The Southern Cross The Southern Cross

Read the latest edition. Latest edition

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

National National

Seeing through the eyes of the wounded

The Fifth Plenary Council of Australia will today spend extra time offline, praying with and reflecting on how the Church can see through the eyes of those who have been abused and reach those on the peripheries.

Get The Southern Cross delivered straight to your inbox twice per month.

Thanks for signing up to the Southern Cross newsletter.

National

Church marks National Apology anniversary

The Catholic Church in Australia has made significant progress in responding to the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse, Archbishop Mark Coleridge said today on the anniversary of the National Apology to survivors and victims.

National

New guidelines for responding to abuse

The Catholic Church is developing new national policy guidelines to strengthen and standardise Church authorities’ responses to historical and contemporary concerns and allegations of abuse of children and vulnerable adults.