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Pope Francis opens Holy Door to begin Jubilee at Vigil Christmas Mass at St. Peter’s

Church in Oceania

Sydney Opera House in Australia. (Credit: Pixabay.)

Australian archbishop urges rejection of ‘Equality Bill’ in New South Wales

Oct 12
Charles Collins

Archbishop Peter Loy Chong in Rotuma, Fiji. (Credit: Archdiocese of Suva.)

Archbishop in Fiji says Pacific island nation is free, but not yet democratic

Oct 9
Charles Collins

Wellington Catholic Cathedral in New Zealand. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

New Zealand Church vows ‘concrete actions’ against abuse in response to Royal Commission

Sep 27
Charles Collins

Ranger Uranium Mine in the Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory, Australia. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Australian bishop urges new Northern Territory leaders to leave no one behind

Aug 28
Crux Staff

Wellington Catholic Cathedral in New Zealand. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Assessment of Catholic safeguarding offers blueprint for improvement, New Zealand bishop says

Aug 16
Charles Collins

West side of Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia. (Credit: Steelkamp/Wikipedia.)

New report in Western Australia says Catholic Church must do more to help abuse victims

Aug 16
Crux Staff

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope to make voyage to the peripheries in visit to Papua New Guinea

Aug 15
Elise Ann Allen

People arrive at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, for the tabling of a wide-ranging independent inquiry into the abuse of children and vulnerable adults in care over the span of five decades wrote in a blistering final report. (Credit: Charlotte Graham-McLay/AP.)

Abuse commission in New Zealand points to Catholic Church in particular

Jul 24
Charles Collins

Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu, is photographed on Oct. 13, 2011, from a Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 aircraft as it approaches the tiny South Pacific nation. (Credit: Alastair Grant/AP.)

Priest appointed head of Mission Church in small Pacific island nation

Jun 6
John Lavenburg

Aboriginals dance in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Feb. 11, 2008. (Credit: Mark Graham/AP.)

Australian bishops approve new Aboriginal liturgy

May 8
Elise Ann Allen