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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... issues above all have absorbed the internal energies of the institutional integrity ( requirements of obedience , orthodoxy and conformity ) ; the second involves the moral integrity of certain of its members ( the scandal of clerical ...
... issues above all have absorbed the internal energies of the institutional integrity ( requirements of obedience , orthodoxy and conformity ) ; the second involves the moral integrity of certain of its members ( the scandal of clerical ...
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... issues are linked , of course : as the Vatican sees it , the Church is under challenge from the surrounding secular culture , and most of its internal problems are traceable to the influence this culture wields over laity and clergy ...
... issues are linked , of course : as the Vatican sees it , the Church is under challenge from the surrounding secular culture , and most of its internal problems are traceable to the influence this culture wields over laity and clergy ...
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... issues such as birth control and women's ordination which have not been explained in a way ' consonant ' with their experience . The auxiliary bishop of Sydney , Bishop Geoffrey Robinson , was even blunter about what the Church must do ...
... issues such as birth control and women's ordination which have not been explained in a way ' consonant ' with their experience . The auxiliary bishop of Sydney , Bishop Geoffrey Robinson , was even blunter about what the Church must do ...
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... issues of Church order and gover- nance in the years ahead . Church rules on priestly celibacy , which Pope John Paul II insists must continue in spite of the serious shortage of priests in many parts of the world , came under challenge ...
... issues of Church order and gover- nance in the years ahead . Church rules on priestly celibacy , which Pope John Paul II insists must continue in spite of the serious shortage of priests in many parts of the world , came under challenge ...
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... issues , and its response to the scandal of clerical sexual abuse all stem from the outcome of this meeting . In turn , much of the continuing disillusionment and division within the Catholic community can be traced to the contradiction ...
... issues , and its response to the scandal of clerical sexual abuse all stem from the outcome of this meeting . In turn , much of the continuing disillusionment and division within the Catholic community can be traced to the contradiction ...
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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