Thea Ormerod, President, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, reflects on the funeral for coal liturgy held in March outside the office of Labor Minister, Chris Bowen, to highlight the need to bury coal as it is a major source of carbon emissions destroying our planet.
Paul Collins has worked for more than fifty years for renewal in Catholicism, both as a priest and layperson. Here he discusses the upcoming ad limina visit by the Australian bishops to meet with Pope Francis and Vatican officials. What will they have to report?
John Scanlon offers an understanding of the kind of evil that results in abuse and concealment of abuse and mass murder such as we have seen recently in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Eric Hodgens, Melbourne Catholic priest, explores how a monarchical organization powered by ideology, with promotion by patronage, results in bad governance.
Mike Yates, retired school teacher from North Rocks parish, explores how if the Church doesn’t get this right then God may well side-step the Church and use the rest of the community (including people who call themselves atheists) to bring about the changes in society that the Church seems currently incapable of achieving because it […]
