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Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, delivered an address at the Theological-Pastoral Forum for the Synod in Rome on October 16. The forum was held in the auditorium of the Jesuit Generalate, looking at the topic ‘Synodality and the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome’. This is the text of the address.
National survey shows Catholics are online and multicultural
May 23, 2024 · There was a decline of around 206,000 (33%) attenders between 2016 and 2021, with women making up 56 per cent of attenders. Accounting for the rise in Australian population and decline in Catholic population over the five years, the rate of Mass attendance among Australian Catholics was 8.2 per cent, a decline of 3.6 per cent from 2016 to 2021.
Action required to achieve global peace - ACBC MediaBlog
Aug 19, 2024 · Australia’s Catholic bishops say peace is possible if people commit to speaking the truth and redouble efforts to end war. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has released the Social Justice Statement for 2024-25, entitled Truth and Peace: A Gospel Word in a Violent World.. Every year, the bishops seek to make a substantive comment on a key social issue and this year the focus is on ...
New report reveals makeup of Australian Catholic population
They included the number of Catholics, which fell from around 5.3 million in 2016 to under 5.1 million in 2021. Catholics made up 22.6 per cent of the population in 2016; they represented 20 per cent of the population in 2021. “We have seen a broad shift away from religious identification in Australian society, so those figures were not a ...
Bishops Conference launches new website - ACBC MediaBlog
Nov 9, 2022 · The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has launched a new website – with the address catholic.au – bringing together the catholic.org.au and catholicaustralia.com.au websites. The site, known as Catholic Australia, was unveiled during the Bishops Conference’s plenary meeting in Sydney this week. Speaking at the plenary meeting, Bishop Delegate for Media Archbishop Patrick O’Regan ...
Bishops formally approve Plenary Council acts, decrees
One thought on “ Bishops formally approve Plenary Council acts, decrees ” Peter Johnstone 16 November 2022 at 4:37 pm. The real test for the Plenary Council is implementation. The Plenary Council affirmed (Decree 7) that “governance in the Catholic Church should be exercised in a synodal manner, with the appropriate participation of …
Church leaders in Australia welcome Synod working document
Jun 21, 2023 · On Tuesday evening, the Secretariat of the Synod published the Instrumentum Laboris, or working document, for the first session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops – commonly referred to as the Synod on Synodality. The first session will take place this October; the second and final session is scheduled for October 2024.
Australian synthesis for global Synod of Bishops published
The Australian synthesis, which emerged from a nine-month process that began in October 2021, draws from the diocesan consultation phase for the Synod of Bishops. Earlier this year, Australian dioceses published a report on the findings of their local consultation – a process that every diocese around the world undertook. The National Centre ...
Catholics reminded to preach the Gospel always, everywhere
Catholics are being urged to “preach all the Gospel, to all the world, all the time” and to consider encounter, discipleship and mission from their Catholic foundations in a new document from the Bishops Commission for Evangelisation, Laity and Ministry. The document, titled Evangelisation, offers a scriptural and theological reflection on ...
Australian reflections on Synod’s working document published
Almost 80 groups from across Australia, comprising a total of about 750 people, took up the invitation to reflect on the Working Document for the Continental Stage, which was published in October. Bishops conferences around the world are leading similar processes, promoting ongoing reflection in anticipation of the two Synod of Bishops ...