...Show More
9) Complicity and Cooperation in Evil - Dr Helen Watt
From the spheres of business to medicine we are often tempted with cooperating with morally evil actions in order to save our jobs and careers.Sometimes these decisions can even be legitimate, but som...Show More
10) The New Evangelisation: How to Be a Hobbit - Dr Conor Sweeney
Evangelisation is not activism. It has nothing to do with the techniques, programs, and lobbying that defines social and political activism. Instead, it has everything to do with the witness of one wh...Show More