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Andrea Dean
Andrea Dean, is chair of Women and the Australian Church (WATAC). She has played a key role this year as chair of two national convocations on church reform presented by the Australasian Coalition on Catholic Church Reform.
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Catholic Plenary awakens hope despite women’s fading trust in the hierarchy
Andrea Dean was director of the office for women in the Catholic Church until the office and her position were defunded. Despite fading trust in the leadership of the church, the Plenary Council has awakened her hopes for change. Continue reading »
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Catholic renewal coalition discusses Plenary Council with Archbishops
Catholics, priests and laity, are increasingly wanting renewal and reform of their Church to overcome dysfunctional governance and leadership failures, particularly reflected in the scandals of clerical child sexual abuse and its cover-ups. Recently the co-conveners of the Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR),Peter Johnston and Andrea Dean, met with Archbishop Coleridge, President of Continue reading »
