At the risk of doing a Dame Nellie Melba, I write my final column as Chairman of the NCP for The Swag. (I prematurely thought the last edition was my finale!) Reflecting back over my time in this position I have been buoyed by the encouragement of priests across Australia.
Editorial
We will be reading this 2011 Summer Swag during Advent – a ‘Season’ in the language of the Church that is perhaps undervalued. I want to share a few thoughts about waiting, listening, pausing and being open – all of which are central to Advent.
Editorial
The major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York last summer was by a Korean artist, Lee Ufan. The exhibition was called “Marking Infinity”. His paintings and sculptures invite the viewer to explore an encounter with “what is” in the world. His life work has developed around carefully placed objects and markings on a canvas to involve the viewer in a relationship between the viewer and the world.
Our new Chairman – Eugene McKinnon
Recently, I was at a priests’ golf tournament in the Sale Diocese. It reminded me, that at a similar event a few years back, while walking on one of the fairways, I was invited to be a part of the NCP executive. Over the past five years it has been my pleasure to work with the executive. Together with Sally and [...]
Letter to the Editor
I was distressed to read that The Record has associated Bishop Bill Morris with the ugly word “heresy”, especially coming from a publication which I have known and respected for many years. In what sense could he be demoted to such a level?
Letter to the Editor
A very good and trusted friend of mine is being unjustifiably publicly pilloried and defamed by an opportunistic politician, a sensationalist press and a bishop. My friend is the Catholic Parish Priest of Brighton, SA. This unlikely trio clearly has a defined and individually private agenda. Each agenda is based on an assertion of guilt. The assertion is totally false [...]
Letter to the Editor
When I was reflecting on last Sundays gospel (31st Sun in Ord Time) I found myself changing some words in light of the Australian Bishops Ad Limina visit to Rome.
Letter to the Editor
A few thoughts regarding the differences between Bishop Morris and the Holy See. I think we must accept the fact that Bishop Morris and those that support him are in good faith. Any priest today could do very well for himself in civil life if he felt his vocation to be there. The priests of the Toowoomba diocese are very able men.
Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Sydney ordains deacons
2011 has produced the first graduates of the Sydney Neocatechumenal Way Seminary. After Simon Apablaza and Luca Infantino were ordained priests in May, Allan Casquejo, Norvin Dias, Pasquale Pizzoferro and Pierluigi Passoni were ordained deacons on November 24 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Bishops’ Ad Limina visit
In response to the promise of the Australian bishops to bring the issue of Bishop Morris’ termination of appointment as Bishop of Toowoomba to their visit to Rome last month, they produced a statement noting multiple meetings with Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
