Our Members

CAC members are diverse – promoting innovative activities within church structures, independently running formation programs, conducting creative liturgies, advocating for change and implementation of synodality in dioceses, undertaking case studies, etc. A common feature is that each group develops a way of operating and a system that meets the wishes of the people in it. All are action based.

Members’ recent activities included:

Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn's careful work drafting synodality documents and a statement of requirements for the next episcopal appointment — patient, practical groundwork being built in a genuinely difficult diocesan context.

Concerned Catholics Tasmania gathering regionally to renew their vision and mission, and to think through what Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas might open up for them.

Women's Wisdom and the Church continue to support women preaching across parishes, with an Ecumenical Evensong for the Feast of St Phoebe bringing that work into public, shared worship.

Sense of the Faithful's case studies across four dioceses - with Brisbane next - are building something genuinely valuable for the wider Church once synthesised.

WATAC's growing, younger membership and their ongoing Sacred Conversations show real vitality.

SA Catholics for an Evolving Church has voting members active in the Diocesan Synod, a book club working through Halík, and discussion groups running through Lent and Advent — formation happening in the ordinary rhythm of the year.

VOCAL had input to the Sydney Synod (It was sidelined). It has a growing relationship with Concerned Lay Catholics Canada and works with the Australian Jesuit province on their Synodality Formation initiative.

Others - Be The Change Aotearoa, Concerned Catholics Wollongong, Welcoming Christian Community, Rainbow Catholics Interagency for Mission, and Cardijn Workers Australia – are each carrying forward, in their own way, a faith that insists on welcome, dignity, and justice.

Much of this work is done in genuinely difficult circumstances - bishops uninterested in synodality, dioceses resistant to change, the ordinary exhaustion of sustaining a volunteer-led movement over years. It matters to say plainly: they are not doing this alone. Solidarity across this network offers the knowledge that when one group is pushing against a closed door, others have pushed too, and found ways through, or found each other in the pushing.