Dear all,

Catholica readers will be interested in The Religion Report on ABC Radio National this week. The entire program basically focuses on the events of the past week triggered by Cardinal Pell's views which have caused much discussion in the Parliament of NSW and in the mainstream media.

The Religion Report website sums up the program with these words:

Watershed week for church/state relations in in Australia
Cardinals threatening Catholic politicians; Archbishops being reported to Parliamentary privileges committees; priests writing letters to editors of newspapers offering alternative communion arrangements. Has Cardinal Pell taken us back to the belligerent days of B.A.Santamaria?

	From L: Stephen Crittenden, Daniel Donovan, George Pell

Of particular interest to Catholica readers is the interview Stephen Crittenden has with Fr Daniel Donovan on both the events of the past week and on his criticisms, first aired through Catholica, of the Draft Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Sydney. The first part of the program contains a provocative interview with John Challis, former Dominican theologian and a former head of the ABC Science Unit.

You can listen to the program as a podcast or read the transcript on the ABC's website at: www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/default.htm

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