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Autumn 2018 Edition Quarterly magazine of the National Council of Priests of Australia The Swag theswag.org.au | Vol. 26 No. 1 | Autumn 2018 OF U GN NIT SI Y I N E S C T A R E U P M E N T O F REGULARS NCP CONTACTS From the NCP Chairman ......................................3 Editorial ....................................................................4 Reviews .............................................................42-47 Letters to the Editor ........................................48-50 News .................................................................50-51 Returned to God .............................................52-54 FEATURES Polarization in the Church and the crisis Chairman Secretary Treasurer of the Catholic mind .......................................... 6-7 Rev James Clarke Rev Mark Freeman Rev Wayne Bendotti Second Australian Provincial Council 150 Yarra St 44 Margaret St PO Box 166 18-25 April 1869 ..............................................7-13 Geelong VIC 3220 Launceston TAS 7250 Dardanu. W. 6236 Catholic women speak out on P: (03) 5222 1977 P: (03) 6331 4377 P: (08) 9728 1145 child sexual abuse................................................ 14 F: (03) 5229 0587 F: (03) 6334 1906 F: (08) 9728 0000 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Recommendations of the Royal Commission for the Catholic Church ...... 15-16 Melbourne’s new Archbishop ..................... 16-17 OMG how you’ve changed since I was a boy!........................................... 17-19 Failed system, failed leadership .................. 19-20 In search of an Australian priesthood ....... 20-21 The participation of women in the 2020 Plenary Council .................................. 22-23 Sacraments of Initiation for children Committee Committee Editor in the Australian Church ............................. 23-29 Rev Boni Buahendri SVD Rev Paddy Sykes Rev Peter Maher Ordination Anniversaries 2018.................. 25-28 100 Albion Rd 103 Fernleigh Rd Unit 30, 63-69 Bonar St Box Hill VIC 3128 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Arncliffe NSW 2205 Australia’s original sin ......................................... 29 P: (03) 9890 0065 P: (02) 6925 2111 P: 0439 460 779 Grassroots theology ............................................ 30 F: (03) 9899 1937 F: (02) 6925 6116 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Requiem for a pastor .................................... 31-33 Wanted – a Holy Thursday Church .......... 33-34 Clericalism and psychopathy ...................... 34-35 Confession after the Royal Commission .. 35-37 What is clericalism? ...................................... 37-39 Ecclesia Semper Reformanda Est ............... 40-41 The third wave ............................................... 41-42 Executive Officer Administrative Officer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Ms Sally Heath Mrs Christine Moore peoples are respectfully advised that this [email protected] [email protected] publication may contain the words, names, images and/or descriptions of people who have passed away. 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Our membership is in Australia, proudly published by NCP on loyal, however it is diminishing. Some of behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops our “brothers” are failing to renew their Conference as a service to the Church is a memberships most probably due to the much valued resource for parishes, schools busyness of parish life and perhaps and the wider Catholic community. The forgetfulness rather than neglect. executive of the NCP will soon be entering It is important that we maintain our into negotiations with representatives of the commitment to our organization. ACBC to renew our contract to continue to publish this complete compendium of Remember NCP exits for you and because the Catholic Church in Australia. (Did you of you. We need to encourage more priests realise that over 24,000 changes are made – locally born or newly arrived from to the directory data each year? Make sure overseas – to take up membership of the your parish has their order in for the new NCP. If you are fortunate enough to have 2018/2019 edition. Order form on inside a younger assistant priest, perhaps you back cover of this edition. Towards the could encourage or persuade him to end of 2017, Australia Post dramatically take up NCP membership. increased our Parcel Contract Rates and to new year is upon us! The school year This article has a “housekeeping” focus as defray this increase, the postage cost will be added to all orders. There will be no increase has begun and the bliss of January you may have gathered. Our Secretariat to the purchase price of the directory. has faded although I must say that continues to receive numerous calls with AI am still “basking and recovering” from No doubt many of us are dealing with the th complaints about subscriptions to The Tablet. my 60 birthday celebrations on the feast I have been informed by Sally Heath, our outcomes of the final report of the Royal of The Conversion of St Paul. The Australia Executive Officer that the difficulties lie Commission into Institutional Responses Day long weekend does come in handy! with the London subscriptions office being to Child Sexual Abuse. It is an issue which We have now begun our Lenten journey unable to process the subscriptions sent by will continue to haunt us. However, as I and no doubt many of you will be in the NCP in a timely and efficient manner. and others have stated previously, the NCP midst of parish preparations for Easter. The independent UK subscriptions stands in solidarity with the victims and we will work to ensure that they receive justice company used by The Tablet has changed This year will be an exciting year for the and equitable remuneration. NCP. Our biennial convention is being three times in the last 12 months and the held in Canberra, 10-14 September, loss of continuity has compounded these Once again brothers I exhort you to renew organized by the priests of the Diocese complaints. Sally and Chris are fully your 2018 membership before Easter and of Wagga Wagga and the Archdiocese cognizant of your issues and continue to to make a commitment to be part of the of Canberra & Goulburn. Please put the work with Ian Farrar, The Tablet’s Marketing Canberra Convention, Being Catholic date into your diaries and parish calendars. Manager, to resolve these problems. The in Australia Today – after the Royal Commission and before the Plenary Council, Further information on the convention delay in the arrival of the magazine and the (including the Registration Form) is in arrival of multiple copies simultaneously is 10 -14 September. this issue of The Swag. due to the “efficiency” of Australia Post! Yours in His Priesthood 2 STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRIESTS OF AUSTRALIA (NCP) Re: The Final Report from The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. he National Council of Priests of Australia applauds the work of the Royal Commission in its endeavours to eliminate the scourge of child sexual abuse which has been a blight on our society, our welfare and our religious institutions. The NCP welcomes the releaseT of the report and the efforts to implement the recommendations made by the Commission. As an organization representing many priests throughout Australia, we are angry and ashamed of the criminal activity engaged in by some of our fellow priests. As an organisation of priests we stand in solidarity with the victims of clergy sexual abuse. We also commit our organization to the task of ensuring that such actions will never be repeated. We support the mission of the Truth, Justice
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