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Sunday, November 21, 2004 GroupsGeoff for a few reasons we do't get the newpaper every day so I have not read the article. Could you scan it and sent it around, please.I was once in the Neo-Cathical Community, which is very good, but time consuming. I dropped out when they moved from the Anglican church in Ashburton to somewher in the north, Fawkner, I think and to a R. C. church where they would be more welcome, (by the bishops). Always wanted to be in Opus Dei just because of the name, 'work of God' but that is a very conservative movement these days. Really there are too many groups and too many churches: its wasn't meant to be like that. Sure there is in theology one church throughout the world, but in practice too many, too close together, doing much the same thing, (I have always wanted more variety). Once in the spell when I was a church treasurer I said to the Registrar of the Diocese we have too many churches and that a parish is 10 minutes drive on a quiet Sunday morning, to which she replied, 'we know and would like to amalgamate many'. That in the Anglican churches is a slow painful process usually driven by financial problems. Meanwhile, the bishops and some people want to put up church buildings, halls, houses, kindergatens and even schools in the new suburbs, and that means big amounts of dollars for land and buildings. In times past the churches, especially the then Church of England in Australia, got land by government grant (Holy Tinity for example) or by bequests in wills. Not likely today, and like probate taxes too slow in coming in. Gary # posted by Anonymous @ 6:03 am 0 comments
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