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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
WALKING TOGETHER: Archbishop Tim’s Weekly Thoughts [Week 2]
In his second Walking Together – Weekly Thoughts for Reflection from the Synod, Archbishop Costelloe writes we in Australia had a head start in terms of what the Synod is trying to achieve.
Three Australians named to key Synod of Bishops group
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB agreed that Australia had something of a “head start”, with the Plenary Council having invited the People of God to consider significant questions around the Synod’s themes of communion, participation and mission.
Calm Amidst the Storms: The Church’s Radical Reform Series
In his latest podcast, The Tablet Correspondent Christopher Lamb talks to Cardinal Grech about the tensions that have been unleashed by the Synod process.
Bishops elected as Australian delegates to Synod of Bishops
Adelaide Archbishop Patrick O’Regan and Sandhurst Bishop Shane Mackinlay have been elected Australia’s two delegates to the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in 2023. The delegates were confirmed during the recent plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. In March 2020, Pope Francis announced that the theme of the next Synod of Bishops would be “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission”. The Holy Father launched the international journey towards the celebration of the Synod in October this year, with local launches and a diocesan consultation phase commencing soon after. That local engagement will support the preparation of national syntheses, which will be followed by continental meetings. Australia’s bishops will collaborate […]
Australia has helped shape Synod of Bishops
Australian lay woman Susan Pascoe AM, who been assisting in the process of the current Synod of Bishops, says the Church in Australia has been a key supporter of the Synod.
SYNOD 2021 – 2023: Local consultation opens for global Synod of Bishops
Catholics across the world are now being invited to join local consultations about their experience of synodality within the Church as part of a two-year journey towards the next international Synod of Bishops, set for October 2023.
Secretariat begins discussing new synod process with bishops
After issuing revised guidelines for preparing for the next world Synod of Bishops, leaders of the synod’s General Secretariat held online meetings with the presidents and general secretaries of national and regional bishops’ conferences.
