Day 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. Photo: Max Hoh. Day four of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia has taken on a different feel, as Members spend extra time offline,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGS-b7r0g28 Maronite 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 Mass for the Plenary Council, said while the journey to the Council began in 2016, ...

Perth Vicar General Fr Peter Whitely told the assembly his group’s discernment on prayer sparked concerns that “too few young people in our schools have not yet been invited into a close relationship with Jesus”. Photo: Max Hoh. The 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-centr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ4Ylu9Mmi4 As the first general assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia nears the halfway point, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has preached on the power of prayer and trust in the Holy Spirit. Celebrating Mass for the third full day of the Council, Archbishop Fisher’s homily reflected on Luke’s Gospel of the day, when the disciples ask Jesus h...

The 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.

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on 29 September, 2021. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring. Pope 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 mo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_PFLAkYOE On the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, Bishop Shane Mackinlay has said the saint that so loved creation and those living in poverty can inspire the work of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. Bishop Mackinlay, the Bishop of Sandhurst and the Plenary Council’s vice-president, celebrated Mass for the first day of the Council’s program, a day...

Here are some of the highlights of the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on Sunday 3 October, 2021. The Aboriginal Cross stands in front of the lectern for the Book of the Gospels at St Mary’s Cathedral for the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council on Sunday 3 October at St Mary’s Cathedral. Plenary Councils Members Sr Lucy Van Kess...

A new resource developed by the Office of Christian Initiation will be launched next month with the aim of engaging young people in conversation and reflection about the Christian faith.

The issue of Conversion in the Agenda of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia invites Members to think about how we might better accompany one another on the journey of personal and communal conversion which mission in Australia requires.