Letters

Women's Commission (2) (letter)

Dr Myles M. Kehoe

Contents - Dec 2002 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Christmas 2002: the state of the Church - Peter Westmore New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ - AD2000 Report News: The Church Around the World - AD2000 Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor - Michael Gilchrist Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues - Eamonn Keane Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge - Peter D. Howard 'New' ecumenism fights secular culture: Protestant theologian Archbishop Chaput: what makes a good leader? - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-considered -  A.G. Evans Letters: The Pell case (letter) - Alan A. Hoysted Letters: Clergy support (letter) - Peter R. McNamara Letters: Anti-Catholicism (letter) - Glenn Talaue Letters: Women's Commission (1) (letter) - Sr Breda O'Reilly Letters: Women's Commission (2) (letter) - Dr Myles M. Kehoe Letters: Bishops' initiative (letter) - Therese Vassarotti Letters: Bishop Power (letter) - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: St Maria Goretti (letter) - Anne Buchan Letters: 'Misandry' (letter) - Name and address supplied Letters: Forgiveness (letter) - John Schmid Letters: Visionary (letter) - Tom King Letters: Newman (letter) - Rev Julius C. Stonehouse Letters: Apologetics (letter) - Geoff Storey Poetry: The New Year - D.C. Craig Books: Bio-Engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Books: Eucharistic Devotion : renewing a timeless tradition / Heart of St Alphonsus - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP - Tracey Rowland (reviewer) Books: Top Ten AD2000 Books for 2002 Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ' - Pope John Paul II

My congratulations and thanks to Michael Gilchrist on his excellent article on the Commission for Australian Catholic Women.

He clearly demonstrates the foolish nonsense that some of our respected bishops condone, and even actively encourage, to satisfy the raucous noise from a few paranoid feminists, while they refuse to acknowledge or tackle the crisis in Catholic education and the pleas for true leadership from the dwindling population of orthodox Catholics, who struggle to preserve the Faith of our fathers against those who should be protecting it.

It would be funny in a macabre sort of way if the creation of such vacuous bureaucracy did not involve considerable expenditure of Church funds - of which the bishops are the trustees, not the owners. That makes it tragic.

It was of interest to note in at least one parish, the activity of the holy nuns when the Archbishop invited submissions of subjects for discussion at a forthcoming synod. Almost without exception, they were exhorting the laity to request the ordination of women and the restoration of the Third Rite of Reconciliation.

It is difficult to understand why, with few exceptions, those bishops who have so much concern for the perceived persecution of a few Catholic women, appear to be so silent on the fate of embryos, and have so little to say publicly on abortion, contraception, euthanasia, embryo research and the pressing moral issues threatening to destroy our nation. Even the liturgical aberrations to which we are subjected do not seem to interest them.

MYLES M. KEHOE (DR)
Isaacs, ACT

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 15 No 11 (December 2002 - January 2003), p. 13