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Topic: Australia

A new scandal is shaking the Aussie Church

Police are currently looking into alleged cover-ups involving three senior churchmen

Vatican to create Australian ordinariate

A church in Melbourne is already earmarked for use

It’s becoming hard to find an Aussie priest

Soon one in four priests in Australia will be foreign-born or on visas

Don’t vote Green, say bishops: they’re in favour of drugs, abortion and gay marriage and against religious freedom

But that’s Australia: surely our own dear Greens are more wholesome? Don’t you believe it

Australian bishops warn Catholics against voting for Greens

But two bishops refuse to sign statement, saying that an attack on a particular party is not the most ‘effective’ kind of political intervention

Is it wrong to see a spiritual dimension in the unfolding drama of the Ashes?

After all, the mighty are being put down from their seats and the humble exalted

Pope canonises Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint

Pope Benedict XVI proclaims six new saints, including a Canadian brother known as the ‘Miracle Man of Montreal’