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Embracing the incertitudes and mystery of life with confidence…
Dear Friends,
Today's editorial is partly sparked by the events currently unfolding in the Archdiocese of Brisbane concerning the parish community at St Mary's South Brisbane. (If you are not "up wiht the news" of what is happening at St Mary's, South Brisbane, then check out the news item George Haydock contributed to our forum at: www.catholica.com.au/forum/forum_entry.php?id=15932.) The editorial ends by addressing that particular situation. Before that though the editorial seeks to raise some wider issues concerning the role of our institution and its leaders. Are our churches primarily a means of replacing the intrinsic uncertainties of life with man-made dogmas, certitudes and fundamentalism? Or are they primarily a means of providing comfort and companionship as we, the community at large, negotiate the uncertainties of life? <more>
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