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Palliative care in Australia on life support, says new report
- Mar 6, 2021
Australia has only half the number of palliative care doctors needed to provide good quality care for chronically and terminally ill patients, despite increasing demand, according to new research.

By Marilyn Rodrigues
Australian bishops release working document for October Plenary Council
- Feb 25, 2021
The need for “deep, spiritual conversion of all members of the church stands out” as a key theme of the “instrumentum laboris,” the working document for Australia’s Plenary Council, due to begin in October, said one of its authors.

By Benjamin Conolly
10 years after quake, Christ Church Cathedral finally rising
- Feb 20, 2021
The Christ Church Cathedral was arguably New Zealand’s most iconic building before much of it crumbled in an earthquake 10 years ago. The years of debate that followed over whether the ruins should be rebuilt or demolished came to symbolize the paralysis that has sometimes afflicted the broader rebuild of Christchurch.

By Nick Perry

Opponents: Australian bill on ‘conversion’ practices is attack on freedoms
- Feb 10, 2021
Groups across a wide spectrum reacted with dismay and concern to passage of a law in the Australian state of Victoria to ban “conversion” practices. Some called it an attack on freedom of religion and speech.

By Catholic News Service

Australian police find no crime in Vatican money transfers
- Feb 3, 2021
Australian police said Wednesday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct in money transfers from the Vatican that a financial agency mistakenly inflated by almost $1.8 billion and fueled corruption speculation.

By Associated Press
Australian media companies admit breaching Pell gag order
- Feb 1, 2021
Australian media companies admitted in court Monday they breached a gag order in publishing references to Cardinal George Pell’s since-overturned convictions in 2018 for child sexual abuse. The plea agreement avoids any journalist being sent to prison.

By Rod McGuirk
Aussie prelate says Pell verdict created ‘clear air’ to move forward on reform
- Feb 1, 2021
One of Australia’s most senior Church officials has said the acquittal of Cardinal George Pell last April has allowed the country to move forward on necessary reforms in abuse prevention.

By Elise Ann Allen
Australian bishops to implement new protocol on responding to abuse
- Jan 29, 2021
A new national protocol for responding to historical child sexual abuse and any new allegations in the Catholic Church in Australia will be more compassionate and just, said Archbishop Mark Coleridge, head of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

By Marilyn Rodrigues

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