Letters

Preaching

Kevin McManus

Contents - Sep 2007 - Buy a copy now Editorial: How to ensure AD2000's continuing impact - Michael Gilchrist Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne - Br Barry Coldrey Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church' - Frank Mobbs New Age: Centering Prayer and other spiritualities: are they Catholic? - Wanda Skowronska 'Thought that has been thought out' - John Haldane Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education - Eamonn Keane Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic' - Bishop Robert Finn Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes - Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ Letters: Vatican II - Peter D. Howard Letters: Infallible? - Francis Vrijmoed Letters: Dr Mobbs' response - Frank Mobbs Letters: Extraordinary? - Mark Szymczak Letters: Lapsed Catholics - Robert Garratt Letters: Preaching - Kevin McManus Letters: Religious attire - Tom King Letters: African prisoners - John Evans Poem: A poem for Mary's Birthday - Brian Joseph Mulligan Books: THE BEAUTY OF THY HOUSE, by Mark Alessio - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: FAITH AND CERTITUDE, by Thomas Dubay SM - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Events: Silent Retreat 9-12 November 2007 Books: Books available from AD2000 Reflection: An informed conscience: what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches - Bishop Luc Matthys

Dr Francis Beckwith (July AD2000) remarked on 'the lack of repository preaching in Catholic parishes' as compared to the evangelical Protestants.

Rome, aware of this deficiency, and the consequent impact on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, released the document Redemptionis Sacramentum in 2004 to give priests wider scope in 'preaching on the mysteries of the Faith and the norms of Christian life.'

This action was necessary because for 30 years the liturgists have firmly shackled priests to limpid gospel commentary. The result has been that few Catholics in Australia under 40 years of age have ever had the full Good News of Salvation as preached by Christ on His earthly mission.

There can be no effective evangelisation without a call to repentance. For the lack of it we must blame the liturgists, not the preachers.

KEVIN McMANUS
Ashfield, NSW

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 20 No 8 (September 2007), p. 15