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Pope Francis inspired the world’s lieutenants during a quinquennial meeting in Rome on 16 November, influencing them to place the evangelical love of thy neighbour as the final aim[Read more...]

Auxiliary Bishop of Perth Donald Sproxton has this week urged all Catholics to promote, empower and recognise the gifts of people with disability.[Read more...]

In a video message to young men and women around the world, Pope Francis called on them to provoke an uprising of change by serving others.[Read more...]

Pope Francis welcomed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the Vatican on 15 November for a private discussion that included the importance of building greater trust between Israelis[Read more...]

Life is for loving, not amassing possessions, Pope Francis said on 7 November during his weekly general audience.[Read more...]

Bishop Peter Elliott says he kept Mother Teresa’s exhortation to new bishops – that they be “happy bishops” – front of mind and in his heart during his 11 years of episcopal minist[Read more...]

The Mass for the feast of All Souls is "realistic, concrete" in calling Catholics to remember the people and events of their past, to consider how they live today and to hope for e[Read more...]

Speaking on behalf of all adult Catholics, Pope Francis formally closed the Synod of Bishops by asking young people for forgiveness.[Read more...]

The Episcopal Consecration of the first local Catholic Bishop Peter Houhou, was held on 14 October at the St Augustine Catholic Cathedral in Auki, Malaita Province.[Read more...]

An apology for past failings and calls for a renewed Church that listens and offers the guidance young people seek were common themes from the Australian voices heard at the Synod [Read more...]

Carrying Pope Paul VI's pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognised them – and five others – as s[Read more...]

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, claims former Cardinal Theodore E McCarrick had been told by Vatican officials to withdraw from public life because [Read more...]

By Jo Ann Zuniga Catholic experts have called for palliative care to become standard around the world. A female religious suffering from metastatic breast cancer in the final stage[Read more...]

The Vatican has announced that all of the Catholic bishops in China are in full communion with the Pope for the first time in decades.[Read more...]

Twenty-two-year-old Sydney-based Sebastian Duhau will soon be making his way to the Vatican as Australia’s youth auditor at the upcoming General Synod of Bishops on Young People, F[Read more...]

Responding quickly and appropriately to the problem of abuse must be a priority for the Catholic Church, said Cardinal Sean O'Malley, President of the Vatican's Pontifical Commissi[Read more...]

Members of Pope Francis' international Council of Cardinals expressed "full solidarity" with him in the midst of questions about his handling of the clerical sexual abuse scandal a[Read more...]

The seal of confession is so important and sacred that a priest would be automatically excommunicated under canon law for directly revealing the contents of a confession.[Read more...]

A former apostolic nuncio to the United States accused Church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by now-Archbishop[Read more...]

Pope Francis said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's long document calling on him to resign is written in a way that people should be able to draw their own conclusions.[Read more...]