Plenary Council – Communial discernment
While conversations around having a Plenary Council started almost 10 years ago, the journey to Plenary Council 2020 started in 2018. Thanks to the tireless effort of dioceses across Australia and buoyed by the passionate response of thousands of Australian Catholics,...
Plenary Council high on Bishops’ Rome agenda
When the Australian bishops head to Rome later this week, the Plenary Council will be a significant focus for prayer, for meetings with Pope Francis and officials from the Holy See, as well as a retreat. Last year, the bishops agreed that a retreat to help them focus...How Pope Francis calls us to mission
by Fr Noel Connolly SSC, Plenary Council Facilitation Team Friedrich Nietzsche, the atheistic, “death of God” philosopher, was fond of taunting his Christian friends with: “I’ll believe in your redeemer when you look more redeemed.” Pope Francis in Evangelii...
Comment by Lana Turvey-Collins
Listening, dialogue and prayer have carried us to this point. It is a beautiful work of the Holy Spirit that the Church in Australia has reached this point in the journey toward the Plenary Council. As we begin the second stage of preparation – Listening and...Plenary Council 2020
Year of Discernment After 10 months of Listening and Dialogue and a period of analysis and prayerful discernment, the National Themes for Discernment for the Plenary Council 2020 are being announced at Pentecost – this weekend. Find out more at:...What happens to my submission to the Plenary Council?
What happens to my story and recommendations after I’ve shared it? Online and postal responses are being collected and collated by the National Centre for Pastoral Research. A team highly skilled in social and pastoral research and qualitative analysis, led by...
Listening and Dialogue session August 26
We held our first parish based Listening & Dialogue session on August 26. The gathering broke into small groups to pray & reflect on the question; “What do you think God is asking of us in Australia today”? This is as per the guide at this link here. This is...ROSEMARY GOLDIE LECTURE
“POPE FRANCIS’ EFFORTS FOR REFORM, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH PREPARING FOR ITS PLENARY
COUNCIL.”
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Plenary Council talk by Richard
A copy of the talk I presented at the Masses during August, 11-12, 2018. You may have heard about the Plenary Council and wondered how will it affect me? How will affect my parish? In 5 minutes I hope to give you an sense of what it means to you, your friends &...
Article from Catholic News
Training days were held on August 3 and 4 to equip “local animators”, recognised and selected by their local communities, to facilitate Plenary Council listening and dialogue sessions in coming weeks. It is these sessions, being held nationwide,...