Toowoomba, Australia, May 13, 2011 / 09:38 am (CNA).-
Australia’s bishops say they back Pope Benedict’s decision to remove renegade Bishop William Morris from his post in Toowoomba, in the Brisbane region of the country.
a film by Peter Hegedus
Community Film Screening
with guest Michael Leunig
Monday May 23, 7pm, 2011
Hawthorne Ciniplex, Hawthorn Road, Hawthorn Brisbane
A ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
What a fascinating thing is prayer! How comforting yet challenging at times. It can be private or communal. I think it is the one action which sets us apart from the rest of visible creation. I have never noticed our family pets gathering for prayer, although the birds sometimes sing like a choir. Those precious creatures reflect the beauty and wonder of creation in their own unreflective yet special way. But the deliberate act of praying, of acknowledging some power/ force/being beyond ourselves presupposes a belief in mystery; and we humans can be so uncomfortably wary of the unknown and the unknowable.
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A list of books that have been referred to by Terry Fitz-Patrick and Peter Kennedy.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/toowoomba-bishop-william-morris-quits-roman-catholic-church-church-after-row-with-vatican-over-ordination-of-women/story-e6freoof-1226047986307
Fr Peter Kennedy slams Vatican after Toowoomba Bishop William Morris quits Catholic Church after row over ordination of women.
OUSTED Catholic priest Peter Kennedy says the forced retirement of one of the church’s most senior men in Queensland is ‘appalling’.
Bishop William Morris announced his shock retirement at the weekend after falling out with the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI.
Issue 104 Newsletter of orthodox Catholics of Gippsland May 2011
Stop Press -
Bishop Morris “Retires”!
It may have been a slow process, but Rome has actually acted against a dissenting bishop here in little old Australia!
Peter Hegedus’ documentary is entitled “The Trouble with St Mary’s”; the Trouble with what I wish to speak about this weekend i.e. God- poses a Troubling Dilemma!
During Lent, our theme was one of Wilderness. Our own personal wilderness, when life is unbearable. The wilderness of the forests, the deserts and the seas.
