Plenary Matters S4 Ep 6: An Australian view of the global synod

Australia’s Plenary Council set the scene for the global synod as onlookers at home and in Rome wondered if the Australian church would emerge intact. Now it’s the turn of some of our seasoned Council members, Sr Clare Condon, Emeritus Professor John Warhurst and Francis Sullivan to reflect on their disappointments and hopes in a synodal church.

Both the working document for the synod and the list of people who will participate in the meetings in Rome have the makings of a meeting like no other in church history. But will the restless movement that we are invited to join lead to a church that is still recognisably Catholic? Can diversity hold us together in the end?

Further reading:

• Instrumentum Laboris (Working document) for the first assembly of the Synod
• Massimo Faggioli’s piece in La Croix, ‘What the list of Synod members tells us about the current state of the Church’
• Reflections on the working document by Fr Bill Uren SJ and John Warhurst in Eureka Street

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