A different way of thinking about liturgy and Church life The Bishops are advertising to call people back but there is a shortage of priests to minister to them if and when they come back. Society is changing in so many ways. The nature of how we will be Church in the future will be a lot different to what it is today whatever the Vatican might want. Fr Kevin Murphy suggests we ought to do a little thinking outside the square and look at "New Ways of Being Church". In this commentary he puts forward some suggestions… [more]
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24 Apr 2008
Rethinking our notions of parish structure Fr Kevin Murphy suggests the leaders in the Church need to be paying more attention to the breakdown in the geographical-based parish structure. Self-evidently it is no longer serving the needs of the people, nor of the institution… [more]
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14 Sep 2007
Why
people drop out Fr Kevin Murphy
has been catching up on Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book and shares these
reflections of his own as to why people are disenchanted and dropping
away from the Church. On the positive side he argues that small faith
communities offer hope in addressing the decline. [more]
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29 July 2007
A
new Spirituality for today's needs In this provocative commentary,
Fr Kevin Murphy asks if we can develop
a pristine Christian Spirituality in accord with the original spirituality
in the Church and which is sympathetic to todays needs? [more]
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