Letters

Strange 'bedfellows'

J. Loring

Contents - Dec 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Another Christmas and New Year edition - Michael Gilchrist Novus Ordo: Vatican approves new Missal translation - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Pub life: Young adult Catholic ministry: ingredients for success - Br Barry Coldrey Bishops' Synod on Bible concludes: Pope working on Apostolic Exhortation - AD2000 Report The decline of British Catholicism: the future? - John Haldane Missions: Samoa's Don Bosco School gives students a 'second chance' - Br Michael Lynch SDB FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority? - Frank Mobbs 'Catholic literature': what does this mean? - David Birch Letters: Strange 'bedfellows' - J. Loring Letters: Pro-Life - Chris Hilder Letters: Evolution conference - Grahame Fallon Letters: The Leonine Prayers - Kevin McManus Books: The Life of Saint Joseph, by Maria Cecilia Baij, OSB - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger - Br Christian Moe, FSC Poetry: Genealogy - Bruce Dawe Books: The Scope of Philosophy, by John Young - John Whitty (reviewer) Schools: Blessed Mary MacKillop Colleges: 2009 enrolments (Jindera, Wagga Wagga) Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us - Pope Benedict XVI

In a recent interview published in The Australian newspaper, Fr Peter Kennedy of St Mary's, South Brisbane, (like retired auxiliary bishop of Sydney, Geoffrey Robinson, before him), as reported, dubiously insists that Church 'tradition' has mandated that the local ordinary (diocesan bishop) be elected by the people rather than appointed by Rome.

How strange then, that in regard to such issues as that sex should be restricted to a man and a woman in marriage, and that only men have ever been ordained to the priesthood, these same and other like-minded persons tell us the Church needs to be dragged into the 21st century and change - and that 2,000 years of verifiable Church tradition should apparently and rather conveniently be ignored.

J. LORING
Taigum, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 11 (December 2008 - January 2009), p. 14