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 actually happened in response to the mention of this case in The Swag Summer 2019 News.
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 member of the Truth & Justice Commission.
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.
