With the report recently of a Sri Lankan man in his mid-20s found dead in Villawood Detention Centre after getting refugee status, Bishop Saunders recent comments have even greater importance. He has branded Curtin detention centre a “chamber of horrors” where detainees were ever more depressed, and felt hopeless.
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Man of the poor, successor of Sin for Manila
Rocco Palmo at his blog, Whispers in the Loggia, notes: Home to 3 million Catholics in a country where four-fifths of its 88 million residents belong to the fold, one would have a hard time finding a larger or more influential Asian diocese than that of Manila.
Austria: the Church is dangerously close to schism
Austria infelix. It is still causing conflict between Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and dissidents. This wekend, the Archbishop of Vienna spoke out about the risk of a schism in the Austrian Catholic Church.
In our DNA. Bishop Morris did it the Australian way
Terry Fewtrell is an active Canberra Catholic and a strategic analyst. He looks at the case of Bishop Bill Morris, conspicuously absent from the recent Rome ad limina visit by the Australian bishops and argues that this is a moment crucial for the future of Catholicism in Australia.
Don’t scapegoat the hierarchy
Daniel Ang, Pastoral Planning Officer for the Diocese of Parramatta, explores the roles and responsibilities at all levels of church life in bringing about a truly collegial church.
