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TWO Australian archbishops have warned law changes proposed by the Australian Law Reform Commission would prevent Church schools from being...

THE high cost of settling abuse claims is a major factor forcing large numbers of U.S. dioceses into bankruptcy proceedings....

CHRISTMAS for Brisbane’s thriving Sudanese Catholic communities is a time of faithful worship and prayer, accompanied by vibrant singing, dancing...

A NEW study has mapped the prevalence of youth self-harm across Australia, identifying states and regions that need to be...

A DOVE in flight lays a blanket over a homeless person in a new sculpture blessed by Pope Francis this...

SOME 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement...

WITH a renewed membership, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors met at the Vatican in late October and...

AFTER telling a funny story about receiving a cellphone decades ago that was "as big as a shoe," Pope Francis...

A VISITING U.S. right-to-life campaigner has a strong message to share: there is an alternative to the ‘easy’ solutions offered...

ALFREDO Barahona, has a message to Australian Catholics as the Church navigates a path of reconciliation with First Nations peoples...

Queensland Child Protection Week is under way (September 4-10) and the Archdiocese of Brisbane has thrown its support behind the...

DEVELOPING dementia is the biggest fear for Australians aged over 55 and the second leading cause of death in the...

 Two state-sponsored church bodies in China have elected new leaders, who promised to invigorate the Catholic faithful pastorally in line...

Pope Francis dedicated his general audience talk to the urgent need for young and old to come together so older...

Vatican News Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, has addressed this year's SIGNIS World Congress in...

MYANMAR’s Catholic prelate, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has warned the military in his country is cracking down hard on dissident...

AFTER months of hearings across Australia, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has released its interim report, with 13...

By Auxiliary Bishop Tim Norton, Brisbane. JUST a few days before the recent national Homelessness Week (August 1-7), staff in...

ARCHBISHOP Francis Duffy of Tuam praised Pope Francis for his penitential pilgrimage to Canada to apologise for the church's role...

DESPITE sporadic acts of brutal religious violence in Indonesia, Jakarta’s archbishop, Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo, says there is now relative peace...

THE planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school...

POPE Francis joined Indigenous pilgrims at a lake known for miraculous healings and encouraged them to lay their burdens on...

THE parents of a 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, have been refused permission to appeal against a decision to end his life...

IT is not unusual for Townsville Bishop Tim Harris to drive four, five or six hours to visit his Catholic...

CNS and staff reporters POPE Francis said he was "deeply sorry" for the Catholic Church's "catastrophic" involvement in the "cultural...