Reflections

My opinion on our Religion class with Mr. Burden in 2011 was very fun and our teacher was great. He took us back to the days of where Jesus travelled, and he made education fun, and no homework was a blast :D. Overall, I learnt alot in this class and I know that the future students who have Mr. Burden as a teacher would as well.

 

Work

a. Many of the priests and bishops in Australia up until about 1900 had Irish backgrounds  True
b. Bishop Moran arrived in Australia in 1880 True
c. The first Australian seminary was St Patrick’s  True
d. During the time of Cardinal Moran, the government demanded that all education be non-religious  True
e. Cardinal Moran helped to establish the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia  True
f. Archbishop Mannix was prepared to confront the government over social issues  True
g. All Catholics in Australia were against conscription in 1917  True
h. Mannix was a major advocate of conscription False
i. Catholics and non-Catholic Australians all got on well together during the period 1914-18  True
j. Catholics had no access to Catholic media until the 1950s  True

3.Write an obituary for Cardinal Moran, including something of his personal history as well as what he accomplished and the changes he brought about in the
 Church during his time.
 
Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran
Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna
3rd Archbishop of Sydney (1884-1911)
The arrival of Bishop, later Cardinal Moran, in Australia in 1884 saw the beginnings of change in the character of Australian
 Catholicism. Bishop Moran advocated a Church that was at peace with itself, was moderate in its political demands and fitted
 in with the Australian community as a whole.

Archbishop Moran worked to establish an Australian priesthood. He was instrumental in the founding of a seminary, St Patrick’s
 at Manly, near Sydney, and a preparatory college for clerical students, St Columba’s at Springwood in the Blue Mountains.
 He wanted more Australian-born and trained priests rather than relying on priests coming from overseas.

In the late 1880s and 1890s the colonies of Australia were all moving toward the establishment of a federation of states that
would mean one nation, Australia. Australians had become increasingly nationalistic, considering themselves now Australians,
 not English, Irish or Europeans. Archbishop Moran saw that Australian Catholics needed to be similarly united and instigated
meetings of archbishops and bishops from all states to work toward such unity.

At this time sectarianism, that is, distrust and misunderstanding between Catholics and non-Catholics, was still very strong.
 Catholics felt they needed to fight for their rights. Governments demanded that all education be secular, that is, non-religious.

Cardinal Moran tried to work within the established system to achieve equality. For example, he argued for state aid to Catholic
schools if they taught secular subjects like state schools and had religious education as an additional subject.

He also worked toward a Church which would become involved in social issues such as help for the poor, and he fought for justice
 in the workplace. He helped establish the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia and supported the workers in the Great Strike
 of 1889. Some Catholics criticised him for his way of doing things, claiming that he was not strong enough in standing up for
 Catholics.

This period of peace and integration contrasted with the confrontation, conflict and challenge that characterised the next
 important era of the Australian Catholic Church..

The video extract from the SBS telecast of Pope Benedict’s official arrival for WYD Sydney 2008 shows Cardinal Pell’s welcome.
 Indigenous dancers and singers from Darwin and Katherine and a didgeridoo player from northern NSW had extended a Welcome to Land.
Then Cardinal Pell spoke of the welcome given to Cardinal Moran in 1884 when Australia’s population was only 270,000.

 

 

What it’s like being Catholic

Being a catholic in modern day society is where in school, you have to learn Religion because it is Compulsory. It explains about how Religion affects society, relationships and how it affects you. In the church, when you look around, you mostly see older people aged 20 to 60, this wasn’t the same back in the day. People then didn’t question what the Church was doing, but now, you young people don’t go because they question the church and their people or their just lazy. I am catholic and so is my family, I went to St. Mary’s Cathedral College because my family thought about the education, not about the fact that it’s a catholic school. I think that nowadays, parents are looking for education rather than religion. I am a youth being and bringing Christ wherever I go.

 

Good Deeds

 

Prezi :)

 

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