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In search of an Australian priesthood

Gary Stone Can the priesthood in Australia flourish without a majority indigenous clergy and where will they come from? Do we need married clergy? Gary Stone is a Brisbane diocesan married deacon and chaplain to the ex service community. He works with the Veterans Care Association which runs holistic rehabilitation programmes for veterans and their […]

Sacraments of Initiation for children in the Australian Church

Gerard Stoyles, Wollongong priest and researcher, explores the current climate of engagement of children and their parents in Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist and then offers an update on his research and the questions he will explore in the relationship between the allure of the Sacraments for children and their parents’ failure to find any home […]

Australia’s original sin

Fatima Measham, Eureka Street consulting editor, discusses the generational disempowerment of Indigenous Australians. Reprinted with permission from Eureka Street, 22 November 2017: www.eurekastreet.com.au

Grassroots theology

Fr Sean Wales, Provincial of the Redemptorists in South Africa, talks about possibilities for fashioning parishes in the Pope Francis era. First published in The Tablet: The International Catholic News Weekly, Nov 1, 2017. Reproduced with permission of the Publisher: www.thetablet.co.uk