Welcoming the Vulnerable? Asylum seekers in Australia

Volume 4 Number 1

Australia is coming under criticism for its treatment of those who come to our shores fleeing percecution overseas. Are we welcoming the vulnerable?

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Dominic Ofner
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April 02, 2001

Christian Brothers' Jubilee Mass

Edmund Rice Retreat and Conference Centre, Mulgoa - 8 April 2018

Most Sunday mornings I listen to Ockham’s Razor on ABC Radio National. The razor here has to do with shaving – not beards but the superfluous from logic and design. William of Ockham, the 14th century Franciscan, held that to explain things was to ‘Keep it simple.’ Though religion can be obsessed with obfuscation rather than simplification, Jesus condenses religious observance down to one commandment: ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you’.

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Dominic Ofner
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April 09, 2000
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The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education supports and endorses the ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART. We urge all Australians to take up the Indigenous people's invitation to learn about and promote it.

 

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