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Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, who for more than a decade has been a proponent of such a gathering, said he was delighted the first of two sessions will take place in South Australia.
"You want to hope the plenary council is going to do that. "I think Pope Francis is waiting for local churches (for instance the Church in Australia) to ask for it."
""What the plenary council is all about is planning for the future of the Church in this country at a very complex time," Archbishop Coleridge said. He said the plenary council 2020 would have to consider deep questions of culture and the Church. There would have to be genuine and thorough responses to all that had come to light in the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.""
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)Church law prevents the plenary council from being a body of representatives in that parliamentary sense, but that should not be confused with the idea of constructing a body which is representative of the full range of circumstances, views and opinions within the church. The 2020 council must be inclusive to be respected.
In the wake of the clergy sex abuse crisis in the United States and the bishops' post-Dallas efforts, eight bishops believe the time is ripe to dust off the idea of a plenary council – spelled out in canon law – and once more convene such a gathering, "this most solemn common act of teaching and governing" by a nation's bishops.
The 1875 Maynooth Plenary in Ireland would significantly influence the Australasian council.
In 1874, Melbourne became an Archdiocese and Metropolitan See for the new Province of Melbourne which in 1885 had 5 suffragan sees: Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Ballarat and Sandhurst. Councils representing all the churches of Australia would now have to be 'plenary', not 'provincial'.
At the 1885 Plenary Council, significant effort went into planning new dioceses, vicariates apostolic, and ecclesiastical provinces.
BOOK II. THE PEOPLE OF GOD LIBER II. DE POPULO DEI PART II. THE HIERARCHICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH SECTION II. PARTICULAR CHURCHES AND THEIR GROUPINGS TITLE II. GROUPINGS OF PARTICULAR CHURCHES (Cann. 431–459) Chapter III. Particular Councils
Can. 439 §1. A plenary council, that is, one for all the particular churches of the same conference of bishops, is to be celebrated whenever it seems necessary or useful to the conference of bishops, with the approval of the Apostolic See.
Can. 443 §1.-§3.
Can. 443 §4.-§6.
Church law prevents the plenary council from being a body of representatives in that parliamentary sense, but that should not be confused with the idea of constructing a body which is representative of the full range of circumstances, views and opinions within the church. The 2020 council must be inclusive to be respected.