Letters

Brisbane Synod (letter)

Neville Davis

Contents - Feb 2003 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Higher costs force up the price of 'AD2000' - Peter Westmore Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity - Fr Julian Porteous Confronting today's persecution of the Catholic Church - Bishop Luc Matthys News: The Church Around the World - AD2000 Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne - Anthony Cappello John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report - AD2000 Report Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ - Msgr Peter J. Elliott 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One) - Fr Peter Joseph Catholic learning in the liberal arts - Karl Schmude Brisbane Thomas More Centre: putting faith into action - Sidney Rofe Perth Rosary Tape authors' successful US visit - Colleen McGuiness-Howard Letters: Thomas Groome (letter) - Bishop Kevin Manning Letters: Eamonn Keane responds (letter) Letters: Teaching the truth (letter) - Dennis MacDonald Letters: Infallible teaching (letter) - George Simpson Letters: Threat to schools (letter) - Richard Congram Letters: Women's Commission (letter) - June See Letters: Media distortions (letter) - Nell & Rinion Aslikar Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter) - Neville Davis Letters: Catholic medical practice (letter) - Dr Tim Coyle Books: How To Win The Culture War, by Peter Kreeft - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Books: The Catholic School In An Age Of Dissent, by Leonard A. Kennedy CSB - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: New year reading from AD Books Reflection: Lectio Divina: a way to deepen our prayer life and spirituality - Fr Andrew Wise

I refer briefly to I.F. Nolan's letter (November AD2000) concerning the Brisbane Synod. I think that Archbishop Bathersby has already headed off the dissident fringe, tactfully and adroitly, by pointing out publicly that some of the submissions received are beyond the scope of the local church.

May I also refer to Michael Starr's letter (same issue). I agree heartily with the first part regarding "Christian and Catholic" but respond differently to the second. Rather too many years ago I was baptised into the "Holy Roman Catholic Church". Now, with bishops ignoring the Statement of Conclusions they signed, and priests reportedly not objecting to the idea of an independent Australian Church, I am staying "Roman". For me it is "Rome or the Bush".

NEVILLE DAVIS
Cleveland Point, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 16 No 1 (February 2003), p. 16