Author Archives: Church Mouse

Read about our most caring and compassionate (whoops – badly worded, but you know what I mean) George Cardinal Pell here.

And as the saga unfolds also here.

Brian Coyne (Catholica Australia) has expressed things far better in these words:

The exercise is like trying to resurrect a broken down motor vehicle engine – something else I’ve been involved in at various points in my life. If the engine has something like a broken crankshaft, or a smashed big end bearing (something wrong deep down in the heart of the engine where you … Continue reading →

There have been many violent incidents at St Vincent’s since the arrival of the Neocats in Redfern, and some have been reported on these pages over the years. Most, if viewed in isolation, might be dismissed as comparatively trivial, but when each is considered as part of an overall pattern of behaviour it becomes clear that there is a serious problem at St Vincent’s.

Several recent incidents can definitely not be classified as trivial, no matter how they are viewed.

On Tuesday, 11 March 2008, an elderly nun, who has worked tirelessly with the marginalised for many years, was physically … Continue reading →

Back in the middle of 2007 the community sent letters and copies of a detailed report on the Redfern Neocat experience to a number of senior bishops in the Vatican. Some of the letters may be found here. To date only one reply has been received – from Archbishop Mauro Piacenza on behalf of the Congregation for the Clergy (Congregatio pro Clericis). His letter is reproduced below.

It is difficult to take seriously Piacenza’s claim that the Dicastery studied the May 2007 report when he pronounces that … Continue reading →