What does all this mean for the Church and its religious leaders as we head into an unpredictable future?
The Australian Catholic Church is at the crossroads. Retreating into a Tridentine restorationist past is an option but it will end in failure in a mobile, networked, diasporic, multifaith and multipolared world. Historically the Church in Australia has been united by a series of grievances built around its Irish-Rome core. I want to focus the rest of this address around four major challenges:
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