2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (274+ words) The parish priest of Holy Spirit Catholic church in Amaroo has died suddenly. The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn said that Father Troy Bobbin died "at Canberra Hospital following complications from treatment for recently diagnosed cancer". The parish priest was…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (311+ words) A priest from a recently excommunicated Catholic splinter sect has told worshippers the breakaway group will be welcomed back "to the church under a different Pope. The Society of St Pius X - a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics - was excommunicated…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (292+ words) Pope Leo XIV has addressed about 40, 000 mostly young people at a prayer vigil in Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, speaking in both Catalan and Spanish during the second leg of his week-long visit to Spain. The American Pope, who is fluent in…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (395+ words) The Vatican provided few "details of the meeting, which lasted about an hour. But it said Leo had listened to proposals to make Church safeguarding more effective, and promised to make it a safe space for all. Leo, on a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (800+ words) Did you know you can bet on 2027 being the year of the second coming of Jesus Christ? Many people reportedly have - Americans probably. I suppose this is barely more absurd than viewing universal healthcare as (a) communism, and (b) less of a…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (332+ words) Pope Leo has asked that God will inspire world leaders to calm global tensions and reduce hatred in "an address to mark his first anniversary as head of the Catholic Church, a "day after he met US Secretary of State…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (472+ words) Pope Leo and "new Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally have met for the first time in a symbolic encounter at the Vatican in which the leaders of the "long-separated Catholic Church and Church of England exchanged gifts and prayed together....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (617+ words) Israeli police have prevented Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate a private mass on the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday for the first time in centuries, setting off a wave of criticism from the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (566+ words) The bones of St Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, are going on display for the first time, giving his hilltop Umbrian hometown yet another reason to welcome pilgrims. That's…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (247+ words) Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican says. The consistory, as such gatherings are called, will be held January 7-8, immediately following the January 6 conclusion of the…...