Bishop Power's expression for support for Bishop Robinson… Retired Australian Bishop, Geoffrey Robinson, has in the last week or so come under pressure from the Vatican, from an unsigned statement put out in the name of the Australian Bishops, and from at least one Cardinal in the United States, for his blunt book entitled "Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church — Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus". Bishop Patrick Power, who is presently on long service leave, yesterday sent Catholica this unsolicited statement of heartfelt support for Bishop Robinson which it is our great pleasure to publish. The sentiments expressed in this article very much accord with the overwhelming sense of support we detect being expressed for them in the disenchanted, largely non-vocal, though exceedingly large sectors of the lay Church we come into contact with in this nation. We salute both Bishop Robinson and Bishop Power for having the courage to exhibit the spiritual leadership of their people that they have shown. …Brian Coyne, Editor.[more]
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23 Nov 2007
Revitalising
the Church to meet the needs of the modern world…Following
a recent letter to many of the Australian Bishops in which I invited them
to submit any commentaries they might have from time to time that might
be of interest to the readership of Catholica
Australia, Bishop Pat Power
sent in a copy of this address he gave two weeks ago at Chevalier College,
Bowral. It is a powerful address effectively making a call for the entire
Church to get back "on message" to the vision of the Second
Vatican Council which was outlined in the Pastoral Constitution, Gaudium
et Spes. …Brian Coyne, Editor.[more]
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21 Aug 2007
Open
Letter to Petition Organisers... Bishop
Pat Power has written to the organisers of the Petition to
the Australian Catholic Bishops supporting the call for consideration
of the ordination of married men and also encouraging discussion of the
more contentious issue of the women's ordination. [more]
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29 Sep 2006
A
Time for Reform...Today we have pleasure in presenting
an article that Bishop Pat Power sent
in to us. It was actually written as on op-ed piece for the Melbourne
Age in 2002 but is particularly relevant at this time as Bishop
Power will be one of the keynote speakers at the forthcoming Australian
Reforming Catholics Annual Conference on 13-14 October. In this
article he articulates some of the areas in which he believes reform is
necessary and he seeks to outline some of the characteristics he sees
the institutional Church needing to embrace if it is to surmount the challenges
it is presently facing. [more]
The Mission of Christ, the Mission of the Church, the Mission of a Diocese Dominican bishop, Anthony Fisher, was installed as the Third Bishop of the Western diocese of urban Sydney, the Parramatta Diocese, on 4 March 2010. His homily delivered at the Installation Mass outlined his broad sweep of the Mission of Jesus Christ, the Mission of the Church, and what he sees as his personal Mission which he was seeking to invite the people of the Western suburbs of Sydney to embrace. Here at Catholica we think the homily offers rich food for reflection and discussion at a number of levels: firstly the evident thought put into the address, secondly in that the Western suburbs of Sydney in many respects are typical of the social challenges encountered in almost any major city of the Western world, and also because of questions that intersect with many of the discussions the community at Catholica engages in of the problems facing the Church today. Because of YouTube limitations the video is in three parts of 9m 54s, 5m 59s, 6m 12s (22m 5s total). [Catholica Editorial where we first drew attention to this homily] | [WATCH THE VIDEO]
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