Keywords: Women In The Church
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 26 November 2012
30 Comments
Last Saturday the Rev. Ellinah Wamukoya was ordained as bishop of Swaziland. Most eyes in Australia however were on the Church of England's General Synod, which stumbled at the threshold of a change that would have embraced the consecration of women bishops. This may prove to be the less significant story.
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RELIGION
- Pat Power
- 14 November 2012
61 Comments
Fifty years ago, Pope John XXIII called Catholics to 'read the signs of the times' to bring the light of the Gospel on to every aspect of the life of the Church. Unless women and married people are made part of Church governance, there will continue to be a lack of balance and reality in its teaching, especially around sexuality.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 April 2012
65 Comments
Tensions between enterprising women religious and church authorities go back a long way. Last week's Vatican action against women religious in the US raises the same questions about respect and process as did the dismissal of Bishop Morris in Toowoomba. But its potential consequences are much larger.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 October 2011
25 Comments
Most churches are ageing and limited in their ability to engage with governments. As well as controvesies such as the Bill Morris dismissal and the handling of sexual abuse, the Australian Bishops visiting Rome this week will discuss ways to build on the strenghts of the Church in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Janet Scarfe
- 13 March 2011
18 Comments
Patricia Brennan put the ordination of women on the agenda of the Anglican Church and kept it there. Like Germaine Greer, she was tall, with an unmissable presence and rich voice. And, like Germaine, she was often called strident.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 30 September 2010
1 Comment
The Australian Anglican Church is divided on questions of women's ordination, sexuality, lay presidency and liturgical texts. But the recent assembly in Melbourne was relatively polite, although the question of the conservative, evangelical Sydney Diocese's relationship with the rest was never far from the surface.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 August 2010
48 Comments
The naming of participating in women's ordination as a crime
against faith os disconcerting. I recently attended the ordination of a
woman friend in another church. The celebration was prayerful and joyful,
and promised to be the prelude to a fruitful ministry by faithful and
committed candidates.
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RELIGION
The crisis facing the Church arising out of sexual abuse is arguably the most serious challenge it has faced since the Reformation. Issues such as authoritarianism, compulsory celibacy, the participation of women and the teaching on sexuality cannot be brushed aside.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 February 2010
19 Comments
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 23 October 2009
22 Comments
Liberal Roman Catholics have particular reason to be perturbed at the
influx of ex-Anglicans driven not by ecumenical zeal, but by
dogged adherence to positions on women's ordination or human sexuality which bespeak a broader conservatism.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 June 2009
13 Comments
Many women religious fear the Vatican visitation of female religious congregations will take a negative attitude to feminist aspirations and to the changes brought about by Vatican II. They can find historical grounds for this fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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