Letters

'Creating Our Future' (letter)

Mrs Jeanette Joseph

Contents - Feb 2001 - Buy a copy now Editorial: New religion texts for Melbourne schools - Michael Gilchrist Tasmanian priest to be Lismore's new bishop - AD2000 Report Bishop Wilson of Wollongong to be the future Archbishop of Adelaide - AD2000 Report News: The Church Around the World New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools - Michael Gilchrist The finest RE texts produced to date - Anthony Cappello Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact? - Michael Gilchrist Religious persecution continues in Vietnam - AD2000 Report The "priest shortage": natural or artificial? - Larry A. Carstens Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga - Paul Sheehan A former heroin addict's personal testimony Archbishop Pell opens drug rehabilitation centre - Dr Joseph Santamaria Letters: Feminist book (letter) Letters: Church in China (letter) - Angela Martello Letters: Limbo (letter) - John Young Letters: Waste of resources (letter) - Shane Dore Letters: Vocations (letter) - Mrs Irena Nagy Letters: G.K. Chesterton (letter) - Tony Evans Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter) - Mrs Jeanette Joseph Letters: Consecrated life (letter) - Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP Letters: New Age spirituality (letter) - Frances Grundy Letters: Recipe for decline (letter) - K. Logan Letters: Sermons (letter) - Bernie Lewis Letters: Anti-Catholicism (letter) - Kevin Tighe Letters: Christian art (letter) - Kim Portelli Letters: Science and Christianity (letter) - Mrs Carol V. Phillips Books: 'The Essence Of Feminism' by Kirsten Birkett - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer) Books: 'The Sacred Liturgy', 'Discovering the Mass', by a Benedictine monk - Christopher Quinn (reviewer) Books: 'Pope Pius XII: Architect For Peace' by Margherita Marchione - Michael Daniel (reviewer) New patterns of religious vocations in France Reflection: The essential role of the Catholic priest - Fr John A. Hardon SJ

As a parishioner of the Toowoomba Diocese, I have very grave doubts that the Diocesan Pastoral Plan will motivate our youth or anybody else to great spiritual renewal. It is a lengthy, politically correct, all-inclusive document that says very little and tells nothing of Catholic beliefs or truths. Rather, it encourages and endorses ideas and ideals from New Age and "Australian Spirituality" authors and advocates.

At the recent Jubilee celebrations in Toowoomba, bus-loads of children came from all corners of the Diocese to attend a Saturday night concert and Sunday morning ecumenical service led by Bishop Morris. Mass was not offered at the biggest Catholic celebration of the Jubilee year - while most children attending would have missed Mass, for there was no other opportunity available on the day.

As a grandmother who travelled the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I can honestly say I have never seen the like of the antics that constitute "liturgy and worship" in many of the Toowoomba Diocese's churches.

JEANETTE JOSEPH (MRS)
Dalby, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 14 No 1 (February 2001), p. 14