Tag: Plenary Council 2020
Plenary President urges Catholics to pray for discernment
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says that without a profound engagement with the Church’s tradition of discernment there is a risk Australian Catholics may...
Philippa Martyr: A road map for the future
What I would like to see the Instrumentum Laboris for the Plenary do is:
Focus on the practicing Catholics first. We are realistically a Church...
Plenary 2020: an inclusive Church?
We accept everyone - it sounds so nice. But you can’t be a Christian without repentance and conversion, without the attempt to change your...
Plenary 2020 and holiness: Hear the plea of the young
Australian youth want holiness ffrom the Church. On this issue, the Plenary needs to deliver.
Fr John Flader: Sensus fidei is no mere poll
Sensus fidei, literally “sense of faith”, also called sensus fidelium, “sense of the faithful”, is described by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as...
Bishop warns of Plenary Council risk
Calls for a ‘new Church’ risks infidelity to God, Sydney bishop has warned.
Archbishop Julian Porteous: laying solid foundations for Plenary 2020
The Plenary Council 2020/2021 will be a major ecclesial event for the Church here in Australia. It will be an historical moment and will...
Phillipa Martyr: A catechesis Australia needs
Confusion revealed in Plenary Council listening sessions
The Plenary Council has recently started to release some of its preliminary findings from the listening sessions that...
Faithful tell Plenary 2020 they want a Christ-centred Church
After consulting more than 222,000 of the Catholic faithful on what they think God wants of the Church in Australia, six National Themes have...
What the Plenary Council won’t be able to change
Plenary Council 2020 will not have the power to enact anything contradicting the Church’s teachings on faith and morals, or to change the essentials...
Students ask bishops to keep the faith
Catholic uni students have called upon bishops to publically reject heterodox submissions to the Plenary Council.
Get over yourself: the only way to prepare for the Plenary...
By Shane Dwyer
If by now you haven’t heard that the Church in this country is preparing for its first Plenary Council since the 1930’s...
