ULTIMO (AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
March 23, 2019
By Francis Sullivan
Many have asked whether the Catholic Church can survive the shock of the conviction of Cardinal George Pell and the impact on its credibility, even utility.
Yet to assume that the institution is exclusively the Church is to miss the point: Cardinal Pell has been sentenced, not Australia’s Catholics.
Believers, and those who identify with the Catholic faith tradition, are the real Church. The institution is but an organised mechanism to give expression to some of that believing community’s social and practical activities.
For the Church to survive, its members need to take responsibility for their future.
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