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Australia’s senior cleric lauds report calling for Church governance by lay womenAustralia's bishops commissioned a task force, which included liberal theologian Massimo Faggioli among its international advisors, and the group produced a report called, 'The Light from the Southern Cross.' Faggioli believes the report should form the basis of a worldwide reform of the Church.AUSTRALIA, 4 March, 20201 (Famlily Life International) – An Australian document designed to undermine orthodox Catholicism may soon become the model for governance of the universal Church. The document is being hailed by head of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Mark Coleridge, and is being promulgated...

Plenary Council Member: 'We're in the birth pangs of a new Church in Australia'A "rite of blessing" for same-sex couples and for the divorced and remarried was proposed at the conclusion of Brisbane Assembly 2019. The Brisbane Assembly was run by the archdiocese of Brisbane, and about 400 people from across the archdiocese and various Catholic agencies attended the two-day event. It was billed as a process of "communal discernment" in preparation for the 2020 Plenary Council in Australia. The archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, was in the front row of the auditorium when the proposal was displayed on large...