“There are so-called ‘revival churches’ or Pentecostal communities that wage “guerrilla warfare” on spiritual terrain, in the sense that they bitterly fight the Catholic Church,” said Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou of Brazzaville.
The elevation of Dominic Perottet to the Premiership of New South Wales caused a flurry of commentary about his religious faith. In many parts of the media his politics and personality were framed by his Catholicism. I watched on with a degree of discomfort, and with a sense of possibility. Could some of the bigoted characterisations invite a richer conversation about the ideals and deeper narratives that enliven our public leaders? By Julian Butler