Thursday, January 27, 2005

Right of the Faithful to Choose Priests, Bishops?

It is, according to groups such as this...At first, I thought I was reading something from one of our own country's groups of dissent. But this comes from the land 'down under':
Catholics should have a greater say in the appointment of their pastors and their Bishops, say Australian Reforming Catholics (ARC) and apologies given to gays, the divorced, Aboriginal people and all discriminated against by unjust Church structures.

The group, which met last September amid contraversy when Cardinal Pell banned them from Catholic land, issued a declaration arising from the conference, or 'campfire'.
The spokesperson for Australian Reforming Catholics, John Buggy, says that current Catholic governance stuctures should go the way of slavery and the subjagation of women. "The same thing needs to happen to absolute minority rule," he said.
More people to add to our prayer lists...

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