Tag: Opinion
Dr Philippa Martyr: Amnesia about priesthood
To understood priesthood, we need to look at its origins
I used to be a great reader of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy series. His view...
Dr Philippa Martyr: Well done on the Instrumentum
Some highlights of the plenary council working document
The Instrumentum Laboris has been released to guide the next stage of the Plenary Council Process. I’ve...
Q&A with Fr Flader: Can Catholics take a COVID vaccine linked...
I am in my 70s and have some questions about Covid-19 vaccinations that perhaps you could answer for me. Can I take a vaccine...
George Weigel: Where the Church is in danger of schism
A forgotten role of bishops worldwide is now essential
As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first...
Larry Chapp: Reactions slide into disunity – Vatican II
Yes, Pope Francis sometimes says things that make us stop and wonder. But seeing this as some sort of ground for rejecting Vatican II...
George Weigel: A new Sunday better normal
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a sense of...
Philippa Martyr: Breaking down Plenary voices
I keep being told that over 220,000 people participated in the Plenary Council process. It’s impressive but let’s break down those figures.
The Final Report...
Benjamin Conolly: When virtue signalling is just good public relations
When I woke early to watch Arsenal play Manchester City in the English Premier League recently and saw ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the back...
Dr Philippa Martyr: Will someone please explain what’s going down in...
Just when you think this year couldn’t get any stranger, the German Church takes us to a whole new level of you-can’t-make-this-up.
Just this week,...
New integralists: uninformed politics that misrepresents the Church
such fiascos are important cautionary tales for any Catholic thinker who imagines that the moral and cultural crisis of the West is going to be resolved by the Catholic Church allying itself with state power
COVID-19’s classroom consequences
Given the consensus that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is over and Catholic, Independent and government schools around Australia are gradually reopening, it’s...
Monica Doumit: Greens: say one thing, do another
The movie, The American President, is one of my all-time favourites. In one scene, the fictional President Andrew Shepherd says that if you really...
