Tag: Plenary Council

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...

Meet the four delegates who will represent the laity at the Plenary Council in October.

Each of us, individually, is called to strive to live a life of service to God in the circumstances in which we find ourselves and the unique purpose He calls us to fulfil.

The recent announcement by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they would step back as senior members of the Royal Family and relocate,...

Having painted a rather grim picture of where the Church in Australia is at in this series of articles, it’s time to offer some...