The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sexual abuse scandals over the last three decades.An independent inquiry on Tuesday said it had concluded there were about 216,000 victims

New South WalesBid by Catholic church to stop child sexual abuse case rejected by NSW supreme courtChurch tried to stop a woman from suing, despite its own records showing it

A Catholic lobby group says Hobart Archbishop Julian Porteous should be reassuring priests who have reservations about COVID-19 vaccines that they can be vaccinated in good conscience, rather than asking

Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In a letter to the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the President of the Australian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge of Brisbane, expressed his deep

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — A native of Czechoslovakia who fled persecution by that country’s communist regime and served in Minnesota for nearly 30 years before being appointed a bishop

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SYDNEY (CNS) — With the majority of Australia’s most populous state in lockdown as it grapples with an outbreak of the delta variant of the coronavirus, a Catholic social services

Australian politicsCatholic doctors urged to back George Christensen’s ‘nonsensical’ abortion billCatholic Medical Association asks members to support bill critics say will only inflict harm Catholic doctors have been asked to

The GLP Needs Your Help It is easier than ever for advocacy groups to spread disinformation on pressing science issues, such as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. No, vaccines are not harmful.

By Vatican News Service The Catholic Church of Australia has identified three priorities the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference must pursue: Formation, Becoming More Missionary and Promoting Collegiality. The priorities emerged

Irish people will find much familiar in Australian journalist Suzanne Smith’s account of the decades of horrific sexual abuse perpetrated by priests and Marist brothers in the New South Wales

STUDENTS from more than 70 Brisbane Catholic Education and religious instruction schools joined Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge for a Mass celebrating 200 years of Catholic education in Australia at St