Tag: Plenary Council

So far, the Instrumentum Laboris has shown us what the Church in Australia is like now, and an image of what it could be....

Change through a personal encounter with Christ Remarkably, the new Instrumentum Laboris is the most honest Church document I’ve ever seen produced in Australia. So...

I’d like to review the Instrumentum Laboris starting with section I, which is called ‘The Story So Far’. The story so far is not a...

"I’m confident that the Church is in good hands,” said Sydney's youngest Plenary Delegate Chris Lee

The Plenary Council discussions haven’t yet engaged with our demographic problems – even though the Final Report from Phase 1 said (p.1) that the...

I was absolutely delighted to see that Dr Trudy Dantis, the Director of the National Centre for Pastoral Research (NCPR), is helping to write...

Confidential document appeared online before release In a shock move, a confidential advisory report to Australia’s Catholics bishops and religious superiors has been leaked to...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB released six discernment papers on Pentecost Sunday in a step towards the fifth Plenary Council of Australia. The documents are the...

The two assemblies will still take place Adelaide and Sydney, with a year's delay due to the pandemic.

Plenary Council organisers have postponed its first assembly which had been scheduled for October this year in Adelaide. Plenary Council president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB...