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In wide-ranging critical feedback on the Plenary Council's draft proposals, the Archbishop of Hobart said the Church 'lacks confidence'

In his closing remarks to the ACCCR “The People and the Plenary” session, Emeritus Professor John Warhurst said more transparency around the Plenary’s processes at this stage could help keep members and the broader Church engaged. The Catholic Weekly could not agree more, and gives Professor Warhurst’s statements a ringing endorsement.

Members of the Plenary Council must “tailor our expectations” in anticipation of “the inevitable disappointment and disillusionment” that will follow the Second Assembly in July, Fr David Ranson, the Secretary of the Plenary Council, has told the Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform.

After Pope Francis’ general audience on 5 January, a delegation of German Catholics approached the Holy Father and pressed a document into his hands. The...

St Gregory of Nazianzus, the fourth-century pillar of orthodoxy and doctor of the Church, knew better than most the trials that come with responsibility.

The largest Australian church reform group has called for the Plenary Council process to be halted and restarted, calling the method of drafting proposals to be voted on at the Second Assembly “blatantly improper, cynical … manipulated and gravely compromised”.

The next round of the Plenary Council kicks off in July, so I have read the First Assembly’s Proposals document (December 2021) to bring myself up to speed. Compared to the virtual First Assembly sessions I briefly attended, this document is much better. If you remember, members of the First Assembly were given 16 questions […]

Even Beelzebub must feel sorry for the Catholic Church in Australia. Beset externally by enemies in the media, politics and what passes for the...

The Catholic Church’s clerical leadership, norms of governance, language and tradition have been raised as areas of potential reform at a significant post-Plenary convocation. The...

The new buzz word is ‘Synodality.’ It means ‘walking together.’ ‘Walking’ is, as we well know, a symbol of the moral life. The letters of Paul...

A question the Church must ask is, where are the dads? Over the last two years I've worked in Houses of Discernment which were set...

A Priceless Heritage: The Eastern Catholic Churches Before considering what the Eastern Catholic Churches are, and their place in the Catholic Communion in Australia, perhaps...