This group have put together in one page many of the problems in the Church. (see the story in SMH )
You can read the text here and sign the petition if you agree.
I don’t think it will make any difference to the current leadership in Rome, but I think is important to sign it, if only to put some discord into the echo chamber of self congratulation in support of reaction in the Church.
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Does Catholics for Renewal have links to Catalysts for Renewal in Sydney and other organizations around Australia?
It is important to have a national link-up to give a national opinion when necessary (as now).
Shalom,
Gideon Goosen
Blue mountains.
G’day Gideon
I really have no idea of this group’s origins or links but the open letter hits a lot of targets. I can only suggest you contact them by e-mail: pj_johnstone@hotmail.com and ask.
I have fully read the Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Bishops of Australia prepared by Catholics for Renewal. The letter is constructive, respectful and positive. It has my full support. I have ‘signing’ the letter and I urge all Catholics to do the same to bring us back to a Christ-centred Church.
I for one will not be signing this petition. Just another loppy left wing liberal group trying to turn the Church into a quasi democarcy. Just look at what happens to churches where doctrine and discipline is determined by democratic vote. They go to hell in an hand basket. Take a look at the lunacy which is the Episcopal Church in the USA which is disintergarting at a rate of knots based on its passion for homosexual “rights” and consecration of gay bishops. It will not be long before the ECUSA makes homosexuality compulsory for its clergy!!
Cheers, John. I’m sure no-one expected you to sign the petition, but you might pray to be somewhat more tolerant and charitable of your brothers and sisters in the Church who have been failed by a heirachy interested in power games rather than pastoral issues across a whole range of issues in the Church. There have been a lot of different methods of Church government over the years from protocommunism in the early Jewish Christian community throught of the tyranny of Papal Christendom in the middle ages and they all have flaws. Who knows, perhaps the Holy Spirit has some surprises for us in the next centuries and if not democracy, at least a fearless collegial system where Bishops tell the Pope when he is barking up the wrong tree.. I’m not sure what the problems of the Episcopal church have to do with abuses of power in the Catholic Church, but I doubt they have much to learn from the Catholic Church. At least they are looking at the issue of gay clergy rather than pretending there are none.