Tag: Faith

The Plenary's Framework for Motions document lays out the future of the Australian Church. What's in it? And how did we get here?

By Dr Kathleen Turner Social scientist Kathleen Turner discovered one of the most unique Christian churches in the world – almost two kilometres below ground...

One of the many positive fruits of the Royal Commission is an increased attentiveness to the poison of clericalism: the misuse of a service...

In wide-ranging critical feedback on the Plenary Council's draft proposals, the Archbishop of Hobart said the Church 'lacks confidence'

The Plenary Council organisers are currently considering feedback on "Towards the Second Assembly", the latest working document, which contains draft propositions to be voted...

My earliest memory of attending church with my family, is the excitement my siblings and I experienced heading into the week of Hosanna Sunday....

Suppose you asked me to what “unpaid domestic work” referred. I would assume it meant some shady arrangement between backpackers and their dodgy employer underpaying them for time worked.

A St Mary's Cathedral group is helping to nurture the faith of countless young Catholics through catechesis, Eucharistic adoration and fellowship.

For Catholics, Pentecostalist Christianity means something different for each generation. It first hit the Australian scene in a big way during the 1959 Billy Graham Bible Crusade, which filled Australia’s cricket stadiums with an estimated 3 million people, a third of the country’s population at the time.

Every year I’ve completed an anonymous national survey on diversity in my main workplace, in which I am asked to name which aspects of my identity cause the most problems.