AUSTRALIAN CONFRATERNITY

OF CATHOLIC CLERGY (ACCC)

 The ACCC is a private, voluntary and fraternal association of Catholic clerics of the Dioceses of Australia constituted in 1987 under statutes in conforming with the 1983 Code of Canon Law under Canon 278,1, “Secular clergy have the right of association with others for the achievement of purposes befitting the clerical state.”

•    give glory and honour to the Most Blessed Trinity

•    assist the eternal salvation and holiness of members

•    foster unity among Catholic priests and deacons with the bishops in loyalty to the Supreme Magisterium

•    encourage faithfulness to priestly life and ministry

•   assist bishops, priests, and deacons in the fulfilment of their ministry of teaching, sanctifying, and ruling.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) elects office-bearers.  Motions presented to the AGM shall be in total accord with the Code of Canon Law, with the Magisterium and the faith and morals of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church, and in utter obedience to and reflecting respect for and reverence toward the authority, position and person of the Supreme Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ and Bishop of Rome, and the Bishops teaching in union with him.

Priest or deacon associate membership is open to priests and deacons who are members of religious institutes or secular institutes.

Lay associate members support the clerical association in its objectives and subscribe to the journal.

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