Article: Qld: Rebel Roman Catholic Church faces schism


AAP General News (Australia)
08-25-2008
Qld: Rebel Roman Catholic Church faces schism

BRISBANE, Aug 25 AAP - Members of a renegade Catholic church will meet tonight to consider
an ultimatum from Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby to toe the line or face closure.

In a three-page letter delivered to parish priest Father Peter Kennedy on Friday, Archbishop
Bathersby called the 700-strong parish of St Mary's South Brisbane "an authority to itself".

"The question for me is not so much whether St Mary's should be closed down, but whether
St Mary's will close itself down by practices that separate it from communion with the
Roman Catholic Church," Archbishop Bathersby wrote.

Father Kennedy ...

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