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Plenary Members present final reports of First Assembly
9 October 2021An 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Plenary Council's Task: "Reveal the face of Christ"
9 October 2021Archbishop 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Plenary Members focus on Mission in God's World
8 October 2021The 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Plenary Council journey one for 'dusty, patient pilgrims'
7 October 2021Maronite 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesDay 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...
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Members unpack big questions facing the Church
6 October 2021The 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Council Members begin work of Communal Discernment
5 October 2021The 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Pope sends blessings to Historic Church Event
4 October 2021Pope 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... - Author: Archdiocesan Media Releases
Catholics in Australia urged: "Become True Disciples"
3 October 2021As Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB opened the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, he said Catholics "must become, even more than we are already, a community of true disciples". The Plenary Council, the first such gathering in Australia since 1937, is... - Author: Archdiocesan Media ReleasesArchbishop Mark Coleridge publicly endorsed the Uluru Statement From The Heart* on behalf of the Archdiocese of Brisbane at an event at Ormiston on Friday September 24. His Grace's backing for the statement came at the end of a speech by Dean Parkin,...