NaN/100 votes#1 - A Chinese New Year
Season 24 Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2010
As Australia welcomes in the Chinese New Year, Compass explores what it all means. As well as marking the beginning of the lunar year, it’s a time when the Chinese community pays respect to their elders, and when good fortune is abundant.
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#2 - Kingdom Airwaves
Season 24 Episode 2 - Aired 2/14/2010
Evelyn Lowah, a respected Torres Strait Islander and born-again Christian, is a popular radio presenter in Cairns in far north Queensland. She and her cousin Thomas Seveka play Gospel music and talk with local people about what’s going on in their community.
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#3 - The Almighty Dollar
Season 24 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/2010
As the world grapples with the Global Financial Crisis, Compass asks: Should our lives be ruled by the almighty dollar? In the 21st century money has become the measure of all things, but what does money really mean to us?
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#4 - For the Bible Tells Me So
Season 24 Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/2010
A powerful film that explores how five American Christian families have handled having a gay child. Among them are the parents of the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop in the US, Gene Robinson.
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#5 - Christianity: A History - Jesus the Jew
Season 24 Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/2010
Is Judaism Christianity's guilty secret? Leading British writer Howard Jacobson, himself a Jew, examines the origins and consequences of Christian belief.
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#6 - Christianity: A History - Rome
Season 24 Episode 6 - Aired 3/14/2010
British journalist, former Conservative Party politician and lapsed Catholic Michael Portillo investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine. He was the first Christian Roman emperor and he transformed Christianity.
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#7 - Christianity: A History - Dark Ages
Season 24 Episode 7 - Aired 3/21/2010
British theologian Dr Robert Beckford explores how warring pagan tribes in Britain became one nation under a single religion - Christianity. In this extraordinary story, which begins with the fall of the Roman Empire 400 years after the birth of Jesus, he charts the precarious survival of Christianity in the Celtic West and Ireland.
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#8 - Christianity: A History - Crusades
Season 24 Episode 8 - Aired 3/28/2010
Acclaimed war correspondent Rageh Omaar examines the effect the 900 year old Crusades have had on the world today. In the West, he argues, the Crusades are a chapter of Christian history that has little impact on our everyday lives, but in the Middle East many believe that the Crusades are happening again.
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#9 - Camino Salvado
Season 24 Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/2010
There’s a modern day revival in the age-old habit of pilgrimage, and parishioners from St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco, Perth have created their own, Camino Salvado. Compass joins the inaugural pilgrimage for a six day walk from Perth to the Benedictine Monastery at New Norcia.
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#10 - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ
Season 24 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/2010
The extraordinary story of one of world’s great, lost masterpieces: Caravaggio’s "The Taking of Christ". This film traces the painting's journey from its birth in Rome in 1602 to its amazing re-discovery in 1990.
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#11 - Commando Chaplains
Season 24 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/2010
The last place you might expect to find a chaplain is dodging bullets in Afghanistan. This film follows two British Royal Marine chaplains as they travel around 'their parish' bringing faith to the frontline.
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#12 - The Return of the Exorcists
Season 24 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2010
Examines the covert Catholic ritual of exorcism in Italy where half a million people are turning to exorcists for help each year. Pope Benedict XVI recently hailed the importance of the rite and for the first time the Vatican is backing a course to prepare a new generation of exorcists.
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#13 - Remembering Timor
Season 24 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2010
This Anzac special follows Sister Susan Connelly’s campaign to have East Timor’s unique wartime contribution recognised, with a ‘Companion of the Order of Australia’. During WW2 the Timorese risked their lives to help the Australian Commandos known as “Sparrow Force”.
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#14 - Alone in a Crowded Room
Season 24 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2010
What if you were highly intelligent, but remained trapped within a disorder that made others see you as inarticulate, odd or disabled? This film explores the line between ability and disability by following four Australian adults who are autistic.
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#15 - The Trials of Galileo
Season 24 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2010
Nearly 400 years after being tried by the Roman Catholic Inquisition, Galileo again faces charges of heresy. Leading scientists, scholars, barristers, politicians and churchmen take part in a unique performance event staged by the University of NSW and filmed by Compass.
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#16 - Wrong Side of the Bus
Season 24 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2010
Melbourne psychiatrist Sidney Bloch returns to South Africa, the country of his birth, with his teenage son. Sid has been plagued by guilt for “not doing enough” when segregation was introduced during the apartheid era more than 40 years ago.
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#17 - Challenge, Change, Faith: Catholic Australia and the Second Vatican Council
Season 24 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/2010
This program explores the Catholic Church in Australia during one of the most dynamic periods in its recent history, the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Vatican II challenged elements of Catholicism unquestioned since the 16th century.
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#18 - The Mission: Part 1 - Beginnings
Season 24 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear? In episode 1, Beginnings, Fathers Christopher, Felix and Kene arrive in Tasmania on its coldest winter’s day. It’s a whirlwind of ‘enculturation’ Tassie style as they encounter Tasmanian Devils, colonial villages and snowfields. There’s the even colder reality of elderly congregations in largely empty churches and an aging local priesthood. Fr Kene goes to Launceston where the harsh reality and loneliness of being an African in Australia starts to bite. Fr Felix, sent to Tasmania’s isolated West Coast, struggles with a church culture vastly different to his own. Fr Christopher stays in Hobart’s Cathedral Parish, where it’s clear his mentor doesn’t believe importing priests is the solution to Tasmania’s clerical crisis.
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#19 - The Mission: Part 2 - Reaching Out
Season 24 Episode 19 - Aired 6/6/2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear? In episode 2 – Reaching Out, the three young Nigerian priests are struggling with Australian life, homesickness, and confronting the reality of a Church in decline. There are new housemates to contend with and not everyone is getting along, so life isn’t getting any easier. As a rural church closes its doors after more than 100 years it’s a profound shock for the new missionaries, and triggers an unexpected revelation from one.
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#20 - The Mission: Part 3 - Worlds Apart
Season 24 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear? In episode 3 – Worlds Apart, the three Nigerian priests, now six months into their mission, are part of a Catholic community looking for solutions to churches closing down, congregations dying out and no priestly vocations. Questions arise as they discover that Aussie celebrations for Christmas are festive, and not necessarily reverential. Even Fr Kene’s unshakeable faith is rocked by the sudden numbers of ‘once a year Catholics’. Will the cultural divide prove too hard to cross as the priests go deeper into their mission in a distant land?
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#21 - The Mission: Part 4 - Out There
Season 24 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear? In episode 4 – Out There, the three Nigerian Fathers celebrate the first anniversary of their roller coaster ride of faith, dedication and culture shock. For the Tassie priests working with them and the communities they are reaching out to, there are inspiring surprises and even dangerous encounters in store. As they all come together to celebrate the Nigerian priests’ first year in Australia, it is clear the experience is difference for each of them. While for their mentor priests, the experiment has produced more questions than answers.
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#22 - Michael Kirby
Season 24 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/2010
Filmed before, during and after his final days on the High Court of Australia this documentary explores the personal, moral and spiritual convictions of Michael Kirby – one of the country’s greatest legal minds. It charts his formative years, his Christian faith and his 40 year relationship with his partner Johan van Vloten.
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#23 - The Team That Never Played
Season 24 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/2010
In the final week of the World Cup, Compass presents the story of the team that never played. In the 1970s South African soccer players were among the best in the world, but because they supported the international sporting bans against the apartheid regime, these unsung masters never had the chance to play on the world stage.
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#24 - Christianity: A History - Reformation
Season 24 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/2010
A provocative series examining the history and impact of Christianity through the personal views of leading British figures. In this episode former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe explores the Reformation.
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#25 - Christianity: A History - Dark Continents
Season 24 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/2010
This programme reveals how Christianity became the world's largest religion despite, rather than because of, Western missionary zeal. British writer and Christian Kwame Kwei Armah begins his journey in Latin America to understand why Christianity is so successful there.
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The Best Episodes of Compass Season 24
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Season 24 Ratings Summary
"A Chinese New Year" is the best rated episode of "Compass" season 24. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/7/2010. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Kingdom Airwaves".