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The abuse crisis should be the center of the pope’s ongoing synodal process

Abuse Crisis Centre Synodal Process Title: The abuse crisis should be the center of the pope’s ongoing synodal process Authors: Massimo Faggioli & Hans Zollner Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 15NOV2022 As American Jesuit historian Fr. John O’Malley wrote in one of his last articles published in America magazine last February, the history of synodality is

November 21, 2022 No Comments

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The Polding House Push and The Catholic Weekly Bugle.

Plenary Council Dumb Silence Title: The Polding House Push and The Catholic Weekly Bugle. Author: David Timbs Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 20AUG2020 Over the past year in particular, Australian Catholics have become convinced that their bishops, with some exceptions, are playing games with them in the lead up to the national Plenary

August 20, 2020 No Comments

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Endemic secrecy in the Catholic Church

Endemic secrecy Catholic Church Title: Endemic secrecy in the Catholic Church Author: Francis Sullivan Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 13AUG2020 Throughout the child sexual abuse Royal Commission the inquirers regularly asked why institutions not only tolerated child abusers but actively concealed their crimes. Secrecy was endemic in the culture of these institutions.

August 13, 2020 No Comments

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Pope says fighting clerical abuse fosters deeper respect for life

Pope Fighting Clerical Abuse Title: Pope says fighting clerical abuse fosters deeper respect for life Author: Ines San Martin Publisher: Crux Date: 06AUG2020 ROSARIO, Argentina – Beyond the obvious reasons to fight clerical sexual abuse, above all the damage such abuse inflicts on victims, Pope Francis has added another argument: The effort to prevent abuse,

August 6, 2020 No Comments

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Bishops are free to publish their reports; but they prefer to keep them secret

Bishops Prefer Secrecy Ireland Title: Bishops are free to publish their reports; but they prefer to keep them secret Author: Soline Humbert Publisher: We are Church Ireland Date: 18JUN2020 Three years ago the Association of Catholic Priests, the Association of Catholics in Ireland and We Are Church Ireland, wrote a joint letter to all the

June 20, 2020 No Comments

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Australian Bishops urge further consultation on leaked governance report

Australian Bishops “Interim” Report Title: Australian Bishops urge further consultation on leaked governance report Author: Vatican News Publisher: Vatican News Date: 15JUN2020 Archbishop Mark Coleridge issues a statement regarding a leaked report on Church governance in Australia, and calls for further consultation before the final version can be released. The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’

June 15, 2020 No Comments

Opinion

A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion

Gaillardetz Confidential Australia Governance Title: A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion Author: Richard R. Gaillardetz Publisher: Catholic Outlook Reproduced with permission of La Croix. Date: 06JUN2020 One of the world’s top ecclesiologists analyzes an unprecedented Church governance report. Click here for Part One: “The Light from the Southern Cross” The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

June 6, 2020 No Comments

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Hmmm … the Independent Advisory Group’s Governance report

Dim Light Southern Cross Title: Hmmm … the Independent Advisory Group’s Governance report Author: Philippa Martyr Publisher: The Catholic Weekly Date: 05JUN2020 The Royal Commission made some sensible recommendations for changes in church governance. But they also made recommendations – like breaking the seal of the confessional – which the Church can’t introduce without altering

June 5, 2020 No Comments

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Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership

Shed Prejudice Women’s Leadership Title: Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership Author: Joshua J. McElwee Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 24FEB2020 VATICAN CITY — One of the six members of Pope Francis’ advisory Council of Cardinals has acknowledged a bias among the members of the Catholic Church’s all-male hierarchy against giving women

February 25, 2020 No Comments

Child Abuse Royal Commission

Health and Integrity in Church and Ministry

Royal Commission Sexual Abuse Title: Health and Integrity in Church and Ministry: An ecumenical conversation on the task of rebuilding and renewal after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Conference Papers Editor: Stephen Crittenden Publication: Franciscan Friars (Australia) Date: 27-29 August 2018 Melbourne, Australia Key excerpts: Recommendation 16.10 is formulated as follows:

February 16, 2020 No Comments

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The abuse crisis should be the center of the pope’s ongoing synodal process

The Polding House Push and The Catholic Weekly Bugle.

Endemic secrecy in the Catholic Church

Pope says fighting clerical abuse fosters deeper respect for life

Bishops are free to publish their reports; but they prefer to keep them secret

Australian Bishops urge further consultation on leaked governance report

A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion

Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership

Health and Integrity in Church and Ministry

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