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Plenary Council Second Assembly: Council re-imagines the Church through a missionary lens
Archbishop Costelloe encouraged Members to believe that what the Archangel Gabriel said to the Blessed Virgin Mary is true for them today: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow.”
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Second Assembly ends on high note
Plenary Council Members have celebrated the passage of almost all motions contained in the Motions and Amendments document that formed the second assembly’s agenda on Friday 8 July.
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Action on ecology, Church Governance reform gets tick of approval
Plenary Council Members have on Thursday said ecological conversion is “both personal and communal”, and that there was “urgent need for action” from Catholic entities through the development of, or alignment with, Laudato Si’ Action Plans inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical letter of the same name. Photo: Fiona Basile/ACBC
Plenary Council Members
have passed all six motions they consid...
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Virgin Mary’s Protection invoked
In his homily for the votive Mass Friday 8 July at the Second Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council, Ballarat Bishop Paul Bird said the mother of Jesus is with us, as she was with those first disciples. Photo: Fiona Basile/ACBC.
Members
of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia should persevere in their prayers to
the Mother of God, Bishop Paul Bird CSsR said on Friday morning.
The
Bisho...
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Blessed Peter To Rot hailed as model of fidelity
Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand, Cardinal John Dew gave the homily at the Mass on Thursday 7 July, for the Second Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral. Photo: Fiona Basile/ACBC.
Those gathered for the
Fifth Plenary Council of Australia are following in the footsteps of the early
Christians, Cardinal John Dew said at Mass on Thursday evening.
The Arc...
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Day 5 Highlights
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Plenary Council Second Assembly: Members hear to call to mission and conversion
Plenary Council Members have on Thursday 7 July been reflecting on four parts of the Motions and Amendments document on Thursday, assisted by input from the theological advisors to the Council. Photo: Fiona Basile/ACBC.
After a change to the program, Plenary
Council Members have been reflecting on four parts of the Motions
and Amendments document on Thursday, assisted by input from the theo...
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Members of Plenary Council Pray for Christian Unity
Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were encouraged on Tuesday evening to embrace the “new and demanding urgency” of ecumenism.
Ukraine front and centre at Second Assembly Mass
The first full day of proceedings of the Second Assembly concluded with a votive Mass of the Holy Spirit at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated according to the Ukrainian Rite by Bishop Mykola Bychok CSsr.
