Category: Events
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Call to Be lecture series
Catalyst for Renewal is promoting a series of lectures that may interest members in the Sydney area. Sr Susan Connelly SOSJ Phd will be presenting on the topic: Cheeky or Violent? Digging deeper into Jesus Christ’s demands of human beings. The Risen Jesus is continually calling us to follow his way, to imitate him. Participants…
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Images of God
St Lucia Spirituality has announced the next of its Butterfly Series Reflections. The topic is Images of God: The changing images of God over time can lead us to wonder if we have been created in the image and likeness of God or if we have manoeuvred God into the image and likeness of ourselves.…
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Celebrating 50 years of Deadly
Catalyst for Renewal is offering a Spirituality on the Sofa online event for NAIDOC week: Peace for Indigenous Australians – Celebrating 50 Years of Deadly. See the embedded material below for details and registration.
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Webinar: Pope Leo and Just War Theory
When: Thursday, 11 June at 7 pmWhere: Zoom, details by registration Pope Leo XIV and Just War Theory in the Catholic Tradition How should Catholics think about war, peace, and moral responsibility in an age of global conflict and human suffering? This webinar will explore Pope Leo’s contribution to Catholic social thought and the development…
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Towards a Spirituality of Synodality
Concerned Lay Catholics (Canada) is offering an online event about the spirituality of synodality.
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New Windows for Religious Belief and Practice
The human species is in its infancy, not in maturity, as it deals with scientific understanding of its place in the universe and how it should (and must) develop. The windows used for centuries to understand our place in the universe and to shape religious faith have been upended and can no longer be relied…
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Exploring Faith and Reason
Dr. Peter Vardy outlined the development of Christian doctrine in the early centuries and the later centrality of St. Thomas Aquinas in establishing the link between Philosophy and Theology.This led on to the tension between science and faith in the modern world, including Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and alternative approaches culminating in the contrasting…
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The Need for a Theological Reformation
Church doctrines which are reliant on understandings of the universe that are longer believable are increasingly irrelevant. Only a reformed understanding of “God”, revelation, Jesus and liturgy can bring the changes so many people are longing to see. Renowned scholar and author, Michael Morwood, discussed how we can re-discover the teachings of Jesus by looking through a contemporary…
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ARC Member Bishop Tim Norton meets with members
ARC members participated in a stimulating and informative Zoom meeting with Bishop Tim Norton on 24 August 2023. Bishop Tim shared thoughts about Church reform and responded to questions from members. The session was recorded and the video can be accessed on YouTube using the button below.
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Conversation with Bishop Paul Bird
On the 6 July 2023 Bishop Paul Bird, Bishop of Ballarat, generously met with ARC members via Zoom. Members of ARC and others interested in Church reform posed a number of questions to the bishop. These were presented in the spirit of Synodality. The questions posed may be read here.