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Prelates set out key principles, questions for Plenary deliberations

Raising the Church in Australia to address the crisis of vocations – whether to marriage, religious life or priesthood – is a vital task...

Plenary 2021: The way ahead is to be our best –...

In Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Reg, a member of the People’s Liberation Front of Judea, asks rhetorically, ‘What have the Romans ever done...

Pope appoints Sydney Schoenstatt Sister Isabell Naumann ISSM to top body

The appointment is a prestigious one, with the Commission counting some of the Church’s most pre-eminent theologians among its alumni.

Reasons for faith, hope in a disrupted Church

The Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter Comensoli believes the current extended lockdown in much of eastern Australia represents an unprecedented opportunity for Catholics to draw...

Dr Philippa Martyr: One question the Plenary should ask

Last week I was musing about how beige Catholicism has almost smothered us to death in Australia. Certainly, it’s hard to find evidence of...

Discerning the Church with the Church at the Fifth Plenary Council...

On 3 October the fifth Plenary Council of Australian will commence, a historic opportunity for the Catholic Church in Australia to renew its commitment to the mission of Jesus Christ.

Mark Shea: Models of the Church: John and the Church of...

This is Part 4 of Mark Shea's series on Models of the Church There’s a little joke about Peter and John running to the tomb. ...

Monica Doumit: The new State of hostility takes shape

Victoria leads the way in implementing laws to ensure Christians and their churches have fewer and fewer rights It’s hard not to feel for our Victorian...

Churches should be for all, not just the vaccinated

Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has emphasised that vaccination must not be a barrier to communion with Jesus.

Mark Shea: Models of the Church – Mary and the Church...

Part 2 of Mark's series on Models of the Church Read the introduction here. The first model of the Church is the Marian model. Mary is,...

Nigel Zimmermann: Stagnation and death in the Church

The crisis is real and requires prudent responses Previously I wrote about the need to start our response to the Plenary Council by focusing on...

Plenary must face up to our crisis of faith, says Archbishop

The Plenary Council is set to begin in just three weeks’ time, in circumstances very different to those imagined back in November 2016, when...
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