{"id":523,"date":"2003-05-19T13:35:51","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=523"},"modified":"2003-05-19T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2003-05-19T13:35:51","slug":"congregation-rejects-priests-disruption-of-aboriginal-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Congregation rejects priest’s disruption of Aboriginal ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"
O<\/span>ne of Australia’s largest and most historic indigenous church congregations wants its parish priest of eight months dismissed because he allegedly alienates Aborigines.<\/p>\n

The dispute began when Fr Peter Carroll MSC demanded the removal of Aborigines gathered on the footpath outside St Vincent’s Catholic Church in Redfern, Sydney, before Sunday mass.<\/p>\n

Under his predecessor, the legendary Fr Ted Kennedy, it was a tradition to disburse collection money to those waiting outside the church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The congregation is also objecting to Fr Carroll’s eviction of an Aboriginal man who, with Fr Kennedy’s blessing, had been squatting in the unused presbytery for more than a decade. It is believed Fr Carroll evicted the man because of health and safety concerns.\n<\/div>\n

\nThe priest has also tried to evict Linda Kemp from the weekly church cleaning job she has held for nine years. She alleges he offered her $1500 to quit and asked her to sign a confidentiality agreement.<\/p>\n

"He has a fear of Aboriginal people. He doesn’t give us the time of day. He doesn’t talk to us after mass. He’s straight out the door," Ms Kemp said.<\/p>\n

The congregation would contact Archbishop George Pell and the Provincial of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart this week to demand Fr Carroll’s removal.<\/p>\n

It said that if Father Carroll was not removed immediately, it would consider breaking away from the Sydney Archdiocese.<\/p>\n

Worshippers argue that Fr Carroll is violating canon law, which says "clerics are always to do their utmost to foster among people peace and harmony based on justice".<\/p>\n

SOURCE<\/strong>
\n The Australian<\/p>\n

LINKS<\/strong>
\nAboriginal Catholic Ministry, Redfern
\nPope’s message of support for Sydney aboriginal medical centre (7\/1\/02)
\nThou shalt not covet: a frail fighter puts his plea to the Pope (SMH 3\/12\/01)
\nAustralia: Confessions of a dying priest. Our savage moment of truth<\/a>
\nMissionaries of the Sacred Heart<\/a>
\nArchdiocese of Sydney<\/a> | St Vincent de Paul Church<\/a><\/p>\n

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This story is available at:<\/em> http:\/\/www.cathnews.com\/news\/305\/101.php<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of Australia’s largest and most historic indigenous church congregations wants its parish priest of eight months dismissed because he allegedly alienates Aborigines.<\/p>\n

The dispute began when Fr Peter Carroll MSC demanded the removal of Aborigines gathered on the footpath outside St Vincent’s Catholic Church in Redfern, Sydney, before Sunday mass.<\/p>\n

Under his predecessor, the legendary Fr Ted Kennedy, it was a tradition to disburse collection money to those waiting outside the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-pastors-appointed-by-george-pell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}