Catholic Community

Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) Website

The Australian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) recognises that all Christ’s faithful have “the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful.” (Canon 212 §3)

‘Be the Change’ New Zealand

We are a group of Catholic women and men committed to equality in the Catholic Church. We are motivated by a sense of responsibility to Be the Change. In a safe, supportive, nourishing, hope-filled space we are journeying towards a radical new, inclusive model of RC Church that reflects God’s wondrous wholeness and faithfulness to the Gospel message.

Cardijn Community website

Works to promote the spirituality and methodology of Joseph Cardijn

Catholics for Renewal website

Catholics for Renewal seeks to meet our responsibilities for the state of the Church in accordance with Christ’s teachings as reflected in the mandate of Vatican II: “The Church or people of God . . . fosters and takes to itself, insofar as they are good, the ability, riches and customs in which the genius of each people expresses itself.” (Lumen Gentium 13) “Christ’s faithful have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred pastors their views on matters which concern the good of the church.” (Canon 212, 3)

Catholics Moving Forward Shoalhaven

Catholics Moving Forward is based in the Shoalhaven area of NSW

Communities of the Way

As followers of Christ in the Catholic tradition, we seek to build the Kingdom by reading the signs of the times in the light of Vatican II. We seek to live out this vision in small Christian Communities, which focus on life and experience, through study, reflection, prayer, dialogue and action.

Concerned Catholics Tasmania website

We are a group of Catholics committed to renewal and reform in our Church. We seek to collaborate with our Archbishop, our priests and the faithful in working towards a more inclusive, welcoming and collaborative church empowered by the spirit of synodality that Pope Francis and the Plenary Council 2020/2021 are promoting. We are committed to finding a voice for the laity and sharing our commitment to our Baptismal call and to our Church, in this time and in our state of Tasmania.

Concerned Catholics Wagga Wagga

The organisation is based on the Gospels, is prayerful, is nonaggressive and seeks a church that is transparent, accountable, inclusive with acceptable standards of good governance.

Concerned Catholics Wollongong

CCWollongong is a group of Catholics whose activities are focused on Sexual Abuse in Church and responses, Acceptance of the Gay Community, Women – involvement and being part of the decision making of the Church, Clericalism, the Plenary Council and married priests

Cyber Christian Community website

CCC aims to inform members of contemporary happenings, and encourage a relevant practice of contemplation and action, especially with regards to human and environmental justice. Our gift to Christianity in the Catholic tradition is to bring a contemporary understanding to the message of Jesus. This charism is coupled with resilience and perseverance. We know that the future of Catholicism resides not in calcified institutionalism but in the journey of the desert and all that entails.

For the Innocents website

We respond to the suffering caused by religious sexual abuse of victims and survivors - “The Innocents”

Rainbow Catholics Interagency for Ministry weebsite

We are a pastoral interagency supporting pastoral worker, pastoral leaders and pastoral organizers in the Australian Catholic church. Affirmed by our Christian faith and supported by Catholic Social Teaching, the primary purpose of the Rainbow Catholics InterAgency for Ministry is to build relationships, to promote dialogue, to pray and to educate the Catholic community in Australia. We work to advocate for recognition of the full equality and for justice with LGBTIQ Catholics, their families and friends in the Catholic Church and in our larger community.

Sense of the Faithful Website

Where is the Australian Church heading after the Plenary Council, and how does this fit with processes of change in the global Church? A group of parishes from Melbourne and beyond

South Australian Catholics for an Evolving Church website

SACEC is a diverse group of Adelaide Catholics who share a love, care, concern and hope for our Church in the Archdiocese. We come together, under the heading SA Catholics for an Evolving Church to reflect on the world, the Church, the Gospel and the spiritual life of our people.

VOCAL - Voices of Australian Catholic Laity

We strive to be a Church actively reading the signs of the times, proclaiming Gospel values for contemporary life. Our natural orientation is towards a Church and a broader community that is creating a better world, one where people on the margins are afforded equality in dignity, justice and fairness.

WATAC - Women and the Australian Church website

WATAC commenced in 1984 as a national project of the Religious women and men of Australia. While WATAC is Catholic by origin, it is ecumenical by membership and is committed to working with other churches and faiths. The vision: to model new ways of being church, based on a “discipleship of equals”.

Welcoming Christian Community

Given the clericalism, abuse, discrimination and lack of proper governance within the Catholic Church, in 2011 Fr Greg Reynolds, a priest of the Melbourne Archdiocese for 31 years, set up a new community, called Inclusive Catholics to embrace those disillusioned with institutional churches. In this community all are welcome without question, especially lapsed Catholics as well as survivors of clerical abuse, divorcees, those who support women’s ordination and LGBTIQA+ people.

WWITCH - Women’s Wisdom in the Church

We aim to raise awareness of Women’s wisdom, experience and skills in the Australian Church and to increase the opportunities for Women to demonstrate these in the Church.