Tag: Plenary 2021
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...
Plenary voices: Daniel Ang – Initial Reflections on a Plenary Council...
Having served as a war-time correspondent, the American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow could declare in the face of the world’s complexity, “Anyone who isn’t...
Plenary voices: Chris Lee
The question of the margins is something to reflect upon for all of us. In particular my question is: are we still a church...
On this Plenary pilgrimage, humility and gratitude will enable us to...
Brothers and Sisters in Jesus-Christ our Lord,
“Who, then, is the faithful and wise slave whom his master has put in charge of his household...
Plenary voices: Fr Eric Skruzny
I feel I need to speak of one of the success stories in Australia since Vatican II; namely the new ecclesial realities that though...
