Explaining the conclave process
The conclave to elect the 267th pope will begin on Wednesday May 7 and will take place in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
The conclave to elect the 267th pope will begin on Wednesday May 7 and will take place in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
The Pope’s funeral will be held at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Saturday at 10am local time (5.30pm ACT) and is expected to last about two and a half hours.
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Two young Catholic women from Adelaide joined 140 delegates at the Talitha Kum General Assembly in Rome in May to forge a five-year plan to combat modern slavery.
Outback SA priest Fr Paul Crotty is one of two priests selected by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference currently attending a global gathering at the Vatican.
As a young Catholic girl growing up in suburban Adelaide, one of my favourite things about having a religious upbringing was getting to read books about saints like Bernadette of Lourdes and the children of Fatima.
All roads lead to Rome, they say. And from all the corners of the earth we came – Australia (just me), Macau, the Philippines, Latin America, United States, Canada, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Western Europe and Rome itself – to learn about ‘covering Catholicism in the age of Francis’.
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