Pell’s conservatism adds fuel to the fire of Catholic disharmony
Sydney Morning Herald, August 3, 2004
Australian Catholics are at odds over how to practise their faith in the modern world, writes Paul Collins.
Cardinal George Pell has trouble on his hands in inner Sydney. Yesterday a leading conservative priest, Father Terence Purcell, of St Benedict’s parish Broadway, was protesting because the Cardinal wants to turn his disused school building into a campus for Notre Dame University, which Pell wants to import from Fremantle.
One wonders why Notre Dame has to come to Sydney when the Australian Catholic University has campuses in North Sydney … Continue reading