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Australian police arrest former Broome bishop in child abuse probe

02/21/2024 at 5:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Pillar, February 21, 2024   Local police in Western Australia arrested Bishop Christopher Saunders, the former leader of the Diocese of Broome, at his home on Feb. 21.  According to local media reports, authorities have not commented on possible charges facing the bishop. However,... read more

Australian police raid former home of ‘sexual predator’ bishop

01/15/2024 at 8:05 AM By Kevin Edward White
By The Pillar, January 15, 2024  Child abuse investigators in Australia raided a Church property Monday, as part of an investigation into the former Bishop of Broome.  The property, a house, was until last year the residence of Bishop Christopher Saunders, who resigned as bishop of... read more

Archbishop: If a Synod Proposal is at Odds With the Gospel, ‘That’s Not of the Holy Spirit’

10/20/2023 at 2:17 PM By Kevin Edward White
‘We’ve got to be careful about blaming everything — all our opinions, our interests, lobbies, and factions — putting all that on the Holy Spirit,’ Archbishop Fisher said. By Courtney Mares/CNA/ National Catholic Register, October 20, 2023 During the Synod on Synodality, we must be... read more

Broome bishop facing abuse claims told royal commission of church’s ‘massive failure’ over allegations

09/26/2023 at 10:09 AM By Kevin Edward White
Christopher Saunders, who denies grooming young boys, criticised the Catholic church’s response to child sexual abuse allegations at a royal commission in 2017 By Tory Shepherd, the Guardian, September 26, 2023 A Catholic leader now accused of assaulting or grooming dozens of young... read more

OZ PRIEST SHUFFLED TO 16 PARISHES ABUSED 72 CHILDREN

08/20/2023 at 11:09 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, August 17, 2023 BALLARAT, Australia (ChurchMilitant.com) - A notorious predator priest who was transferred to 16 parishes to cover up his serial sexual abuse of children has had 12 months added to his 39-year prison sentence for molesting a 72nd... read more

Persecution of Catholic-owned Calvary Hospital is radical call to arms for Australian Catholics 

05/17/2023 at 4:02 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Cronan Yu, Catholic Herald (UK), May 17, 2023 Last week, the Australian Capital Territory’s overlords announced their plan to strip Calvary Hospital – an establishment of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary – of its Catholic ownership in favour of the non-faith-based agency... read more

Australian Anglicans Split Over Same-Sex Marriage

08/19/2022 at 7:22 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Diocese of the Southern Cross was officially launched in Canberra on Sunday, and former Sydney Anglican Archbishop Glenn Davies was named its first bishop. Notably, the statement upholding the traditional view of marriage was passed by the house of the laity by 63 votes to 47 and by the house... read more

Australia admits $1.5 billion error in investigation into suspected Vatican money laundering

01/13/2021 at 9:45 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Gerard O'Connor, America, January 13, 2021 The Australian government’s international financial watchdog, Austrac, has admitted that it made an enormous blunder when it reported to the country’s Senate that 2.3 billion Australian dollars were transferred from the Vatican to Australia in... read more

Vatican denies knowledge of $1.8 billion transferred to Australia

12/31/2020 at 3:37 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Philip Pullella, Reuters, December 31, 2020 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and the Australian Catholic Church have both denied knowledge of transfers worth US$1.8 billion which Australia’s financial watchdog says have been sent from Rome to Australia in the past seven... read more

Report: Australia’s Church Leaders Were Unaware of $1.7 Billion Transferred From Vatican

12/27/2020 at 1:01 PM By Kevin Edward White
The report by an Australian newspaper, which drew on documents from Australia’s financial crime regulator, did not detail where the money was dispersed. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, December 22, 2020 ROME — The Vatican and its associated financial entities transferred a... read more

Vatican is investigated by federal police over $2.3billion in secret transfers to Australia – but local Catholic Church leaders claim they haven’t seen a cent of it

12/22/2020 at 5:33 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Kylie Stevens, Daily Mail Australia, December 22, 2020 The Vatican has secretly transferred $2.3billion to Australia in the last six yearsTransactions peaked at $581.3m in 2017, according to financial crime regulatorAustralian Federal Police investigating information received from... read more
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Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse

09/09/2020 at 11:10 AM By Kevin Edward White

MY TIME IN PRISON

07/28/2020 at 3:07 PM By Kevin Edward White

‘Double standards’: Archbishop of Sydney upset with 10-person church limit compared to pubs’ 50

05/28/2020 at 10:49 AM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Pell Ruling Deferred, Supporters Hopeful

03/12/2020 at 10:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
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Cardinal Pell’s Appeal and Australia’s High Court: What’s In Play?

11/16/2019 at 1:09 PM By Kevin Edward White

Australia’s highest court agrees to hear Cardinal Pell’s appeal in sex abuse case

11/13/2019 at 10:14 AM By Kevin Edward White

The Strange Case against Cardinal Pell

08/22/2019 at 6:35 PM By Kevin Edward White
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Prosecution Falters During Cardinal Pell Appeal Hearing

06/08/2019 at 6:22 AM By Kevin Edward White

A tale of two Georges

03/20/2019 at 6:49 PM By Kevin Edward White