Australia’s original sin
Fatima Measham, Eureka Street consulting editor, discusses the generational disempowerment of Indigenous Australians. Reprinted with permission from Eureka Street, 22 November 2017: www.eurekastreet.com.au
Grassroots theology
Fr Sean Wales, Provincial of the Redemptorists in South Africa, talks about possibilities for fashioning parishes in the Pope Francis era. First published in The Tablet: The International Catholic News Weekly, Nov 1, 2017. Reproduced with permission of the Publisher: www.thetablet.co.uk
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.
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 in positions of power including priests and bishops.
