Robert Mickens, editor of La Croix International writes about how a new approach to what service looks like, might help in the reform of a clericalist church. Reprinted with permission from La Croix International (8 November, 2019).
This is Part 1 of the seventh in the series of articles looking at the particular councils of the Catholic Church in Australia held between 1844 and 1937 by Peter J Wilkinson. It examines the background and factors leading to the Fourth Plenary Council of Australia & New Zealand held in Sydney in September […]
Eleanor Flynn, Gail Grossman Freyne, Agnes Dodds, Claire Renkin and Suzanne Philips who are all members of Women’s Wisdom in the Church (WWITCH) and Marilyn Hatton who is a member of Catholics Speak Out (CSO) and a partner of WWITCH, speak out about the closure of the Office for the Participation of Women in the […]
Bede Heather, retired bishop of Parramatta, writes about the state of ecumenism after the initial fervour in the post-Vatican II church and the importance of consultation with all Christians in the upcoming Plenary Council.
Martine Delaney is a long-time LGBTI equality advocate. She brought a formal complaint on Archbishop Porteous concerning his dissemination of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference pastoral letter for the same-sex marriage debate, Don’t Mess with Marriage. This complaint has been Exhibit One in the case for Religious Freedom’s Bill. In this article Delaney describes what […]
