Lutheran and Roman Catholic world leaders mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

Individual Catholics arguing for conscience and autonomy in regard to issues like abortion and contraception

Light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair

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.

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.

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.

The trial of Galileo Gallilei in 1633 was a scandal for both science and theology. Neither were advanced by the verdict.