Communion is one of the three key themes for the Synod on Synodality meeting in Rome this October and next year. The other two themes – mission and participation – are so closely related to communion that one can’t be properly understood without the others.
In early August, the Adelaide Archdiocese will launch a major initiative aimed at fostering the life of parishes, communities and schools.
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The first general assembly of the Plenary Council, meeting October 3-10, was an extraordinary experience. About 300 members of the Catholic community in Australia engaged in a process of communal discernment involving people from almost every sphere of Church life including laity, deacons, bishops and priests.
There’ll be lots of talking at the upcoming Diocesan Assembly – of course! It’d be a dull event without conversation.
For decades now, diocesan assemblies have been part of the repertoire of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, yet there’s something strikingly new about the 2021 Diocesan Assembly.
Adelaide priest and theologian Denis Edwards was a leading scholar internationally in the fields of ecological theology and theology’s dialogue with the natural sciences.
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