A Long Way from Rome: Why the Australian Catholic Church is in CrisisChris McGillion Allen & Unwin, 2003 - 211 Seiten Many Catholics today described themselves as 'lapsed'. Despite a new hunger for meaning and community, it is clear that over the last decade the Australian Catholic Church has become a marginal influence on society. Repeated accusations of child sexual abuse by priests is taken as a sign of moral bankruptcy, the ongoing refusal to include women in more active roles has left many disenchanted, and attendance at Mass continues to decline. Leading commentators including Morag Fraser, Paul Collins and Damian Grace explore the crisis at the heart of Australian Catholicism. They offer a confronting analysis of the direction for the Church set by Rome, and the way in which this is stifling local initiative and alienating large numbers of Catholics from the institutional life of the Church. A Long Way from Home argues that the problem goes beyond the headlines of sexual abuse and internal dissent to issues of Vatican intervention, the abuse of authority, the decline of ritual, the development of a Catholic cultural ghetto, and the loss of a distinctive Catholic imagination. |
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Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. officials , to identify with the hopes and frustrations of ordinary Catholics back home , and to explore in a frank manner how their Church might respond to its changing ...
Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. officials , to identify with the hopes and frustrations of ordinary Catholics back home , and to explore in a frank manner how their Church might respond to its changing ...
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Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. Bible , even though the Vatican had outlawed its use in the United States in 1994. Some bishops even questioned publicly whether the vow of priestly celibacy was still ...
Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. Bible , even though the Vatican had outlawed its use in the United States in 1994. Some bishops even questioned publicly whether the vow of priestly celibacy was still ...
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Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. those brothers and sisters who worked in secular occupations and lived outside religious houses were urged to return to communal styles of living and traditional forms of ...
Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. those brothers and sisters who worked in secular occupations and lived outside religious houses were urged to return to communal styles of living and traditional forms of ...
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Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. A large number of clergy were also dismayed by the Statement . Following a meeting in Sydney in February 1999 , 75 priests and religious brothers and sisters signed a ...
Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. A large number of clergy were also dismayed by the Statement . Following a meeting in Sydney in February 1999 , 75 priests and religious brothers and sisters signed a ...
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Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. expressed their anger at what they saw as the impertinence of Vatican officials pretending to know what was best for Australian Catholics . At the extremes , conservative ...
Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis Chris McGillion. expressed their anger at what they saw as the impertinence of Vatican officials pretending to know what was best for Australian Catholics . At the extremes , conservative ...
Inhalt
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Why people dont listen to the Pope | 37 |
The silenced majority | 65 |
The lost art of Catholic ritual | 88 |
Popular cultures new high priests | 113 |
Has the Church a future? The generational divide | 145 |
Imagination abandoned | 171 |
Afterword | 194 |
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