Select Page
by bcadmin | Oct 10, 2021 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Australia, Australian bishops, Australian Royal Commission, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, News, Plenary Council | 0 |
As Pope Francis launched the consultation process for the 2023 Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 9-10, the Catholic Church in Australia was closing out an exercise in the process of “synodality,” which the pope has described as “walking together.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Australia, Australian Royal Commission, Catholic Church, child protection, Church in Oceania, clergy abuse, News, second | 0 |
Plans are moving forward for a new national system in Australia for handling clergy abuse complaints.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Australia, Australian Royal Commission, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Church in Oceania, clerical sexual abuse, News, second | 0 |
Australian Cardinal George Pell knew a priest had been moved decades ago because he had sexually abused children, and should have removed an unstable priest in another parish who was also a suspected pedophile, a government inquiry concluded.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2020 | Appeal, Australia, Australian Royal Commission, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, clergy sex abuse scandals, Lawsuits, News | 0 |
Cardinal George Pell will have his last chance to have his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year old choirboys overturned when his lawyers plead his case to the High Court of Australia March 11-12.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 17, 2020 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Australia, Australian bishops, Australian Royal Commission, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, confession, News, Seal of Confession | 0 |
The president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference is the latest of the country’s senior clerics to push back against legislation to lift the seal of confession for child sexual abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2020 | Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archbishop Peter Comensoli, Australia, Australian bishops, Australian Royal Commission, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, clerical sexual abuse, News | 0 |
A six-person committee charged with reviewing church governance and management is expected to present Australia’s bishops with a plan to overhaul the management of the Church in the country.
Read More
Recent Comments