By LiCAS.news
SINGAPORE – Cardinal William Goh has emphasized that lifelong formation and building communities of faith will be the pastoral priorities of the Catholic Church in Singapore over the next few years, describing them as essential “prerequisites for mission.”
“Without communities and formation, we cannot talk about mission,” said the Cardinal during the conclusion of the Singapore Archdiocesan Assembly 2025 in March, Catholic News SG reported.
“Jesus sent the disciples out two by two. With faith communities, we know we will be supported and can overcome more trials,” he added.
The assembly, held at Saint Joseph’s Institution Sports Hall, gathered around 700 priests, religious, and lay delegates from the archdiocese’s 32 parishes, mission schools, church organizations, and ministries.
Delegates gave near-unanimous support to five pastoral priorities proposed by the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council (APC):
- Lifelong formation of clergy and laity for evangelization and mission;
- Building communities of faith, at the parish and across, for and including different groups;
- Enhancing differentiated co-responsibility of clergy and laity;
- Building unity in diversity across all levels;
- Embracing synodality as a way of being Church.
Cardinal Goh, who also serves as president of the APC, said the Church’s mission “to build a vibrant, evangelizing and missionary Church” was affirmed by the survey results and the positive sharing of delegates.
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