Letters

Religious attire

Tom King

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

Congratulations AD2000! At last a Catholic publication has been moved to print the opinion of the majority evaded by the trendier elements in the Church.

Fr James Lloyd's contribution (May AD2000), 'New religious communities flourishing in the United States', confronts the issues of priests and religious abandoning their distinctive attire in favour of civilian clothing.

The result has been, in Queensland at least, that they have become invisible, apart from those imposters utilised by advertisers or the organisers of demonstrations.

Opportunities for respect and practical advertising for vocations are lost when priests and religious can no longer be identified in public.

Can Fr Lloyd be enticed to migrate to Australia?

TOM KING
Bray Park, Qld

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