“Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention…
Faith Reflections Plenary Council
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Every organisation at some point in its history, in order to thrive, needs to grow and change in light of the needs of the time. We would probably use the…
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The long awaited Fifth Australian Plenary Council, confirmed by the Catholic Bishops Conference in 2016, commences this Sunday, 3 October with the Opening Mass being held at St Mary’s Cathedral in…
Read more Synodality and the Australian Plenary Council Over the last weeks in this series, we have been looking at the issue of synodality. This week we will bring this series to…
Faith Reflections Plenary Council
Read more Ecumenical Councils – Synodality Historically, one of the fundamental exercises of Synodality was the calling of an Ecumenical Council. These were called because of serious crises in the…
Faith Reflections Plenary Council
Read more What is Synodality? There can be a good deal of confusion about synodality in the Church at the moment because it is a rather new idea to Catholics. The word…
Read more Did Synodality disappear in the course of History? The word synodality is coming back into greater use over these years that Pope Francis has been Pope. Even though we had…
Read more Synods in History In the first millennium whenever there was an issue that was critical for the church, the reaction tended to call for a synod. …
Read more Moral Consensus is the aim of the Plenary Council Where has all this recent talk about Synodality come from? It is a word frequently used by Pope Francis…
Read more Synodality and the Plenary Council Synodality is not a word that is familiar to most Catholics. There have been synods all through the history of the Church. They were especially…
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