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	Australian Catholic Bishop Speaks Here about Power and Sex in the Church Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 22, 2008 http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=20729 Controversial Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson was scheduled, as of press time for this column, to speak at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday, May 20, sharing his perspectives about sex and the Catholic Church. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson has been called controversial by his contemporaries for his ideas regarding the Catholic Church's approach to sensitive issues. These are detailed in his book, Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus, published last fall. Robinson speaks from his experiences in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1990s where, as Auxiliary Bishop, he was placed in charge of dealing with the sex abuse crisis. According to Ed Wilson, a member of the group Voice of the Faithful, which works for Church reform, Sydney's sex abuse scandal was of higher magnitude than that of the US. Robinson played an active role in developing a process for prevention of sexual abuse within the Church and has made large strides towards raising the consciousness of Church leaders to their responsibilities. The Australian prelate will also share his views on Rome and discuss his concerns that the power structure at the Vatican has become a one-man monarchical situation instead of the College of Bishops standing with the Pope as what Bp. Robinson believes is the intended, united governing body. Robinson's talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. The national media have given wide attention to another, unrelated, Bishop Robinson, in the US Episcopal Church. The election five years ago of the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, an openly-gay clergyman, to lead the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire continues to be hailed by gay-rights activists as a victory, and criticized by conservative Episcopalians as a cause of rancor within that denomination.
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