Plenary
President gives opening address to second council assembly
At the Council’s opening session on Monday morning, the Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were invited to carry “a deep consciousness of ... Read More
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, ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Plenary Reflections #3: John Woods
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 ... Read More
Plenary reflections #2: John Warhurst
Steps towards the real test of synodality The First Assembly of the Plenary Council raises questions including:. What direction are we heading? What is our ... Read More
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 ... Read More