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Religion and Ethics Report - The Year in Review

Published: December 20, 2012

The clerical sex abuse crisis. The submission of women. Same-sex marriage. Upheaval in the Islamic world. These issues have rocked the world of religion, at home and abroad, in 2012. Two of Australia’s most astute commentators on faith in public life -- Barney Zwartz, the outgoing Religion Editor of The Age, and Michael Mullins, the editor of the Jesuit magazine Eureka Street -- put the issues in perspective.

This edition of the ABC's Religion and Ethics Report has been braodcast but it can be downloaded and p odcast from the ABC website.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/a-review-of-a-year-of-religious-upheaval/4424052

 

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