Welcome to the Plenary Council reading resources! We will provide links to relevant articles and books that we hope will be helpful resources for you to journey together. Learning about topics related to Church, mission, discernment, listening and synodality and more.

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Process

• Plenary Council 3-year timeline
• Parish Guide to Listening and Dialogue Process
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter for Adults, Small Groups
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter for Youth and Young People
• Yarning Circle Resource
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Arabic
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Chinese
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Croatian
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Italian
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Korean
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Malayalam
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Spanish
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Tagalog
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Tamil
• Listening and Dialogue Encounter — Vietnamese
• Broken Bay Diocese — Listening and Dialogue Guide
• Broken Bay Diocese — Local Animator and Facilitator Notes
• Parramatta Diocese — Small Group Session Booklet

The Plenary Council team thanks the Diocese of Parramatta and the Archdiocese of Melbourne for providing versions of the Listening and Dialogue Encounter in languages other than English.

Theology

• Talk Theology, Edition 12 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• Talk Theology, Edition 11 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• Talk Theology, Edition 10 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• Talk Theology, Edition 9 — by Archbishop Christopher Prowse of Canberra and Goulburn
• Talk Theology, Edition 8 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• Talk Theology, Edition 7 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• Talk Theology, Edition 6 — by Teresa Brierley, Vice Chancellor Pastoral Ministries, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
• Plenary Council participation and reception: Synodality and Discerning the Sensus Fidelium by Fr Ormond Rush, November 2017.
• Plenary Council and the Diocese of Broken Bay by Daniel Ang, published in Broken Bay News, February 2018.
• Talk Theology, Edition 5 — by Sr Mary Fermio RSJ and Sr Audrey Thomson RSJ
• Talk Theology, Edition 4 — by Daniel Ang, Plenary Council Executive Committee and Diocese of Broken Bay
• Talk Theology, Edition 3 — by
• Talk Theology, Edition 2 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC
• TalkTheology, Edition 1 — by Fr Noel Connolly SSC, from the first edition of the Plenary Council e-newsletter, PlenaryPost

History

• Catholic Church 2020 Plenary Council by Peter Wilkinson, published in The Swag 2017.
• Historical Series: 1844 First Australian Provincial Council, by Peter Wilkinson published in The Swag 2017