Plenary Matters S6 Ep 6: Fully alive - naming vulnerability and truth

Fresh from her meeting with Pope Francis, Associate Professor Maeve Heaney VDMF joined Geraldine at the Spiritual Care Australia conference to speak about holding together tension in the church, and how music has helped her to name experiences of vulnerability through illness. Two years on from Australia’s Plenary Council, and in the wake of Francis’ ‘no’ to women’s ordination to the diaconate during his CBS interview, Maeve thinks we need to find ways truthfully and creatively to ‘untie the knot’ between ordination and authority in the church. Mentioned in the episode: Maeve's meeting with Pope Francis as part of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT) Brisbane and Sydney forums on synodality with synod delegate and Jesuit Fr Orobator Papal nuncio to US Cardinal Christophe Pierre's address, 'Becoming a universal church' International theologian Dr Myriam Wijlen's lectures in Sydney and Melbourne in August, and in Brisbane at Holy Spirit Seminary on 24 July. Get in touch via the Plenary Matters Facebook page!