By Marilyn Rodrigues Canberra: Australia’s Catholic bishops have called on the federal government to consider serious safety and ethical concerns as it considers legalizing technology to allow children to be born with genetic material from three people. Federal MPs will be given a conscience vote about whether mitochondrial donation shouldContinue Reading
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Melbourne’s archbishop, who said he’d prefer jail to telling civil authorities about any sex abuse of children that might be revealed to him in the confessional. The Vatican said on June 29 that the pontiff has appointed Monsignor Peter Comensoli, 54, to headContinue Reading
Sydney: The bishops of Australia have called on the faithful of the country to begin the season of Lent with four days of fasting and reparation for victims of sexual abuse within the Church. One suggested prayer for the penitential period asks God: “May all those who have been abusedContinue Reading
