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Philippa Martyr: Time isn’t ordinary if you spend it with God

It’s now our first bit of Ordinary Time—the little patch of green between the joy of Christmas (ahh) and the joy of Lent (yikes).

Philippa Martyr: Do Catholic youth really want to change the church?

I’m continuing to explore a group of around 700 young Australian Catholics who go to Mass. They are divided into two groups – the weekly massgoers, or “weeklies”, and the less regular massgoers, or “irregulars.”

Two classes: professional Catholic activists and ordinary Catholic women

It looks like the Plenary Council motions on women in the Church all failed to make the required two-thirds majority to pass on Tuesday...

Philippa Martyr: All in the name of governance

The Plenary Council delegates and writers have shown a touching faith in the power of corporate governance to save the Church in Australia. They...

Philippa Martyr: Projecting sin onto others is not what conversion is

So how else can we be different from the world? How can we bring it salt and light, instead of blending into the secular...

Plenary voices: Philippa Martyr

My theologian chum Dr Larry Chapp has recently been blogging on Vatican II. What he’s saying rings bells for the Plenary Council. Larry points out...

Let’s celebrate the Mass the way Vatican II wanted

We owe it to the Novus Ordo to celebrate it the way Vatican II really intended. Dominus vobiscum!

Philippa Martyr: What only priests can do

The laity can do pretty much any job in the Church. But only presbyters can make Jesus really present I wanted to follow up on...

Philippa Martyr: Putting trust in a limited oil supply can’t ever...

So far, the Instrumentum Laboris has shown us what the Church in Australia is like now, and an image of what it could be....

Philippa Martyr: Breaking down Plenary voices

I keep being told that over 220,000 people participated in the Plenary Council process. It’s impressive but let’s break down those figures. The Final Report...

Philippa Martyr: Women, equality and the Church

The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God My last piece on women deacons caused...

Philippa Martyr: a bishop who has stood out

You’re not likely to hear that in your average sacramental preparation class, and that’s a crying shame.
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