Australia s plenary council: Listening brings liberation, archbishop says
Jun 3, 2021 catholic news service
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, is seen during the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in this Oct. 14, 2015, file photo. Archbishop Coleridge said the 2015 synod was a lightbulb moment for him when he came to understand the synodal process Pope Francis wants to follow. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)
Pope Francis insists synodality requires listening and not only on the part of people in the pews.
ROME Pope Francis insists “synodality” requires listening and not only on the part of people in the pews.
But it is not easy, said Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the bishops’ conference of Australia, which will hold the first assembly of its plenary council in October.
Pope Francis has no one in his small circle of advisors, known as the Council of Cardinals, who is from Oceania.
While the other continents have a seat in the seven-member kitchen cabinet or C7, Oceania s chair has been empty since October 2018. That s when the pope thanked Australian Cardinal George Pell for his services and removed him from the group.
There are three cardinals from Oceania who are all still under the age of 80 that could have easily taken the place of Pell John Dew of New Zealand, John Ribat of Papua New Guinea and Soane Patita Mafi of Tonga.
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Philip Wilson, former Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, dies aged 70
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Former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson has died at the age of 70.
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The Adelaide Archdiocese said while he had suffered ill health, his death was sudden
Emeritus Archbishop Wilson went through a high-profile court case in 2018, before his conviction was overturned
Church leaders led tributes to the former Adelaide archbishop
Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge said on Twitter that Emeritus Archbishop Wilson had died unexpectedly on Sunday afternoon.
In 2018, Emeritus Archbishop Wilson became the highest-ranking Catholic in the world to be convicted with concealing child sex abuse, over paedophile priest Jim Fletcher s crimes in the Hunter Valley in the 1970s.