This is Part 2 of the article by Peter Wilkinson examining the 1905 Third Australian Plenary Council. Part 1 appeared in the Spring 2019 edition. It is also the sixth in the series looking at the particular (provincial and plenary) councils of the Catholic Church held in Australia between 1844 and 1937.
This is an edited version of a talk by Danny Gilbert, Co-Chair Cape York Partnership at the Garma Festival 2019 on Constitutional reform for the inclusion of Aboriginal people. The full talk can be viewed at: https://tinyurl.com/y5xkaxcm
Synodality is the way Pope Francis is shaping a new conversation in the Church writes Father Myron Pereira SJ who is a media consultant based in Mumbai, India. This article looks at how this might work at the Amazon Synod. Does it have implications for the Australian Plenary? Reprinted with permission from La Croix International […]
Richard Francis writes about the impact of the loss of language, land and culture in Indigenous Australia. He then compares this to the experience of loss in Catholic Australia and asks what can we learn from Indigenous sisters and brothers.
John Ryan, retired Sandhurst priest, reflects on the paradox of life, beauty, sex and sin.
