In Australia's multi-stage Plenary Council, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge saw the Holy Spirit — comforter and disrupter — at work, a dynamic also present in Pope Francis' style of synods, he ...

The Catholic Church in Australia has concluded its Fifth Plenary Council. After months of debate and discussion on Church governance and pastoral priorities, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth ...

A Western Australia parliamentary committee gave its final report after examining the support available to survivors of institutional child abuse, saying the Catholic Church and other religious ...

Australia’s Catholic bishops have elected Archbishop Timothy Costelloe as their new leader. Costelloe, a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco, is the first member of a religious order to serve as ...

The Church disagrees with a key finding by Australia's royal commission. The Catholic Church in Australia has agreed to almost all of the recommendations of Australia's Royal Commission on child sex ...

The agenda for the Second Assembly of Australia's Plenary Council was disrupted July 6 after more than 60 of the 277 members staged a protest over issues regarding women in the church, including the ...

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A young woman leaves St. Mary’s Cathedral after a Mass in Sydney Feb. 12, 2013. Australia’s Catholic population fell by 2.7% between 2011 and 2016, but Catholics are more likely to have a higher ...

Australia’s Catholic Church has rejected calls for priests to be compelled to report child abuse revealed in confessionals. The Church said Friday it would accept “98%” of recommendations made by a ...

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has joined the growing numbers calling for a federal inquiry into antisemitism, ...