ACBC MediaBlog Podcast
By ACBC Media Office
The podcast examines and explores important issues within the Catholic Church and invites people to talk about the topic more deeply.
For more information on these stories, visit mediablog.catholic.org.au/
ACBC MediaBlog PodcastJun 09, 2021
#01 MediaBlog Podcast with Paul Osborne - Sandie Cornish and David G. Kirchhoffer talks about "On Human Dignity"
‘Dignitas Infinita—On Human Dignity’ was released by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on April 8, 2024. The declaration presents a survey and summary of the Church’s teaching on the concept of human dignity as a way of correcting certain misunderstandings that the Dicastery claims have emerged about the concept in recent years. It includes a series of reflections on issues that it sees as ‘grave violations’ of human dignity. It is arguably the first ‘summary’ of Catholic moral teaching issued by the Dicastery since the Instruction ‘gnitas Personae—on Certain Bioethical Questions’ in 2008. (From David Kirchhoffer's Eureka Street article Vatican invites global discussion on human dignity (eurekastreet.com.au))
The Australian Catholic University's Sandie Cornish and David Kirchhoffer talk to Paul Osborne from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference about the document.
Episode Guests
Dr Sandie Cornish is a Senior Lecturer in Theology at Australian Catholic University and a Member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. She specialises in Catholic social teaching, thought and action.
Associate Professor David G. Kirchhoffer is Director, Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University
Media Blog Podcast - Episode #2 Minimum Wage w/ Bishop Vincent Long & Dr Tom Barnes
The Catholic Church has for decades made a submission on the national minimum wage. Why does the Church do that? How did it come to propose a 6.5 % increase this year? In this episode, Bishop Vincent Long and Dr Tom Barnes join the Media Blog podcast to answer those questions and more.
Media Blog Podcast - Episode #1 Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries w/ Dr Virginia Miller
In this episode, we’re talking with Dr Virginia Miller, a research fellow with the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. Dr Miller's book, Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence, has just been published. The book looks at inquiries in Ireland, the US and Australia, while the podcast focuses on the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Australians can download Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence for free from Firenze University Press or purchase it from Italian bookseller IBS.