Tag: Plenary Council
Has the Church really ‘abandoned’ its women?
The Church is always waiting to welcome home any person whose life has taken them in directions contrary to its teachings
‘Stop plenary’ demand
The largest Australian church reform group has called for the Plenary Council process to be halted and restarted, calling the method of drafting proposals to be voted on at the Second Assembly “blatantly improper, cynical … manipulated and gravely compromised”.
How will the Second Assembly succeed?
Although the first assembly of the Plenary Council is well and truly in the rear-view mirror, this week saw the conclusion of an important bridging stage between the two assemblies.
Plenary Council critics rejoice! Normalcy is being restored
The next round of the Plenary Council kicks off in July, so I have read the First Assembly’s Proposals document (December 2021) to bring myself up to speed. Compared to the virtual First Assembly sessions I briefly attended, this document is much better. If you remember, members of the First Assembly were given 16 questions […]
The Mission? It’s you
Much of the Plenary Council discussions seem to be around ‘what people need’, ‘what best connects with Australians today’ or ‘what can people do’....
Greg Craven: Plenary ‘reformers’ are really demolitionists
Even Beelzebub must feel sorry for the Catholic Church in Australia. Beset externally by enemies in the media, politics and what passes for the...
Without change Church’s mission is at risk, Plenary reformers say
The Catholic Church’s clerical leadership, norms of governance, language and tradition have been raised as areas of potential reform at a significant post-Plenary convocation.
The...
Philippa Martyr: Lost art of fasting is worth rediscovering
This week I’m changing gears a bit and looking at some other Plenary Council recommendations and interventions.
The Plenary Council really tried to engage other...
Philippa Martyr: Projecting sin onto others is not what conversion is
So how else can we be different from the world? How can we bring it salt and light, instead of blending into the secular...
Archbishop Fisher OP calls for a ‘powerhouse of prayer’ to renew...
“Only through prayer can we hear, discern, converse, propose, decide,” said the archbishop at the Mass marking the midpoint of the Plenary Council's first assembly.
Plenary: return the Church to Jesus and Jesus to the Church
On 21 November 1964, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, known to most of us as Lumen Gentium, was officially promulgated as one of...
Prelates set out key principles, questions for Plenary deliberations
Raising the Church in Australia to address the crisis of vocations – whether to marriage, religious life or priesthood – is a vital task...
