{"id":576,"date":"2004-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=576"},"modified":"2004-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"good-on-you-fr-john-crothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Good on you, Fr John Crothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\">J<\/span>ohn Crothers, parish priest                            of St Declan&#8217;s, Peakhurst and Penshurst, in southwest                            Sydney has bravely spoken out against Pell&#8217;s leadership                            style in a letter to Online Catholics last week. The                            letter from which the following paragraphs were taken                            may be read <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinecatholics.com.au\/issue13\/commessay.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">The fundamental problem with this sort of conservative                              leadership style is that it is exclusive and inflexible.                              Its exclusiveness expresses itself in an &quot;us                              and them&quot; mentality. I think this is one of the                              main reasons for the current low morale among the                              Sydney priests. Many feel that they are &quot;on the                              outer&quot; because their model of church does not                              correspond to the highly conservative model that is                              being pushed at the moment.<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">The inflexibility of this particular model of                              leadership is expressed in the way the institution                              is seen as more important than the people in it. The                              gluten-free host issue is a typical example. I simply                              cannot understand how bishops can argue that this                              is what Jesus would want. Jesus&#8217; way of ministering                              was anything but rigid and institutionalised. He focussed                              on people, rather than laws. In particular he was                              always inclusive, rather than exclusive. I feel that                              many of our Church leaders need to reassess the current                              model of Church leadership in the light of Jesus&#8217;                              own style of leadership.<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                                                    <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The issue was also taken up by the Sydney Morning Herald                            with articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/08\/22\/1093113057267.html\">Monday<\/a>                            and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/08\/23\/1093246444299.html\">Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                          Let us pray that more of the good men out there find                            the courage to make a stand with Fr John.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">John Crothers, parish priest of St Declan&#8217;s, Peakhurst and Penshurst, in southwest Sydney has bravely spoken out against Pell&#8217;s leadership style in a letter to Online Catholics last week. The letter from which the following paragraphs were taken may be read <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinecatholics.com.au\/issue13\/commessay.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p> The fundamental problem with this sort of conservative leadership style is that it is exclusive and inflexible. Its exclusiveness expresses itself in an &quot;us and them&quot; mentality. I think this is one of the main reasons for the current low morale among the Sydney priests. Many feel that they are &quot;on the outer&quot; because their &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=576\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}