Letters

Brisbane

Franklin J. Wood

Contents - May 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics - Michael Gilchrist Two changes: Bishop Jarrett explains upcoming Mass changes - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett News: The Church Around the World Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response - Fr Andrew Wise Interview: Positive impact of Pope's decree on the Latin Mass - Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos Green sisters: New-look US religious: Al Gore's latest 'eco-justice' disciples - AD2000 REPORT Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion! - Michael Gilchrist FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice? - Lucy Tucker Magisterium: When is it infallible? - John Young Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne - Br Barry Coldrey Letters: Church architecture - Terry Parkhouse Letters: AIDS Prevention - Dr Arnold Jago Letters: Altar rails - John Murray Letters: Receiving Communion - Charles Haber Letters: Stations of the Cross - John D. Wightman Letters: Brisbane - Franklin J. Wood Letters: Cosmic Liturgy - Grahame Fallon Books: Irish journalist exposes 'Kathy's Story' book and movie as fabrications - Gary Brady (reviewer) Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson - Philip Trower (reviewer) Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 Books Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

My wife was hospitalised in Holy Spirit Hospital in northern Brisbane for nine days during the Christmas period. The hospital was originally established by two Orders of Catholic nuns, however during my frequent visits to see my hospitalised wife, no nuns or priests were ever visible.

A lay person calling herself a 'chaplain' visited my wife, although I recall an Instruction from the Vatican which said that hospital chaplains should be Catholic priests.

During my stay in Brisbane I attended Mass at the solidly Catholic parish of Corpus Christi, Nundah. On the other hand, the parish where my wife's relatives live seems to be run by (according to the Catholic Leader) the 'Liturgical Intelligentsia'.

From what I have seen of their influence in Brisbane, one of their main functions is to insult the intelligence of orthodox Catholics.

FRANKLIN J. WOOD
North Rockhampton, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 4 (May 2008), p. 14