Our readings today remind us that ideally that marriage in our tradition is a permanent union of equals. But in reality we have to deal firstly and compassionately with human failure and societal change. Our increased understanding of human psychology and interpersonal relationships tells us that some marriages perhaps never were and some just came to their natural end. . . . .
PARISH
The Role of the Faithful in a post-Royal Commission Church in Australia
Most Rev Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta – ” The Church as understood and articulated by the Second Vatican Council sees itself as a pilgrim People of God, incarnate in the world. It is a new paradigm – one that is based on mutuality not exclusion, love not fear, service not clericalism, engagement with the world not flight from or hostility against it, incarnate grace not dualism. It is the Church going out of itself as opposed to closing in on itself.”
Bulletin 30 Sept 2018
After my two and a half months away on sabbatical, it’s so good to be home!
A warm welcome, sunny skies, familiar faces and a known place to lay my head; I’m
back among family and friends. I had a great time in the Holy Land but there’s no place
like home. I’m very conscious of ‘home’ and all that it means this weekend on Social Justice
Sunday as our Australian bishops remind us of the scourge of homelessness in their
Statement ‘A Place to Call Home: Making a Home for Everyone in our Land.’ Fr Chris
Bulletin 23 Sept 2018
Bulletin Sept 23 2018
Putting aside all our ideas of self importance
Those guilty of abuse, of harassment or cover up must be brought to justice. At the same time we are invited patiently to engage in honest listening and discernment. Perhaps this might start with a more responsible use of social media. . . . “We must be imaginative enough to make conflict “a link in the chain of a new process” a process of constant personal and institutional conversion- the only thing that makes us authentic followers of Jesus.”
The Catholic hierarchy’s problem with sex
This is a three-part series exploring the Catholic hierarchy’s problem with sex . . . . It’s not just the crisis of sexual abuse and cover up, which is ghastly enough. If we think back over the span of time since Vatican II, almost every divisive controversy within the Catholic Church has been about sex.
Bulletin 16 Sept 2018
Bulletin 16 Sept 2018
Conversations Catholics need to have
Fr Timothy is known for his views on things like homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, and the authority of women in the Catholic Church – areas in which he has pushed for open conversation and an embrace of difference – something which has earned him the description of being controversial.
Bulletin 9th Sept 2018
Bulletin 9th September 2018
Bulletin 2nd Sept 2018
2nd September 2018