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When the Diocese of Parramatta first established its network of Deanery Pastoral Councils in 2017, the vision was, in many ways, ahead of its time....
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The General Secretariat of the Synod today released the Final Report of Study Group No. 6 on the review, from a synodal and missionary perspective, of the documents on relations between bishops, consecrated life, and ecclesial associations...
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Dr D'Cunha is right that clericalism is a wound, that it has cost the Church credibility it may not recover in my lifetime, and that several of her practical proposals are overdue. I want to say that plainly before I say the rest, because the rest is a serious...
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More than 200 people packed St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta, on 26 August to hear Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Piqué, both long-time Vatican journalists, deliver their public lecture, From Francis to Leo: An Insider’s Account of an Historic Papal Transition....
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Clericalism and synodality are opposites: ending clerical privilege, unpaid domestic servitude and closed-door governance, and reclaiming the baptismal dignity of the laity, is the structural cleansing a synodal Church requires....
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It takes the final document from the historic XVI Synod of Bishops and uses good leadership theory and practice to show practical ways of bringing synodality to life....
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To understand Study Group 9, you have to go back to the Synod on Synodality itself — the two-session gathering that Pope Francis convened to ask a deceptively simple question: how should the whole Church, not just her bishops, walk together in discerning her mission?...
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It is this fact that healthcare is someone caring for another that sets the context for the appropriate use of technology in caring for the needs of the person who seeks care....
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Like the Kolo dance, synodality offers a means of socialization, but in the life of the church. Both require a shift from individual performance to collective harmony....