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Pope Francis has appointed 21 new cardinals – an expert on medieval Christianity explains what it means for the future of the Catholic Church

On Sept. 30, 2023, Pope Francis swore in 21 clergymen as new members of the College of Cardinals. The College is an important part of the church’s governance structure – each new member takes a formal oath during a ritual ceremony in the presence of present members of the College.

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Women's voices and votes loom large as pope opens Vatican meeting on church's future

Pope Francis this week will open a global gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople discussing the future of the church

The Independent UK

‘A jealous god’: China remakes religions in its own image

Authorities are violating religious freedoms across China as the leadership seeks to assert control.

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From Luna Park to neo-Nazis – why the Middle Ages still matters to middle Australia

The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities. Indeed, the very idea of a university is medieval – a concept developed by the Catholic Church around the year 1100.

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Polish Artist Challenges Blasphemy Laws, Stifling Freedom Of Expression

Krzysztof Soroka's painting sparks debate on the role of the Catholic Church in Polish society

Zenger

Vatican shares investigation into child abuse allegations against an Australian bishop with police

The Catholic Church says the Vatican has shared with police findings of an internal investigation of a former Australian bishop over child sex abuse allegations and will fully cooperate with criminal investigators

The Independent UK

Vatican's bishop sex abuse report handed to WA police

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has provided West Australian police with a damning report into allegations of sexual abuse and grooming.

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Not A Tame Lion: The Untold Story Of John Boswell’s Influence On History

‌With knowledge of 14 languages, a gifted linguist, he was the type of scholar who emerges in a field maybe twice a century

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Vatican's sex abuse report on WA bishop to go to police

A Vatican report that found a longstanding bishop of Broome sexually assaulted Aboriginal boys and young men is to be forwarded to West Australian police.

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In the wake of Chile’s Catholic abuse crisis, victims struggle to find justice

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America

The Independent UK

In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America

The Independent UK

Vatican report says Broome bishop a sexual predator

A longtime Catholic bishop of Broome groomed and sexually assaulted Aboriginal boys and young men, a Vatican investigation has found.

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Paris’s Catholic Foreign Missions Society under fire over alleged sexual abuse

The French Catholic Church is facing new accusations of a sexual abuse scandal within Paris’s Foreign Missions Society, an organisation dedicated to spreading Christianity overseas. As a criminal investigation has been opened into accusations against three clergymen from the group, a FRANCE 24 investigation by journalists Karina Chabour and Julie…

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Ox-pulled floats with sacred images of Mary draw thousands to Portugal’s wine-country procession

In the small town of Lamego in Portugal's Douro River Valley, where harvesting grapes for wine is in full swing in early September, one of Portugal’s largest and oldest religious festivals draws thousands

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UN says Nicaragua's human rights violations and persecution of dissidents are on the rise

Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country says

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Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church since mid-20th century

A sweeping study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle Uni research shows older Catholic women most want church reform

The survey collected the insights of women on the state of the Catholic church, which will be presented at the Vatican in October.

The Independent UK

The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story

The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago

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Pope insists Vatican-China relations are on track but says more work is needed

Pope Francis is insisting that the Vatican's relations with China are going well despite setbacks but says more work is needed to show Beijing that the Catholic Church isn’t beholden to any foreign power

The Independent UK

Pope wants to keep big Vatican meeting on the church's future behind closed doors, ideology-free

Pope Francis has defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed doors

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Francis opens a homeless clinic on the 1st papal visit to Mongolia

Several of the foreign-staffed Catholic religious orders in Mongolia run shelters, orphanages and nursing homes to care for a population of 3.3 million where one in three people lives in poverty.

The Independent UK

Francis opens clinic on 1st papal visit to Mongolia. He says it's about charity not conversion

Pope Francis is wrapping up the first-ever papal visit to Mongolia

France 24

Pope visits Mongolia for first time amid strained relations with China, Russia

Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday morning on a visit to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities.

The Independent UK

Pope makes first visit to Mongolia as Vatican relations with Russia and China are again strained

Pope Francis is travelling to Mongolia to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities

Al Jazeera

‘Lively in faith’: Pope Francis heads to Mongolia with eye on diplomacy

Mongolia, between Russia and China, could help ease church’s troubled ties with Beijing and lift Ukraine peace efforts.

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