Requiem for a pastor
Kevin James Flanagan, dearly loved priest of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga, was buried on 28 December, 2017. This is the homily preached at his funeral by Fr Bernard Moylan who reflects on the life of a pastor of people.
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Wanted – a Holy Thursday Church
Peter Day, Canberra priest, invites us to hear the cry to be a servant church and resist clericalism.
Clericalism and psychopathy
Kevin Johnson is an eighty year old retired priest from Mackay, Queensland. He spent very many years in the study and part-time practice of medicine, psychiatry and psychology and continues his study in those fields. In this article he discusses the brain science causing people to be psychopaths. He looks at the danger of psychopaths […]
Confession after the Royal Commission
Peter Matheson Can the Royal Commission be a catalyst for genuine renewal of the Sacrament of Reconciliation? Peter Matheson, parish priest of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Cheltenham, Victoria, argues it can, if we are listening and choose to act.
What is clericalism?
Frank O’Dea SSS, charts the history of clericalism over the centuries from a time when there was no such thing, through the times of being connected to worldly power, through to the present.
