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January 15, 2020

Committee to recommend Australian bishops give laity certain controls

Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops' conference, gives the homily during Mass at a meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican Feb. 24, 2019. A six-person committee charged with reviewing church governance and management is expected to present Australia's bishops with a plan to overhaul the management of the church in the country.

YANGON, Myanmar -- A six-person committee charged with reviewing church governance and management is expected to present Australia's bishops with a plan to overhaul the management of the church in the country.

Published in International
June 22, 2018

Church now facing its own #MeToo moment, says Australian archbishop

Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, is pictured June 21 on the sidelines of the Anglophone Safeguarding Conference, which was held at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University June 18-21.
ROME – In the wake of historic allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up in countries around the world, the Catholic Church is experiencing the same challenge that has brought a reckoning to those who used their authority to abuse or silence victims, said an Australian archbishop.
Published in International