The Record Magazine, Issue 33, October 2021 Welcome to Issue 33 of The Record Magazine. As we go to print, we are eagerly awaiting the commencement of the First Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. It is a life-changing moment for the Church in Australia and my team and I are honoured to be reporting first hand of its outcomes over the next few weeks and months. In ...

In an exclusive interview with The Record, Prensentation Sister Emmanuel Crocetti PBVM expressed how entering religious life has blessed her abundantly.

“I had plenty of time to think about it after all my studies. After my dad’s death, I spent two years with mum in Bunbury housekeeping at the Cathedral Presbytery.

“I just had that ‘feeling’ that I wanted to become a Sister, like my sisters,” she joked

Discovering Jesus from 2,000 years ago into the here and now of today was the mission that Peter Mitchell, founder of the Make Jesus Real resource, took on when he authored the 176-paged interactive resource for the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office.

A key component of the Plenary Council’s assemblies will help members to consider the 16 questions that make up the Council agenda.
Each day, some of those questions will be the focus of small group discernment, with about 10 members engaging in what is known as “spiritual conversations”. What are spiritual conversations? And how do they work?
Br Ian Cribb SJ, who led a retreat for the Australian Bishops in 2019, answers some questions about how the spiritual conversations process will benefit the Plenary Council Members as they discern the questions before them.

At the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe emphasised that the Lord is inviting us to reflect deeply and courageously on how we can better, as individuals and as communities of faith, be this living image of the life-giving God who, in Christ, is always seeking to be present and active in our world.

The months between the first and second general assemblies of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia are a time for “prayer, reflection, maturation and development”, according to a concluding statement from the first assembly.

Welcome to the Issue 32 of The Record Magazine. The curent Voluntary Assisted Dying debate has created a new world order for Western Australia. On 23 June, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe published a four-page Pastoral Letter in which he expressed his thoughts and concerns regarding the new legislation. We publish the Pastoral Letter in full from page four to seven. We speak with LJ Go...

The eRecord has taken out the award for Best Online Publication at this year’s Australasian Catholic Press Awards. The awards were held on Wednesday 15 September via ZOOM after the annual ACPA Conference was cancelled for the second year due to COVID-19 state lockdowns. The eRecord has taken out the award for Best Online Publication at this year’s Australasian Catholic Press Awards. Imag...

In this exclusive story as part of the lead up to the First Assembly of the Plenary Council, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President Archbishop Mark Coleridge from Brisbane has this week given a historical recount of the events that led to the calling of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia.

The curent Voluntary Assisted Dying debate has created a
new world order for Western Australia. On 23 June, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe published a four page
Pastoral Letter in which he expressed his thoughts
and concerns regarding the new legislation.