Australian Plenary Council Proposals Call for Lay Homilies Amid Evangelization Push

The Pillar ^ | 5/31/22

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Draft proposals circulated by officials of a plenary council underway in Australia include a call to increase lay participation in Church life and governance, in part by petitioning the Vatican to allow lay people to preach the homily in Mass.

Proposed measures also include a call to more frequent use of a communal form of the sacrament of penance, despite strict canonical limitations of its use.

If adopted by the plenary council, those proposals would see the Church in Australia asking the Vatican for dispensations from canon law governing the liturgical discipline of the universal Latin Church.

The proposals are contained in “Plenary Council Framework for Motions,” a document from by the council’s drafting committee, written for circulation this week among the council’s membership ahead of its second general assembly, to be held July 4-9.

The text contains draft motions to be considered for a vote, drawn from the discussion at previous gatherings of the council’s lay and clerical participants.

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If adopted by the plenary council, those proposals would see the Church in Australia asking the Vatican for dispensations from canon law governing the liturgical discipline of the universal Latin Church.

Bergoglio likes nothing better than violating canon law.

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Stupid idea.