Foundations: Preparing the Church in Australia for the Plenary Council and beyond Treece

Foundations: Preparing the Church in Australia for the Plenary Council and beyond TreeceFor any Catholic living in Australia at the present moment the challenges to the faith are great indeed. The culture around us is changing rapidly, not only abandoning its Christian heritage but becoming increasingly hostile to the Church. Within the Church there is a serious struggle to know how to respond to these changes. Does the Church adapt itself to the culture? How can it preserve its true identity? The evident decline in religion and in

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the narrator finds himself in the grey limbo of Hell

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and the lives of great Australians

leaving us the Eucharist and the other sacraments that enable us to share in His divine life

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the authority of Scripture alone-were rejected in favour of a "both/and" doctrine of justification by both faith and works on the basis of the authority of both Scripture and tradition