Tag: Plenary Council
The Plenary’s agenda must be exposed
By Sandy Wallace
The Catholic Church was born from the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. She is not a man made construct open to...
Plenary motions too constrained by equality-as-power paradigm, say women
Women reported that a distressing day which disrupted and altered the Plenary Council process left them ultimately with a sense of hope that unity...
Two classes: professional Catholic activists and ordinary Catholic women
It looks like the Plenary Council motions on women in the Church all failed to make the required two-thirds majority to pass on Tuesday...
The tale of two Councils
The opening days of the fifth Plenary Council have surfaced the complex realities and fissures that underlie the Church in Australia. They have given...
Vote on women throws Plenary into crisis
The agenda for the Plenary Council was thrown into crisis and disrupted on Wednesday morning after more than 60 of the 277 members formed...
Members back new study of abuse
The Plenary Council has apologised formally to victims, survivors and families of child abuse and has committed to a further investigation into the systemic...
Uluru statement endorsed
The Catholic Church in Australia has officially endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for a First Nations voice to Parliament to...
Breathing through both lungs
Eastern bishop urges members to beware a worldly spirit at Council
The Plenary Council must not listen only to the “intellectual and theological elite”, and...
We’re not factions. Listen humbly to the Spirit, President tells Plenary...
We are “not enemies or combatants seeking to prevail over others”, Plenary Council president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB of Perth has told members in...
Church in Australia is exhausted; Plenary can be prophetic and renew...
The Plenary Council could be a prophetic voice encouraging a tired, frustrated and apathetic Church, the assembled bishops and member delegates of the Plenary...
Pope Francis, the liturgy and the Plenary Council
With impeccable timing, Pope Francis has released an Apostolic Letter Desiderio Desideravi on 29 June, just before our Plenary Council sessions begin.
‘Desiderio desideravi’ are the...
Council is a key moment for Church
A Plenary has wide-ranging power and has gone through an extensive process to get to this week’s Second Assembly
What is the Plenary Council?
A Plenary...
