Daniel Ang, Pastoral Planning Officer for the Diocese of Parramatta, explores the roles and responsibilities at all levels of church life in bringing about a truly collegial church.

The Australian bishops were in Rom during October for their regular five yearly report. This gave Cardinal Pell the chance to get the pope to bless his favourite project in Rome – a beautifully refurbished old religious house which has been turned into a 33 room guest house for paying visitors. Its grand chapel and organ have been richly restored. It can be used for conferences and has a 150 seat auditorium.

The statement of the Australian Catholic Bishops contains inaccuracies and errors of fact evidenced by the documentation relating to the issues concerning myself and a number of Vatican Dicasteries.

This is a lunchtime address given by Bishop Kevin Dowling CSsR, Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa, to a group of leading laity in Cape Town, South Africa on 1 June, 2010.

In just six years, Benedict XVI has shaped the Church through his appointments of key clergy to high office in Rome. The Slavic slant of his Polish predecessor has gone although, as this Tablet analysis reveals, Benedict has not replaced it with a German tendency – but the usual Italian one.

Mike Fallon tells the story of a cardinal from Glasgow in Scotland speaking truth to power on the translation of the missal.

Daniel O’Leary speaks of the challenges of moving through the stages of life’s journey.

Giovanni Franzoni, a former Benedictine abbot, Catholic theologian, and eyewitness to Vatican II, offered these reflections at the 31st Congress of the Asociación de Teólogos y Teólogas Juan XXIII in Madrid in September 2011

David Timbs, in a blog on CathNews (August 23, 2011), discusses the Catholics for Renewal petition to the Pope and Australian Bishops to continue the reforms needed for the next century.