The price of a typical house in Melbourne has multiplied by 22 in the past 40 years, almost four times faster than wages, with advocates warning that women were bearing the brunt of the affordability crisis. Analysis by social research firm McCrindle shows the gap between booming house prices across Australian capital cities and the Read more
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Rome diocese bans traditional Latin Mass for Easter Triduum
Thursday, November 11th, 2021The vicar general for the Diocese of Rome has banned the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass during the Easter Triduum in his implementation of Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes. In a letter dated Oct 7, but made public on several blogs Nov 9, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis said that Mass could continue to Read more
Head of US Bishops calls social justice movements “pseudo-religions”
Monday, November 8th, 2021
An archbishop’s speech saying some modern social justice movements are Marxist-inspired, woke, anti-Christian “pseudo-religions” has been met with “dismay and disbelief”. US Bishops’ Conference head and Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez’s (pictured) 4 November speech to a group of Catholics in Spain shows “a serious misunderstanding, and perhaps even a willed ignorance, about the goals Read more
French Catholic Church accepts it allowed “systemic” abuse
Monday, November 8th, 2021
The French Catholic Church allowed the child abuse to become “systemic,” said Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, chair of the country’s Bishops Conference. In a statement on Friday, the conference said the French Catholic Church bears “institutional responsibility” for the thousands of child abuse cases documented in a report released in October. “This responsibility implies a Read more
Canadian Government minister stunned residential school payments appeal abandoned
Monday, November 8th, 2021
New Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller is stunned that Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors. Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of the ruling, “I am as puzzled as everyone,” he told The Canadian Press in a recent interview.” Read more
Papuan activists demand locals be appointed as bishops
Monday, November 8th, 2021
Papuan activists have said protests against the Catholic Church will continue unless the pope appoints native Papuans as bishops to the Indonesian region in the future. Since February, the activists have held rallies in churches in Jayapura every Sunday, airing their demand for the Vatican to appoint native Papuan priests as bishops in their region. Read more
New report details detention and torture of North Korean Christians
Monday, November 8th, 2021
A new report based on interviews with North Korean defectors details two decades’ detention and torture of North Korean Christians. Some of the human rights violations occurred as recently as 2019. The report and accompanying database, documents 167 serious human rights violations perpetrated against 91 Christians. The report’s eyewitness interviews are current: human rights NGO Read more
Cambodian PM promises fourth Covid-19 booster dose
Monday, November 8th, 2021Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that all Cambodians will receive a fourth dose of vaccine against Covid-19 with the support of development partners. “We know that we have a limited budget for the fourth dose, but the government may reduce other expenses to buy the vaccine. The government will not [go] bankrupt at any Read more
Twelve bishops under investigation by Church in Mexico for covering up sexual abuse
Monday, November 8th, 2021Archbishop Franco Coppola, the apostolic nuncio to Mexico, said that to date there are 12 bishops being investigated by the Catholic Church for allegedly covering up cases of cases of the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults in the country, but that nothing has been determined so far. The investigations, carried out on the Read more
Episcopal ordination of shot bishop-elect postponed to 2022
Monday, November 8th, 2021The apostolic nuncio to South Sudan has announced the postponement of the episcopal ordination of a Catholic bishop-elect who is recovering from gunshot wounds. Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare was due to be consecrated as bishop of Rumbek, central South Sudan, on May 23, Pentecost Sunday. But the episcopal ordination was postponed after he was shot in Read more