About this season
Compass is an Australian weekly news-documentary program screened on ABC Television on Sunday nights. Presented by Geraldine Doogue, the program is devoted to providing information about faith, values, ethics, and religion from across the globe.
Episodes (14)
1. Pope Francis The Sinner (Part 1)
Aired 28 February 2016 • 30 min
The Pope who calls himself 'a sinner' is, certainly, a man of contradictions. But who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? How did the man who was loved and loathed by his fellow Jesuits back in Argentina become Pope?
2. Pope Francis The Sinner (Part 2)
Aired 6 March 2016 • 30 min
Examines Pope Francis' controversial rise to power from Jesuit to Cardinal and eventual accession to the papacy.
3. Spotlight On Church Leadership - A Moral Compass Special
Aired 13 March 2016 • 30 min
The broader implications of the water-cooler conversation: Cardinal Pell at the Royal Commission. With Catholic Church stewardship in the spotlight, what's the effect on church leadership & the impact on the community?
4. Melany's Remedy
Aired 20 March 2016 • 30 min
Melany was only 12 when her father died. As a young adult she realised she could no longer shut out the past. Meeting Helen Dunne - a professional shroud maker, was a turning point.
5. The Assyrians
Aired 27 March 2016 • 30 min
The Assyrians are a vibrant community who have made a great contribution to Australian life since the 1950's. Persecuted for centuries & a people without a country, their church has become the focus of their cultural identity.
6. Iceberg
Aired 3 April 2016 • 30 min
An ultra marathon runner is determined to raise awareness of domestic violence in rural communities by undertaking an 860km run through NSW.
7. The Moral Compass: Sanctuary
Aired 10 April 2016 • 30 min
Should Australian churches be offering sanctuary to asylum seekers? Geraldine Doogue is joined by Robert Manne, Anne Henderson, Rod Bower, Peter Kurti & Tim Costello for a Moral Compass special.
8. A Town Called Brzostek
Aired 17 April 2016 • 30 min
A small town in Poland becomes the centre of an initiative to improve vexed relations between Poles and Jews by reconsecrating an abandoned Jewish cemetery.
9. Paddy's War
Aired 24 April 2016 • 30 min
The bitter conscription debates that raged through the First World War divided Australia. The struggle was embodied by two men, Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix.
10. Salvado's Letters
Aired 1 May 2016 • 30 min
When Rosendo Salvado founded the tiny religious community of New Norcia in Western Australia in 1847 he also began an extraordinary correspondence with a dear friend in France.
11. The Moral Compass: A Good Exit Who Decides?
Aired 8 May 2016 • 30 min
This week on the Moral Compass "A Good Exit: Who Decides" The complexities of dying in Australia today. Geraldine Doogue is joined by five guests to grapple with this highly topical issue.
12. Prison Chaplains (Part 1)
Aired 15 May 2016 • 30 min
Part one goes inside Cessnock and John Moroney Correctional Centres in NSW where two very different chaplains help offenders meet the challenges of incarceration and find meaning in their lives.
13. Prison Chaplains (Part 2)
Aired 22 May 2016 • 30 min
Chaplain Suzie Johnson is an Evangelical Christian with a big heart who works at the Dillwynia Correctional Centre. Zoe and Lesley are inmates who have been profoundly affected by Suzie's support.
14. Prison Chaplains (Part 3)
Aired 29 May 2016 • 30 min
Chaplain Kim Miller visits James who will soon be released from Lithgow Correctional Centre. To help James adjust to life on the outside Kim offers him a place at Friendship House. But will James turn up?