Search Results: ordination
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 January 2010
18 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be. March 2009
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 December 2009
34 Comments
Christmas is a time for hospitality, and hospitality is central in the Christian tradition. You may not have thought this was so when, recently, the Anglican Church in Bendigo, Vic., was denied the use of a Catholic cathedral for the ordination of four female deacons.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 23 October 2009
22 Comments
Liberal Roman Catholics have particular reason to be perturbed at the
influx of ex-Anglicans driven not by ecumenical zeal, but by
dogged adherence to positions on women's ordination or human sexuality which bespeak a broader conservatism.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 22 October 2009
2 Comments
If the Apostolic Constitution is phrased in overly-confident 'Romanista' style it will communicate a bureaucratic
message and reinforce the suspicion that 'ecumenical
endeavour' means 'return to Rome', rather than the vision of every
Christian tradition being converted to unity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones
- 07 August 2009
1 Comment
The Australian Student Christian Movement was ahead of the mainstream church in its rejection of fundamentalism, its activism, support for ecumenism, and encouragement of lay and female leadership. Since the 1960s it has been a movement in exile.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 July 2009
22 Comments
Ignoring divisions is rarely the best way to address them. It may be better to name 2009 the year of priests, not the Year of the Priest, thus recognising the divergent approaches to priesthood within the Catholic Church.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 June 2009
13 Comments
Many women religious fear the Vatican visitation of female religious congregations will take a negative attitude to feminist aspirations and to the changes brought about by Vatican II. They can find historical grounds for this fear.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
4 Comments
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 March 2009
42 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 16 April 2008
7 Comments
In May, the Rev. Canon Kay Goldsworthy will become Australia's first female bishop. The role will entail pressures from those opposed to having a woman as bishop,
and those who have been waiting for this moment for decades.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 12 September 2007
1 Comment
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