Members reflect on unique and challenging week
Four of the Adelaide Archdiocese's lay members of the Plenary Council reflect on their experience of the first assembly, held online due to COVID border restrictions.
Four of the Adelaide Archdiocese's lay members of the Plenary Council reflect on their experience of the first assembly, held online due to COVID border restrictions.
The importance of opening up a dialogue and the need for the laity to hold more leadership positions were some of the insights of Bishop Bill Morris when he discussed the future for the Church in Australia at a packed Cross Road Forum last month.
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Role of the laity
Centacare Catholic Family Services deputy director and Chancellor of the Archdiocese, PAULINE CONNELLY was one of the guest speakers featured in St Ignatius parish’s Lenten forums. She spoke passionately about the role of the laity in the Church in Australia and her hopes for the future.
With just three weeks to go until the close of the Listening and Dialogue phase, the Plenary Council is expecting a flood of responses from people across the country.
Greater involvement of lay people in decision making, the role of women in the Church, and making the Mass and other activities more ‘attractive and meaningful’ were some of the topics raised at a community forum hosted by the Blackwood parish on October 29.
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