Politics
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When does disagreement become scapegoating?
When Australian One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson delivered her first National Press Club address on 17 June, she was careful to insist that her quarrel was with ideas, not people. “I am not opposed to transgender people,” she said. “I am simply saying that a transgender woman should not be allowed into woman’s sport or…
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Andy Burnham’s Catholic moment
Faith and political leadership: Andy Burnham’s faith background raises questions about whether religion truly shapes political leanings across Western democracies today.
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JD Vance’s conversion: politics and Catholicism don’t mix
Baptized in 2019, Vance frames his Catholic conversion around Bonhoeffer’s “cheap grace” concept while his politics tell another story.
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Gen Z Mormon women leaving way faster than expected
New survey data shows Gen Z women raised Mormon are staying at far lower rates than any prior generation, driven by politics, purity culture and power.
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Faith is back in Democratic politics
After decades of watching Democrats dodge the God question, perhaps, finally, they may have an answer.
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Pope Leo doesn’t mess around
Vatican officials pushed back hard after Trump’s ambassador tried to frame the pope’s political criticism as merely secular.
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Doing theology in times of political crisis
The collision of political sovereignty and ecclesial authority exposes fundamental questions of legitimacy within a fragmented normative landscape. Appeals to tradition obscure irreducible complexity, crisis functions as rhetorical apparatus, and the inexorable dynamics of imperial decline reconfigure authority itself—compelling discernment between authentic moral critique and instrumentalised religion.
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Absolutely Right
Two voices echo across time: one calling for battle, another for God’s kingdom on earth. Between them lies the clash of worldviews shaping our age, where populist leaders and faithful dreamers compete to write the story of tomorrow.
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