Tag: Catholic Church
Plenary voices: Mons Marcelino Youssef
Question: How might we better equip ordained ministers to be enablers of missionary discipleship: the Church becoming more a “priestly people” served by the...
Plenary voices: wake up, Catholic Australia! urges Archbishop Fisher
Fires, floods, plague and earthquake: they’re wake up calls.
Wake up Catholic Australia! There’s a bushfire consuming faith in this land. Disillusionment over child sexual...
Beyond the First Assembly: Archbishop Costelloe maps out the Plenary road...
The President of the 5th Plenary Council of Australia, the Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costelloe SDB has emphasised to Members how important their work...
Plenary voices: Sr Mary Julian Ekman RSM
Australia needs signs of hope! One sign is the dynamic witness given by priests, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful working together for...
Plenary voices: Hugo Ditroia
Today I come to fulfill a promise I made to the people of this diocese who contacted me from every corner of the Diocese...
Plenary voices: Dr Philippa Martyr
I spent some time listening to the livestream of the Plenary Council session of Wednesday 6 October, where small groups shared their three minutes...
Plenary voices: Sr Cecelia Joseph OP
From a secular point of view, the Catholic Church in Australia has outlived its usefulness. Health care for the poor, schools in the bush,...
Plenary voices: Deacon Colin Nunis
Addressing you from the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
Considering the questions presented in the agenda centred on the Church’s ministry...
Plenary voices: Fr Michael de Stoop
In the voices of the Plenary members, I hear the continued growth in our awareness of how terrible was the violent and insensitive crimes...
Plenary voices: Sr Isabell Naumann
On principle, there is no profession that women cannot carry out, for in the words of Edith Stein, “no woman is solely a ‘woman,’...
Plenary voices: Fr Julian Wellspring
The Church and her faith moves into the future by way of the family, the family being integral to God's plan of redemption. For...
The centrality of Liturgy: A Chaldean Perspective
Two basic rules on this subject.
First: liturgy is the life and heart of the Catholic Church, particularly for the Eastern Churches. It is the...
