A Mass celebrated by Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president and Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge has closed the first general assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia this morning. The Mass comes a week after Archbishop Timothy Costelloe...

As he closed the formal proceedings of the first general assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia Saturday evening, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB reflected on a week that had been "inspiring, challenging and sometimes unsettling". Archbishop...

An impassioned call for "a prayer for the future of our common home, a Gospel for the home of our future generations" was made during the final reporting back on small group discernment by Plenary Council members today. The presenters' comprehensive reports...

Archbishop Peter A Comensoli in today's Mass for the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia has said the Council's task is to reveal the face of Christ - a face that blends cultures, languages, ethnicities and histories. The Melbourne Archbishop celebrated...

The concept of "sniffing out" the presence of God in the world, articulated by theologian Fr Richard Lennan in an address to the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, struck a chord with many members as they continued their discernment. Fr Lennan, a priest...

Maronite Archbishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay OLM has spoken about the significance of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Latin Rite Church coming together as "pilgrims" for the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. Archbishop Tarabay, who celebrated Thursday's...

Day four of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia will take on a different feel, as members spend extra time offline, praying with and reflecting on questions about seeing through the eyes of those who have been abused and reaching those on the peripheries...

The 278 members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia have continued to break open the 16 questions related to how we can create a more missionary, Christ-centred Church in Australia at this time. After the broad discussions of the first small group...

The first "spiritual conversations" of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia covered a broad range of thoughts and topics from Baptism being the place for fundamental conversion to the need for the Church to tend to its past and current failures. The...

Pope Francis has sent greetings and blessings from Rome as the program for the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, the first such event in this country in 84 years, began today. A message read out during the opening plenary session this morning said the...