International
Action must follow whatever happens at the Summit on the Protection of Minors being held at the Vatican this week, says Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Mark Coleridge who is in Rome for the important meeting of bishops from around the world.
International
A special meeting of the presidents of bishops’ conferences in Rome next month, convened by Pope Francis to discuss child sexual abuse, will include a penitential liturgy and testimonies of survivors.
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A change in mindset, as well as management, is required if the Catholic Church is to regain credibility following the clerical sex abuse crisis, Pope Francis told US bishops this month.
The lucrative supply of weapons to Muslim countries which is sanctioned and encouraged by Western and Russian governments has been described as “institutionalised gun-running on an extraordinary scale” by Australian priest Fr Robert McCulloch.
Clerical sexual abuse, women in Church leadership, gender, sexuality and ‘synodality’ formed the basis of the final document released following the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment last month.<br />
Sr Elena Marie Piteo has covered a lot of ground since embarking on her journey to a religious vocation with the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia in Nashville.
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