Tag: Conservative
Catholic conservatives, or “conservationists?”
In the life of the church, dismantling perennial teaching on sexuality or messing with the Mass is like drilling for oil through the centre of Uluru or cutting down the last Wollemi pine tree. Conservatives are more like conservationists, writes Dr Philippa Martyr.
When it comes to church, there’s no “left-wing” or “right-wing”
Do you ever hear the terms “left-wing” and “right-wing” used when people talk about the church? Or “progressive” and “conservative”? Beyond politics, true social justice comes from a living faith in the church, writes Dr Philippa Martyr.
Kevin Donnelly: Looking backwards leads us forwards
One of the tropes used by the cultural-left when denigrating conservatism is to attack it as backward looking, ossified and irrelevant.
At the same time,...
Dr Kevin Donnelly: A fatal confusion of ideas
What does it mean to be a conservative? Such are the tumultuous times we now live in where Western societies across the globe, including...
