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FILE: Australian Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Holy See, attending a press conference in Vatican. Pell was charged on 29 June 2017 with multiple child sex offences in Australia, police said. Picture: AFP

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Cardinal Pell walks free after Australian court acquittal

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The High Court ordered Pell's convictions be quashed and verdicts of acquittal be entered in their place, ending the most high profile case of alleged...

  • FILE: Pope Francis at St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican. Picture: AFP.

    Pope Francis sides with traditionalists on priest celibacy

    Francis slammed the door on a progressive proposal offered by the region's bishops during a synod on the region in October.

    822 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis. Picture: AFP

    Pope, closing synod, decries plundering of the Amazon

    In his sermon at a closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis criticised those who consider indigenous people 'backward and of little worth' instead of acknowledging what their cultures can teach others.

    933 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives mass. Picture: AFP

    Pope urged by Jews to take care over Pharisees talk

    Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, an old friend of the pope, said Francis would now know "how to present the Pharisees".

    1101 days ago
  • Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell speaks to the media at the Quirinale hotel in Rome on 3 March, 2016 at the end of evidence via video-link to Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney for a second of three days. Picture: AFP.

    Australian media challenge 'unprecedented' contempt charges over Pell reporting

    Twenty-three journalists and 13 media companies face fines and prison terms for allegedly breaching a gag order not to report on last year's trial of Pell for child sex abuse.

    1128 days ago
  • Pope Francis. Picture: @vaticannews/Facebook

    Vatican working on guidelines to report bishops in abuse cases

    The document, still in its early stages, would be the second official pronouncement by Pope Francis on the global sexual abuse crisis since he presided at a summit of senior bishops at the Vatican in February.

    1133 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives mass. Picture: AFP

    Pope rejects resignation of French cardinal in sex abuse cover-up

    The pope's decision, which was confirmed by the Vatican, triggered sharp surprise from the chairman of the Bishops' Conference of France, who termed the situation 'unheard of'.

    1155 days ago
  • Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon. Picture:saintaugustinenbeaujolais.fr

    Convicted French cardinal meets pope after saying he would resign

    The Vatican’s daily list of papal audiences confirmed that the meeting took place but gave no details. It did not say if the pope had accepted any resignation.

    1156 days ago
  • Pope Francis addresses journalists aboard the plane for his trip to Chile and Peru, on 15 January 2018. Picture: AFP

    Pope says he will not change priest celibacy rules

    Speaking to reporters aboard a plane returning from Panama, he restated that he was open to further study of the possibility of ordaining older married men in exceptional circumstances in remote areas with a severe shortage of priests.

    1204 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis. AFP.

    Prayer with the pope just a click away with new app

    The new app, called Click to Pray, will inform the user what the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics is praying for, such as world peace or the population of a country hit by a natural disaster, so they can join him.

    1213 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives mass. Picture: AFP.

    Pope urges predator priests to turn themselves in

    The pope has previously used the Christmas address to denounce cases of corruption and mismanagement in the Curia.

    1242 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Pope accepts US bishop's resignation over 'misconduct' with minor

    The case is the latest in a litany of child sexual abuse scandals to have rocked the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.3 billion followers around the world.

    1245 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Panama prisoners build confession boxes for papal visit

    The sound of nails being deftly hammered into wood mingles with music in the makeshift workshop of the overcrowded La Joya prison, northeast of Panama City.

    1276 days ago
  • A general view of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. Picture: AFP

    Vatican orders US bishops to delay sex abuse reforms

    Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, said the Vatican's decision aimed to make sure that "our decisions can be informed by listening to our brother bishops from around the world."

    1281 days ago
  • With Pope Francis set to elevate to slain Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero and free love naysayer Pope Paul VI to sainthood, this the process one follows to become a saint. Picture: AFP

    How to become a saint

    With Pope Francis set to elevate to slain Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero and free love naysayer Pope Paul VI to sainthood, this the process one follows to become a saint.

    1312 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Pope blames devil for Church divisions, scandals, seeks angel's help

    The pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the world to recite a special prayer.

    1317 days ago
  • Catholic priests. Picture: AFP.

    Catholic church in Australia rejects mandatory reporting of child abuse

    Last year, Australia completed a five-year government-appointed inquiry into child sex abuse in churches and other institutions.

    1355 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP

    Defenders rally around pope, fear conservatives escalating war

    On his flight home from Ireland on Sunday, Francis told reporters he would “not say one word” about the accusations.

    1357 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP

    Former top Vatican official says pope should resign over abuse crisis

    Francis, speaking to reporters on the plane returning from a trip to Dublin, said dismissively that a statement containing the accusations “speaks for itself”.

    1359 days ago
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