A reflection on the challenges of belonging to Church today…Dr Graham English has been a Catholic teacher for 45 years. Now lecturing RE teachers at the Australian Catholic University he reflects on the challenges that young people face today in having a sense of "belonging" to the Catholic Church. [more]
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17 Jul 2008
The Church in Australia – far from static…Dr Andrew Kania's overview of Catholicism in Australia published in The Tablet last week has generated much comment in response. There have been other articles in the media, written for audiences in other countries, seeking to give a brief over view of the Church in Australia. Dr Graham English felt that Dr Kania offered too static view of the Church in this country and seeks in this commentary to offer an alternative view to the one presented by Dr Kania. [more]
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04 Jul 2008
"Freedom, ideology and the Catholic Church" Amidst the gathering frenzy by some leaders, and some lay groups, within the Catholic Church to turn back the clock and re-establish a pre-Vatican II mindset on the institution, here is a timely and rigorously argued commentary by Dr Graham English. The issue he puts under the microscope is our changing understanding of the meaning of "religious freedom". He argues that the Second Vatican Council brought about far reaching changes in how we ought to understand and interpret this term. His commentary is effectively a strong argument as to why we need to collectively defend this advance in thinking that the Council introduced. [more]
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Catholic
Religious Education in Australia why and how it has changed...
Catholic Education in Australia faced a major crisis in the 1960s to the
point where the bishops of the time seriously considered having to close
the entire system down because they simply did not have the resources
to sustain it any longer. The new system that was established in the 1970s,
thanks largely to government funding, is fundamentally different to the
system of religious education that had existed in the past. In today's
commentary, Dr Graham English, Senior
Lecturer in Religious Education at ACU National, explores some of the
other social and cultural factors that make Catholic Religious Education today so
much different to what it was in the past. [more]
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