John Warhurst

2 weeks ago | eurekastreet.com.au | John Warhurst

Home Vol 35 No 7 What the bishops chose not to say 10 April 2025 Issued under the title “Called to Bring Hope in the Year of Jubilee” the statement references the coincidence of the election with the Holy Year of Jubilee, themed ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. It was produced under the banner of the Bishops Commission for Life, Family and Public Engagement, chaired by the Archbishop of Melbourne. It has some strengths. For instance, the theme of ‘hope’, though underdeveloped in this document, is...

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Warhurst

Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn last August challenged the President of the forthcoming Fifth Plenary Council of Australia (PC), Archbishop Tim Costelloe of Perth, to avoid a breach of faith with the Australian Catholic community. It called on him to open the process of formulating the Instrumentum Laboris, the PC working document, to public scrutiny prior to its completion.

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Warhurst

Robert Fitzgerald has brought a ray of hope for those Catholics despondent about this dark time for the church in Australia.Fitzgerald is ideally-placed to offer advice on the temporal and spiritual future of the church in Australia.He has served Australia on two national commissions — as a long time member of the Productivity Commission, advising the Federal Government on ways of building a more efficient economy and, more aptly, as a member of the Royal Commission into Institutional...

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Warhurst

The huge Australian Catholic community, the largest, the most clerical and the most hierarchical of our Christian churches, has just embarked on a potentially defining internal consultation process, the Plenary Council 2020, to discuss the future of its church.

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Warhurst

Leading church renewal group, Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn, has called on Australian Catholic bishops to release an essential document for consultation with the broader Catholic community before the bishops finalise it and send it to Rome ahead of the historic Plenary Council. The Plenary Council announced last week that work recently began on the development of the instrumentum laboris, the strategic working document central to the Plenary Council process.