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- Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesAustralia's bishops have used their annual social justice statement to condemn the scourge of domestic and family violence, saying relationships must be "marked by respect and freedom rather than coercion and control". The Church in Australia has published...
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Fifth Plenary Council of Australia closes
9 July 2022The nine-month celebration phase of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia ended on Saturday, with Council Members standing and applauding as president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB formally declared the Council closed. Almost four-and-a-half years... - Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesPlenary Council president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has encouraged Council Members to continue relying upon the Holy Spirit as they move into the future. Archbishop Costelloe was the principal celebrant and homilist at the closing Mass of the Fifth...
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Second Assembly ends on a high note
8 July 2022On the final full day of the Plenary Council, Members have celebrated the passage of almost all motions contained in the Motions and Amendments document that formed the second assembly's agenda. Eighteen of the 19 motions considered on Friday passed... - Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesPlenary Council Members have passed all six motions they considered on Thursday across parts of the agenda in the areas of Church governance and integral ecology. Among the reforms backed were a call for the establishment of diocesan pastoral councils...
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Members hear call to mission and conversion
7 July 2022After a change to the program, Plenary Council Members have been reflecting on four parts of the Motions and Amendments document on Thursday, assisted by input from the theological advisors to the Council.hear call Members are expected to address Parts... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Changes to program lead to change in voting plan
7 July 2022Due to a change in the program for the Plenary Council's second assembly, no deliberative votes were cast on Thursday morning. Council Members are working through four parts of the Motions and Amendments document, participating in reflection and discernment... - Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesThe Members of the Plenary Council have spent Wednesday afternoon working together to reconsider a pair of motions that were not passed earlier in the day. In the first afternoon session, an overwhelming majority of Members backed a motion to reconsider...
- Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesMembers of the Plenary Council are being invited to spend additional time to discern after two motions did not achieve a qualified majority in voting that has taken place over the past 24 hours. The outcomes of the consultative and deliberative votes...
- Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesMembers of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were encouraged on Tuesday evening to embrace the "new and demanding urgency" of ecumenism. Bishop Michael McKenna, the chair of the Bishops Commission for Christian Unity and Inter-religious Dialogue,...