Fiji archbishop warns against ‘new colonial forces’ in Pacific nation
Fiji’s archbishop is warning that “new colonial forces” are moving into the Pacific Island nation as its 52nd anniversary of independence from Great Britain.
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by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Archbishop Peter Loy Chong, Church in Oceania, colonialism, Fiji, lead, News | 0 |
Fiji’s archbishop is warning that “new colonial forces” are moving into the Pacific Island nation as its 52nd anniversary of independence from Great Britain.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Archbishop Peter Comensoli, archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in Oceania, faith and politics, faith and sports, lead, Melbourne, News, Religious Freedom, sports, Victoria | 0 |
In an editorial, Melbourne’s archbishop accused the top political figure in the Australian state of Victoria of stirring up a “spirit of divisiveness” by accusing a local church of bigotry.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 6, 2022 | Archbishop Peter Comensoli, archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia, Church in Oceania, faith and sports, lead, Melbourne, News, Religious Freedom, sports, Victoria | 0 |
After an executive of a local Australian football club was forced to step down due to his traditional Christian beliefs, the Archbishop of Melbourne said he might have to find a new team to support.
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Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge will conduct an investigation into retired Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, using a process established by Pope Francis in 2019.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Archbishop Peter Comensoli, Australia, Australian bishops, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in Oceania, News, Transgender | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Australia have released guidelines for the country’s almost 2,000 Catholic schools on gender, urging school leaders to resist pressure to adopt the “dominant rhetoric around gender.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Australia, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, euthanasia, News | 0 |
The Australian Parliament is considering legislation that would allow the country’s two territories to pass their own laws, paving the way for legalizing euthanasia.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Australia, Church in Oceania, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
A new bill was introduced in the Australian Parliament on Monday seeking to lift a 25-year ban on doctor-assisted dying in two territories.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2022 | Australia, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, Natural Family Planning, News, saints and martyrs | 0 |
An Australian couple who pioneered one of the world’s most successful natural fertility methods are being celebrated as potential saints.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 18, 2022 | archdiocese of Melbourne, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, clerical sex abuse, Lawsuit, News | 0 |
Australian Cardinal George Pell and the Archdiocese of Melbourne are being sued by the father of a choirboy that the former Vatican official was accused of molesting, resulting in his imprisonment in 2018.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Church in Oceania, Lawsuit, News | 0 |
The father of a deceased former choirboy filed a lawsuit against Cardinal George Pell and the Catholic Church in an Australian court on Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, New Zealand, News | 0 |
Saying they feel anguish that the Holy Land continues to be riled in “turmoil, bloodshed and fear,” New Zealand’s Catholic bishops called for a renewed effort to achieve lasting peace for “ordinary Palestinian peoples.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Australia, Australian bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, News, Plenary Council, synodality | 0 |
he Second Assembly of Australia’s Plenary Council prepared to close July 8, passing almost all of the motions in its guiding document including a revised version of the section on the equal dignity of women and men in the Catholic Church.
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