By Fiona Basile, Archdiocese of Melbourne 23-year-old Jonathan Antony is participating in the daily online sessions in Perth, as he is preparing to marry fiancé Miriam McKenna in just a few weeks. Photo: Supplied. Jonathan Antony from Melton, from Melbourne's outer west, is one of the 17 members representing the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. The 23-year-old is participating in...

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...

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.

Members gather for the first sessions on Monday 4 October. Photo: Max Hoh. Vicar General Fr Peter Whitely listens to Archbishop Costelloe SDB give his opening adddress. Photo: Max Hoh. Damian Walsh, Fr George Kolodziej SDS, Daniel Lynch and Gemma Thomson gather to discuss the days events. Photo: Max Hoh. Bishop Don Sproxton is interviewed by Communications Office journalist Eric M...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe during his Homily for the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia on Sunday 3 October at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth. Below is the homily of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe for the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia on Sunday 3 October 2021 at St Mary's Cathedral. On 21 November 1964, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, kn...

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 historic Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia will be celebrated by Plenary Council President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB at Perth’s St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 3 October at 11am WST. The Mass will officially open the nine-month journey of the two Council Assemblies. Photos: Ron Tan/Jamie O'Brien After nearly five years of planning and 84 years since t...

Some of the country’s leading Catholic thinkers have been engaged to support the members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia when they gather for the First General Assembly early next month.