Can the Church Still Claim a Moral Authority?

ABC
March 2, 2016

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/can-church-still-claim-a-moral-authority/7213530

What happens when people who’ve loved and trusted a church stop listening?

John Haldane is one of the world’s leading moral philosophers. He’s the author of many books including The Church and the World. He also served on the UK Victim Support Working Party on Compensation.

He’s a professor at St Andrew’s University in Scotland and Baylor University in Texas. He’s in Australia to deliver several public lectures beginning this month at the University of Notre Dame. What does John Haldane think has happened to the church’s moral authority?