Australia

Church and world leaders offered prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery to Pope Leo XIV following the Vatican’s announcement that he was diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery …

This will be the 54th International Eucharistic Congress. It has been hosted twice in Australia already: in Sydney in 1928 and Melbourne in 1973.

Australian Bishop Christopher Saunders was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for abusing two victims who were part of the Indigenous Aboriginal community. 

Archbishop Costelloe of Perth said that with the conclusion of the trial, the Church’s investigation of Bishop Saunders “can now recommence.”

A Texas-based bishop, who leads one of the Catholic Church’s three “Anglican ordinariates,” has seen his pastoral care expanded to Australia, as a fellow prelate has been tapped to lead …

Archbishop Randazzo will remain in Broken Bay for three months as apostolic administrator before relocating to Rome to assume his new duties

Along with the U.S., Canada and Mexico, Pew included in its survey various European, Asian and South American nations, as well as Australia.

The figures represented a significant surge in growth for the region, with the number of catechumens increasing by 35% and candidates by 95% over the last year.

Catholics in France to hold a nationwide prayer and fasting initiative Feb. 20 to “ask the Lord to enlighten consciences on the gravity of the challenges posed” by an assisted …

If the pope is able to make it, “he will be involved in a very, very long and large, Eucharistic procession, which will be very exciting.”