Dr Harald Prinz This article was circulated by “Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform” on 7 June 2024. Dr Harald Prinz has been a Pastoral Worker in a Catholic parish in Austria since 2004 . Since 2010, he has been leading the parish due to the shortage of priests. He studied theology in Linz, Austria […]
Since the early days of the NCP, The Swag has been much more than just a newsletter of our organisation. It has been a platform for the clergy of Australia and their many friends to share information and views, as well as news, about the life of the Church in this country. It rightly holds […]
Emeritus Bishop Peter Ingham was the Bishop of Wollongong for seventeen years, retiring in November 2017. For a number of years he was afflicted with Pulmonary fibrosis, a terminal condition. As his condition worsened he chose to prepare the following article for The Swag. It was forwarded by Julia Cuming who in her role of […]
Bill Uren, SJ, AO, is a Scholar-in-residence at Newman College at the University of Melbourne. In this article (first published in Eureka Street on 24 April 2024, and reprinted here with permission of Eureka Street and the author) Bill reflects on the recent Vatican Declaration on Human Dignity which has occasioned much reaction around the […]
Dr Damian John Gleeson was the 2022 Australian Religious History Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales. Drawing on primary sources, his detailed examination of colonial New South Wales has identified many errors in the history of Catholic education, the Irish convict settlement, and early Catholic clergy, such as Fr Therry.
