Sunday Nights with John Cleary: Recent Episodes
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Sunday Nights with John Cleary is a unique weekly programme exploring the issues, events and people driving developments in religion, ethics, spirituality, popular culture, values and beliefs in our country.
Australia's most controversial bishop, Daniel Mannix was the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until is death at 99 years of age in 1963.
Richard Leonard on movies including Ken Loach's "I Daniel Blake", "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Fantastic beasts and where to find them"
John Cleary reviews the year in religion and ethics in conversation with Samina Yasmeen, Bill Leadbetter, Frank Sheehan, Angela McCarthy and Chris Bedding
Millions of hits on a church Facebook page, outspoken on many social issues, and recipient of the Australian Abysinnian of the Year at the Australian Muslim Achievement Awards for 2016. Rod Bower is in conversation with John Cleary.
Repairing the division existing between social and Christian conservatives and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community
Since the failed military coup in Turkey this year, the Turkish government has cracked down on organisations it claims to pose a threat to national security, and has targeted leaders of The Gülen Movement.
Lebanese-Muslim communities say they have been unfairly called out by Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
In the mid 1980's, Fr Sean McDonagh published a book, To Care for the Earth, on environmental responsibility back when the environment was not on the agenda. He was called a "naive idealist" for his passion for the environment.
Muslims, Baptists, Orthodox Jews, Progressive Jews, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics who advocate for Same-Sex Civil Marriage
Dr Provan's new book "Convenient Myths" talks about how modern culture constructs myths to suit the the temper of the times.
Penitence, penitentiary, reform, and reformatory were words of promise for our prison system. Today, have we lost hope in our prisons?
Individual Catholics arguing for conscience and autonomy in regard to issues like abortion and contraception
The vexed question of whether carrots or sticks are more effective when it comes to welfare
Lutheran and Roman Catholic world leaders mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
Thoughts on the political struggle over the independent role of the Australian Solicitor General.
The 17th & 18th century Enlightenment philosophers have been criticised for being anti-religious. But just how opposed to God were they?
Medea is a figure from ancient Greece, who's had a lively reputation in Western literature and art. She was a symbol of evil, but also of power, a sorceress, and a goddess. Today she's most interesting to feminists, and she regularly appears with the abortion issue.
This week around Australia the ABC has been hosting conversations about Rebooting your life, and of course throughout human history one of the central elements in any form of reboot has been religion, from meditation to pilgrimage, from confession to conversion, the Religious Way has been the dominant way, until perhaps a hundred years ago and the innovations of Dr’s Adler, Jung and Freud.
John Cleary is joined by regular guest Tom Roberts, Editor-at-Large of the US National Catholic Reporter.
Born in Cleverland, Ohio, Bishop Irenej has completed his time as Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Australia and New Zealand, and has been elected as the New Bishop of Eastern America.
Film critic Fr Richard Leonard SJ with his ethical take on movie-making; for "Sully", "Snowdon" and "My Scientology Movie".
New Federal member for Cowan in WA, and the first Muslim woman elected to our Federal parliament
The trial of Galileo Gallilei in 1633 was a scandal for both science and theology. Neither were advanced by the verdict.
The founder of analytical psychology and what he discovered on the parallels between psychoanalysts and witch doctors.
The ritual making and destruction of sand mandalas in Tibetan Buddhism, as highlighted on the ABC TV's Compass program.
A Sydney Anglican minister appears to be the first casualty of the same-sex marriage debate.
On the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Mormonism, Rachael Kohn spoke to Professor Douglas Davies about the life of Joseph Smith.
Surveys are pointing to a sizeable fear of Muslims among Australians.
What might these findings mean for Australia’s half a million Muslims, and how might we respond better to our anxiety?
Rachael Kohn talks with Cambridge Professor of Religious History, Gill Evans, about people who've found themselves on the wrong end of church doctrine.
The presenter of ABC RN's Religion and Ethics Report joins Sunday Nights to survey the latest in the world of religion.
A Principal Correspondent for The Hindu newspaper explains the tensions between religious practice and modern life in India.
When Captain James Cook left Tahiti in 1769 to explore the Polynesian islands and Batavia, he enlisted Chief Priest Tupa'ia as his navigator.
Australian Jesuit Priest Fr Phil Crotty spent 6o years of his life in India. Now in his 80s he'd love to go back.
In the book "Armenia, Australia & the Great War," co-author Peter Stanley tells the stories of unsung Australians who helped survivors and orphans of the Armenian genocide.
Fifteen years to the day when planes slammed into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, our world seems to polarise along religious and ethnic lines in ways we could not have imagined prior.
Catholic school principal Paul Tobias has made his own personal submission to the Royal Commission into sexual abuse about how his own church needs to respond better.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world," said Gandhi. This belief informed his policy of peaceful resistance to British rule.
"Let's filter out all that religious stuff. He surely couldn't still be one of those." Rev Tim Costello says he IS still one of those and that his faith is central to the way he lives.
Mother Teresa is canonised, Pope Francis declares September 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and more on the latest religion news with Tom Roberts, Editor-at-large of the National Catholic Reporter.
Avia Madar, Rahaf Ahmed, Jayniel Shandil and Steff Fenton talk about the issues that directly affect young Australians today, including refugee rights, mental health, racism, the environment and religious extremism.
John Cleary caught up with Professor Turner when he was visiting Australia recently give a public lecture, On Denying the Right God.
Rachael Kohn discusses resurgent interest in all things Celtic with author Marcus Tanner.
Leading women of the Sisters of St Joseph on their work among the poor and marginalised
Are we becoming a meaner society in which questions of economic and social justice and even basic human rights are sacrificed on the altar of self interest?
Dr Martin Polkinghorne joins Rachael Kohn to unravel the dual faith traditions of Cambodia's famous temple complex.
Ireland’s champion of Marriage Equality is now in charge of the Australian Marriage Equality campaign.
Wesley Mission has launched a new program designed to support parents seeking to re-enter the workforce.
The Turkish Government is blaming the recent coup attempt on the Gulen Movement. Who are they?
Turkish Analyst Dr Aykan Erdemir, then Competition and User Choice in Government Human Services
The Editor at Large of the US National Catholic Reporter shares the latest developments around the Catholic world.
The Musical Director and the Priest in charge of London's renowned Temple Church boy choristers discuss their upcoming tour of Australia.
As Australia marks NAIDOC week, Sunday Nights explores the continued power of the dreaming, and hopes for treaty among Indigenous Australian ministers and those ministering with them.
Islam and politics became something of a punching bag during the election campaign. Our panel sorts through the issues.
Ahmad Shuja describes how unsafe and unstable Afghanistan remains for returning refugees
The nun's habit has divided people since it came into being shortly after Catholicism itself emerged.
A multicultural women's AFL team made up mostly of Muslim women is smashing stereotypes in Western Sydney.
Rev Mascord's new book "Faith without Fear" is about burning issues confronting modern Evangelical Christians.
The landmark school program on sexual orientation and gender identity is lauded by its supporter but pilloried by its critics.
So what's actually in it?
For the very first time in over 1200 years Eastern Orthodox bishops of the world are meeting together this month with their leader, ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Pastor Steve Chong and his wife Naomi travelled to northern Iraq with Open Doors Australia, which focuses on supporting Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.