This is a precis of a talk given by Greg Crafter to the Catholic Social Ministry Conference in Melbourne late last year on Lay Formation in the Australian Catholic Church – A personal reflection 1961-2019. Greg, a former SA Minister of Education, has had many positions of leadership within the church, more recently as a […]
John Scanlon writes about the place of Catholicism in Australian culture. Anti-Catholicism in Australian History
Noel Connolly SSC is a member of the Adult Formation Team with Catholic Mission Australia and is a member of the Facilitation Team for the Plenary Council 2020. Reprinted with permission from Columban Newsletter November 12, 2019.
Brendan Hoban, founder member of the Association of Catholic Priests (Ireland), looks at the decline in the small number and overworked state of the priesthood in Ireland and asks, “What are the bishops doing about this?” There are some similarities with Australia.
An extract from the talk by Chris Geraghty at the Sydney launch of the book Getting Back on Mission produced by Catholics for Renewal – their submission to the Plenary Council 2020. This article focuses on how clericalism works to subvert the hopes of reform.
