Bishops endorse Australian Women Preach?
For the Australian Women Preach podcast team, it is a strange experience to see your work cited as a success story by the very institution that declined to support it.
Theology: experience seeking meaning, purpose and faith
It used to be said: theology is faith seeking understanding. Today, more and more people would put it differently: theology is experience seeking meaning, purpose and faith, writes Kevin Liston.
The gift of diversity is a powerful strength
Let us not throw stones at those we perceive as being different and therefore not acceptable, but examine our own motives and deeper understandings of Australian values, writes Clare Condon.
An evolving personal spirituality helps to form Catholic identity
Since the mid-1900s, there has been a significant shift among Catholics to thinking of faith and spirituality in personal terms. Questions of authority, conscience, community remain central, writes Kevin Liston.
Baptismal inequality exposed as ordination of women deacons denied
The Church continues to be awash and overwhelmed with maleness. And like the fish being the last to discover water, many Catholics fail to notice, writes Sister Patty Fawkner SGS.
Words that matter
I wish I knew the words that could achieve world peace. Each day, I write about consequential matters, but the words that could solve the problems in Gaza escape me.
May synodality and the revolution of love prevail
There are two stories at play in our world, and each is vying for our allegiance: one is death-dealing while the other is life-affirming, writes Good Samaritan Sister Patty Fawkner.
Is there a place on earth for honest, respectful dialogue?
At a time when lying has become accepted, even respectable, who among the world’s religious leaders will call us to a new place of honest dialogue, asks Clare Condon SGS.
What is to be done?
Indignities, atrocities and acts devaluing human life cannot be ignored or forgotten, but the roads to justice, hope and reconciliation are paved by beginning conversations of respect, writes John Haren.
Is there an ‘Order of Love’?
When US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that an ‘Order of Love’ was a Christian concept, he dismissed Jesus’ fundamental message in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
WATAC (Women and the Australian Church) looks to the future
WATAC began as a grassroots effort to address the role of women in the Australian Catholic Church and broader society. How will its inclusive vision be sustained, asks Andrea Dean.
Remembering the saints is a source of energy and hope
As the feast al All Saints approaches, I wish to develop a personal canon of female saints who will help me live faithfully in a violent world, writes Patty Fawkner.