Assembly over: where to from here?
A plenary council is a relatively unusual event, so it is not surprising that for many there is considerable curiosity about what happens now. Surely, after a week long ‘conference’ […]
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October 18
October 15
Plenary Reflections #5: Sally FitzGerald
I was one of seven Aboriginal members and one of three Councillors from NATSICC. The Opening Mass in Perth was a particularly powerful expression of the place of First Nations […]
October 14
A champion of Christian values
Seminarians Joe Tran (left) and John Baptist Tran with Audrey Donnithorne at her home in Griffith in 1981.(Photo supplied by Fr Joe Tran) Audrey Donnithorne (1922–2020) Audrey Donnithorne is […]
October 14
Plenary Reflections #4: Brigid Cooney
After a week of online sessions and live-streamed Masses, Archbishop Costelloe, the Council’s president, adjourned the Council’s first assembly and summoned its 278 members to gather again in July 2022 […]
October 9
Plenary Council: Links Between Evangelisation And Culture
Blessed John Paul II encouraged Australia’s first people in his landmark speech in Alice Springs in 1986 This is the text of a Plenary intervention by Archbishop Christopher Prowse on […]