
Decrees ready for Rome
During the second assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, more than 35 motions were put to a consultative and a deliberative vote.
During the second assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, more than 35 motions were put to a consultative and a deliberative vote.
After more than four years of discernment, the Fifth Plenary Council passed 35 motions aimed at helping to make the Church in Australia to be more missionary and Christ-centred.
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The Members of the Plenary Council who are meeting in Sydney this week spent yesterday afternoon working together to reconsider a pair of motions that were not passed earlier in the day.
As Wednesday’s proceedings came to a close, Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were invited to remember the “saving unity” to which the Church is called.
Members of the Plenary Council are being invited to spend additional time to discern after two motions did not achieve a qualified majority in voting that has taken place over the past 24 hours.
Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were encouraged on Tuesday evening to embrace the “new and demanding urgency” of ecumenism.
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