"There's a universal feeling across the church in Australia that we have begun a way of being the church in Australia that we cannot now go back on. So we have launched ourselves into this journey. When we started, the notion of a synodal church hadn't yet emerged so clearly in the thinking of the pope, but that is in fact what we were doing."
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Exclusive interview: Australian Archbishop Costelloe tells Pope Francis ‘The church in Australia is alive.’ (4 November 2022) America
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