Catholics of Oz

Should a killer's execution be livestreamed? The Fort Hood case prompts Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight and Lino Saubolle to trace how Catholic teaching on the death penalty developed, then a Tesla that flies.

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Without sacrifice, there is no love. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight and Lino Saubolle read the Australian bishops' call to heal social division through encounter, then meet the Tilcayo tiger cat, a new species from Bolivia.

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Not all roads led to Rome, and salt water doesn't turn fresh. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle read Ezekiel's impossible river for the Season of Creation, then take apart what everyone thinks they know about Roman roads.

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AI can imitate empathy, but it can't love you back. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle unpack Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, then find out what happens in a dog's brain when you smile.

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Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories.

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Caroline's away, so Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle tackle Pope Leo's teaching on human dignity, subsidiarity, and the common good — then pivot to five citizen-science projects you can join this week, from mosquito traps to Martian clouds.

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Two ways to build: a tower that scatters everyone who raises it, or a wall rebuilt family by family. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle take on part one of Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas — plus sugar found in deep space.

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Can the Church keep humanity at the center of the AI age? Dom Bettinelli joins Lindsay Sant and Caroline Knight on Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica humanitas, a radiation-eating Chernobyl fungus, and StarQuest's 20th year.

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Never accept a label in place of a story. Lindsay Sant brings notes from Melbourne's Proclaim 26 evangelization conference, Caroline Knight reports on 59,000-year-old Neanderthal dentistry, and Lino Saubolle weighs in.

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Young Australians are returning to faith at rates nobody predicted. Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli tells Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle what's behind it, and what St Patrick's Cathedral has to do with it.

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