What’s in it for us?

Originally published in the Southern Cross Newspaper

“Talking with some people after Mass recently, they expressed a sense of being ‘over consulted’ and ‘consultation fatigue’. They joked that we went from a time in the Church when we were asked about nothing, told to, in their words, ‘pay, pray and obey’, to a time more recently when we seem to be asked our opinion every other day about something.

It’s true we have entered into a different mode of being the Church, and yet it is an ancient mode, and authentic mode. Some seem a little sceptical because this appears new or as if we are ‘imitating the failures of other churches’. A short look at the history of the Church sees that both of these statements are not true. This is an authentic expression of our Catholic faith.”

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