by | Jun 10, 2016 | Australia
Peter Johnstone, President of Catholics for Renewal Inc, outlines a proposal for selecting the nine new bishops Australia will need soon as outlined in the article by Peter Wilkinson This year, nine new Australian diocesan bishops could be appointed – NINE! –...
by | Jun 8, 2016 | Australia
by Paul Collins I was talking recently about the Synod with a very experienced parish priest. He said that if the bishops thought we were all waiting with bated breath for their decision regarding the divorced remarried receiving Communion, then they really do live in...
by | Apr 2, 2016 | Australia
by George Rippon Article originally published in Catholica As I sit down to write I am often not quite sure where I will end up. This time I know. Having seen most of my recommendations ignored over the years I will in faith and hope give them another run, with some...
by | Mar 26, 2016 | Australia
I think that hope is more significant than faith and love. Hope is rooted in imagination, in the ability to grasp other possibilities, to conceive of other options. It helps us escape a monochrome, paranoid world. While we all have imagination, we need the artist to...
by | Mar 9, 2016 | Australia
by David Timbs Read paper HERE Abstract: It is becoming more and more obvious that one of the most significant obstacles to the systemic reform of the culture and legal system of the Catholic Church is clericalism. The leadership of the Church has become increasingly...
by | Feb 29, 2016 | Australia
Reprinted with permission from The Swag, Autumn 2016 Underlying the proceedings at the 2nd Vatican Council were two major principles: ressourcement, calling for a return to the sources, and aggiornamento, calling for a genuine update of the Church to increase its...
