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Year 9 Assessment Catholic Church in Australia

The Australian Catholic Church has change by a large margin in the 21st century and has had many challenges arising. The decline in religious vocations, falling mass attendance, married clergy, female ordination and the role of the laity are all issues contributing to the challenges of the Australian Catholic Church. Several of today's Catholics differ, often passionately, about the qualities of the liturgical reforms as well as the reasons for the steep reject in Australian Mass attendances. Ordinary mass attendances have gone down by 50-60 percent in the 1960s to just about 15 percent in 2001.
The Catholic Church has had a number of challenges and one of these is the Decline in religious vocations. The religious vocations are on their way of a sudden decline and this has been confirmed by the pope, "typical Christianity is fading more rapidly here in Australia than in any other country." The lack of occupations will prove to......

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