For nearly eight years, Brisbane’s Catholic archbishop John Bathersby refused to remove artwork by controversial urban, mixed race Aboriginal artist Fiona Foley from his cathedral, St Stephen’s.  The relevant work, said to be a shrine and packaged as Aboriginal, was in August 2005 quietly removed from St Stephen’s and relocated.  The fact that Foley’s work was offensive on a number of levels and that it was the product of a white, western tradition has never been acknowledged by the archbishop.

This website provides information on Fiona Foley’s Human Search for God shrine, as detailed in the original News From The Pews series.

News From The Pews asks: Is there any accountability in the Catholic Church in Brisbane?

News From The Pews also presents other articles discussing neo-Gnostic art in the Australian church and the related activities of the Australian church’s neo-Gnostic subcultures.

Click HERE  to read News From The Pews

Click HERE  for the Summary issue, Issue 18

Click HERE  for articles from the US Catholic newspaper, The Wanderer, about occult activity in the archdiocese of  Brisbane

Click HERE  for Quadrant article "Obscurity, Alchemy and Artifice"

Click HERE  for article in Lifelines "Gnostics on the Loose"

Click HERE  for recent article "Ambush at World Youth Day "

Click HERE  to hear audio presentation about 'Purgatory' by Fr Paul O'Sullivan O.P.

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