The Plenary Council 2020 is now nearly six months into the second phase of preparation.
More than 100 Aboriginal Catholic educators gathered together for a four-day Aboriginal Teaching Assistants (ATAs) Conference at the start of the Term 4, emphasising continual focus on the Plenary Council theme: “Listen to what the Spirit is saying”.
About 150 Catenian brothers and their wives attended the Western Australian Catenian Association’s annual Commemorative Mass, held at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 3 November 2019.
Six West Australians, together with some 70 people from across the country – including a dozen bishops – will serve on the six Discernment and Writing Groups that will help the Plenary Council build towards its first session in October 2020.
In October 2020, the Church across Australia will gather for the first Plenary Council since the second Vatican Council and in preparation, the Listening and Discernment phase of the Plenary 2020 planning process has officially begun.
The Bishops Commission for the Plenary Council and its Executive Committee have recently met in Adelaide for the first time, 14 months before the Council’s opening session in the South Australian capital.
The Plenary Council 2020 has now moved into its next phase of preparation with the announcement of the National Themes for Discernment that emerged from a historic process of listening to the voices of more than 222,000 people.
The National Centre for Pastoral Research has published the final report of the Listening and Dialogue phase of the Plenary Council, capturing the voices of more than 222,000 people.
The sixth Snapshot Report for the themes of the 2020 Plenary Council – titled “Open to Conversion, Renewal and Reform” – as part of the second phase, Listening and Discernment, was released on Saturday 29 June.