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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.
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A national centre for Catholic leadership and governance, involving women in the selection and formation of seminarians, giving lay people input into the placement of parish priests, making diocesan pastoral councils mandatory and maintaining a strong Catholic media…
The Holy See has provided a response to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference on 12 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to the Australian Government.
The Australian Catholic bishops have welcomed a new report which looks into Catholic Church governance practices and possible reforms.
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.
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.
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