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| Document Name | Document Description | Document Download |
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| Complaint to the Vatican about Religious Education | Complaint to the Vatican via the Apostolic Delegate about religious education in the Broken Bay Diocese | Download Document (58 KB) |
| Summary of lessons, year 1 to year 6 in “To Know Worship and Love” Text Books currently being used in Australian Catholic primary schools | Spreadsheet briefly summarising religious education lessons year 1 to year 6 in "To Know Worship and Love" Text Books. currently being used in Australian Catholic primary schools | Download Document (94 KB) |
| Appendix A | Evidence supporting a number of particular claims in the main complaint document. | Download Document (27 KB) |
| Appendix B | Appendix B is the submission to the Plenary Council. To read these documents, go to the Submission to the Plenary Council category of documents | Download Document (0 KB) |
| Appendix C | Letter of 5 April 2016 to Bishop Peter Comensoli drawing his attention to some problems with the sacramental programs of Reconciliation and Eucharist in the Broken Bay Diocese | Download Document (234 KB) |
| Appendix D | Letter of 26 May 2016 from Bishop Comensoli inviting the group to meet with Mr Peter Hamill, the Director of Catholic Education Office in the Broken Bay Diocese and Ms Alison Newall, Head of the Confraternity of Catholic Doctrine for Broken Bay Diocese. | Download Document (146 KB) |
| Appendix E | Quotes on Reconciliation and Hell | Download Document (22 KB) |
| Appendix F | Graph showing percentage of Catholics attending weekly Mass | Download Document (77 KB) |
| Appendix G | Figures for weekly Mass attendance by Catholics on a diocese basis comparing years 2011 with 2016 | Download Document (427 KB) |
| Appendix H | Article discussing the Mass Attendance figures for the year 2016 shown in Appendix G. | Download Document (604 KB) |
| Appendices I to N | Excel spreadsheets setting out the essentials of faith missing from sacramental programs, texts used in Catholic schools, texts used in state schools,. Excel spreadsheets setting out the essentials of faith missing from the RCIA books currently being used in the Frenchs Forest Parish and the from the book used for five years before the current book in the Frenchs Forest Parish. | Download Document (29 KB) |
| Appendix O | Email of 5 June 2019 to the Member for Wakehurst, Mr Brad Hazzard, requesting information about the Roman Catholic Church Property Act of 1936. | Download Document (122 KB) |
| Appendix P | Response from Mr Brad Hazzard MP of 13 June 2019 regarding the request for information about the Roman Catholic Church Property Act of 1936 | Download Document (35 KB) |
| Appendix Q | The Roman Catholic Church Property Act of 1936 | Download Document (261 KB) |
| Appendix R | Article by Phillipa Martyr titled "Findings for Plenary Council sessions indicae | Download Document (0 KB) |
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| Why do Catholics need to go to Mass on Sunday? | When you are baptised a Catholic and later receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist for the first time, you are obliged to attend Mass on all Sundays and holidays on pain of committing a mortal sin for disobeying the third commandment | Download Document (104 KB) |
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| Submission to the Plenary Council | The Submission to the Plenary Council is comprised of a covering letter and a number of supporting attachments to back up what was said in the covering letter. The submission sets out what has gone so terribly wrong with Catholic religious education over the past 50 years and provides the reasons for why the Chuch's membership has been in sharp decline since the 1970s. | Download Document (644 KB) |
| Attachment A | List of matters requiring attention in more detail by the Church in Australia | Download Document (18 KB) |
| Attachment B | Submission for sacramental program on Reconciliation Broken bay diocese. | Download Document (0 KB) |
| Attachment C | Submission on sacramental program for Eucharist in Broken Bay Diocese | Download Document (17 KB) |
| Attachment D | Submission on Individual morality | Download Document (18 KB) |
| Attachment E | Submission on a Social Morality Policy for the Church | Download Document (17 KB) |
| Attachment F | Percentage of Catholics attending Mass weekly | Download Document (17 KB) |
| Attachment G | Submission about proposed changes to the Text books To Know, Worship and Love | Download Document (17 KB) |
| Attachment H | Submission that management of the Church should be performance based | Download Document (21 KB) |
| Attachment J | Speech by Archbishop Fisher reported in the Catholic Weekly in May 2015 | Download Document (7 MB) |
| Attachment K | Graph showing percentage of Catholics attending Mass weekly | Download Document (16 KB) |
| Atttachment L | List of signatories to the submission to the Plenary Council | Download Document (113 KB) |
| Attachments M & N | Comparison of the "Salvation approach" and the "discipleship approach" to religious education. | Download Document (79 KB) |
| Attachment O | Letter to the Archdiocese of Sydney on Sacramental programs for Reconciliation and Eucharist. | Download Document (172 KB) |
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| Australian Pre 1970s Catholic Religious Education Versus Current Approach | Comparision of 1970s religious education programs with current programs | Download Document (16 KB) |
| Summary of lessons, year 1 to year 6 in “To Know Worship and Love” Text Books currently being used in Australian Catholic primary schools | Spreadsheet briefly summarising religious education lessons year 1 to year 6 in "To Know Worship and Love" Text Books. currently being used in Australian Catholic primary schools | Download Document (94 KB) |
| Summary of lessons in “To Know Worship and Love” Text Books currently being used in Australian Catholic high schools | Spreadsheet briefly summarising lessons, in "To Know Worship and Love" Text Books currently being used in Australian Catholic high schools (years 7 to 10) | Download Document (200 KB) |
| Speech by Archbishop Anthony Fisher on the performance of his Catholic school system in regard to religious education published in the Catholic Weekly on 24 and 31 May 2015 | In May 2015, Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher gave a speech on the performance of religious education in his Catholic school system. The key point of this address was that, by the time they have reached the age of 29 years, only 5% of the graduates of his Catholic school system practise the faith. The speech was reported in the Catholic Weekly over two issues on 24 May and 31 May 2015. | Download Document (7 MB) |
