Sunday Nights with John Cleary

John Cleary reviews the year in religion and ethics in conversation with Samina Yasmeen, Bill Leadbetter, Frank Sheehan, Angela McCarthy and Chris Bedding

Australia's most controversial bishop, Daniel Mannix was the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until is death at 99 years of age in 1963.

Richard Leonard on movies including Ken Loach's "I Daniel Blake", "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Fantastic beasts and where to find them"

Millions of hits on a church Facebook page, outspoken on many social issues, and recipient of the Australian Abysinnian of the Year at the Australian Muslim Achievement Awards for 2016. Rod Bower is in conversation with John Cleary.

How can we call the banks to account?

On Islam, religion, extremism, migration and the shaping of public policy.

Spiritual insights through fine Arts across Jewish , Christian and Muslim traditions

Repairing the division existing between social and Christian conservatives and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community

Lebanese-Muslim communities say they have been unfairly called out by Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

In the mid 1980's, Fr Sean McDonagh published a book, To Care for the Earth, on environmental responsibility back when the environment was not on the agenda. He was called a "naive idealist" for his passion for the environment.

Since the failed military coup in Turkey this year, the Turkish government has cracked down on organisations it claims to pose a threat to national security, and has targeted leaders of The Gülen Movement.

In Hinduism, sex has a place that's unparalleled in other world religions.

Dr Provan's new book "Convenient Myths" talks about how modern culture constructs myths to suit the the temper of the times.

Supporting women and children through mental- health issues

Muslims, Baptists, Orthodox Jews, Progressive Jews, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics who advocate for Same-Sex Civil Marriage

Penitence, penitentiary, reform, and reformatory were words of promise for our prison system. Today, have we lost hope in our prisons?

The religious roots of the Taiping Rebellion.

Professor of Law at Notre Dame University

The evangelical triumph of President-elect Trump

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

The vexed question of whether carrots or sticks are more effective when it comes to welfare

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

The 17th & 18th century Enlightenment philosophers have been criticised for being anti-religious. But just how opposed to God were they?

Thoughts on the political struggle over the independent role of the Australian Solicitor General.

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.

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.

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.

Has the toxic asylum-seeker debate damaged Australia's Soul?

Film critic Fr Richard Leonard SJ with his ethical take on movie-making; for "Sully", "Snowdon" and "My Scientology Movie".

New Federal member for Cowan in WA, and the first Muslim woman elected to our Federal parliament

Australia's earliest de-radicalising Imam

Professor Frank Brennan passionately arguing about human rights and asylum seekers.

The founder of analytical psychology and what he discovered on the parallels between psychoanalysts and witch doctors.

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Mormonism, Rachael Kohn spoke to Professor Douglas Davies about the life of Joseph Smith.

A Sydney Anglican minister appears to be the first casualty of the same-sex marriage debate.

Surveys are pointing to a sizeable fear of Muslims among Australians. What might these findings mean for Australia’s half a million Muslims, and how might we respond better to our anxiety?

The ritual making and destruction of sand mandalas in Tibetan Buddhism, as highlighted on the ABC TV's Compass program.

The presenter of ABC RN's Religion and Ethics Report joins Sunday Nights to survey the latest in the world of religion.

Rachael Kohn talks with Cambridge Professor of Religious History, Gill Evans, about people who've found themselves on the wrong end of church doctrine.

But how should our sporting heroes play the game, and do they always fight fair?

Australian Jesuit Priest Fr Phil Crotty spent 6o years of his life in India. Now in his 80s he'd love to go back.

When Captain James Cook left Tahiti in 1769 to explore the Polynesian islands and Batavia, he enlisted Chief Priest Tupa'ia as his navigator.

Can we have a civil debate about the contentious issue of same sex marriage?

A Principal Correspondent for The Hindu newspaper explains the tensions between religious practice and modern life in India.

Catholic school principal Paul Tobias has made his own personal submission to the Royal Commission into sexual abuse about how his own church needs to respond better.

Fifteen years to the day when planes slammed into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, our world seems to polarise along religious and ethnic lines in ways we could not have imagined prior.

In the book "Armenia, Australia & the Great War," co-author Peter Stanley tells the stories of unsung Australians who helped survivors and orphans of the Armenian genocide.