Editorial September 2023 Diocesan Pastoral Councils – the most appropriate permanent structure for implementing synodality The Diocesan Pastoral Council (DPC) is the permanent consultative body, established by the diocesan bishop and acting under his authority, which studies and weighs up those matters which affect the pastoral works of the diocese and proposes pastoral recommendations (c.… Continue reading Newsletter Editorial – September 2023

Editorial July 2023 Instrumentum Laboris: hopes and fears The Second Vatican Council rescued the church from post-Reformation institutional defensiveness and its triumphalist isolation from the modern world by redefining it as the People of God.  As a people, its mission was to be the sign of God’s saving action in human history. This was to… Continue reading Editorial July 2023