Discussion Paper

Commissioned by Catholic Social Services Victoria and the Melbourne Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace in collaboration with the Victorian Council of Churches, the paper scrutinises the assumption that nuclear power might help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hence combat dangerous climate change, and whether it is a clean and safe for of energy generation. It argues that nuclear power is no solution to climate change and remains an expensive, dangerous form of energy generation.

Link to report

Vacancies in student housing in Brunswick.

The Brunswick Uniting Church Student Housing Program offers rooms for up to eight country students in Brunswick in two houses which are close to the city and handy for several tertiary institutions.  Brunswick UC offers a supportive community for the residents, who in turn need to be willing to participate in the life in the congregation.  For more information contact Richard Arnold on (03) 9380 4810.

Thomas Merton on Resisting Evil

Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.