Catholic author Dr Paul Collins speaking on the October 2020 Plenary Council
7:30pm
Monday, 10 February 2020
Prouille School Hall
5 Water Street Wahroonga
Paul Collins will discuss the upcoming Plenary Council (the first in Australia since 1937) taking into account the Pope Francis emphasis on a "synodal" type of governance used in the New Testament and the early church.
Paul will speak about the Council in a wider social context and on the Plenary Council emphasis on evangelisation.
Paul is the author of fourteen books on topics ranging from belief, the Church and the Papacy, to Ecology and Australian history (even a book on the history of Australian Bushfires). He has a master's degree in theology from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in History from the Australian National University. He has taught church history and theology in Australia, the United States and in Pacific countries and worked as a Catholic parish priest in Sydney and Hobart. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University and the Ethel Hayton Visiting Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Wollongong. He has written for many Australian newspapers and magazines as well as for The Tablet, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States and for several Catholic magazines in Germany. He was, for a time, Editor of Religious Programs at the ABC.
As the year progresses, Holy Name Parish Wahroonga will be examining themes for the Plenary Council and asking, “What might these mean for a parish community?” This discussion by Paul Collins will be invaluable help for that thinking.
www.paulcollinscatholicwriter.com.au