Terry Duff is a solicitor and practises in central west NSW. He holds degrees in both law and theology. Married for 26 years, Terry has been a widower for four years. He looks at the issues surrounding the changes in the Marriage act and how they might be addressed. This article was submitted before the change to a postal vote.
Eric Hodgens, Melbourne pastor emeritus, writes on the way the influence of bishops in church governance militates against a collaborative inclusive church.
Kieran Tapsell is a retired civil lawyer and the author of Potiphar’s Wife: The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sexual Abuse and of a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Canon Law, A Systemic Factor in Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. He was also a member of the Canon Law Panel before the Australian Royal Commission 9 February, 2017. This is an edited version of the article that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter in the United States on 23 September 2017.
