By Paul Gray Retired Bishop Geoffrey Robinson. Photo: Supplied The Australian bishops have revealed there are doctrinal difficulties with teachings contained in a book by a retired NSW bishop, Geoffrey Robinson. The book, Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus, was published last year. In a statement agreed on during the May plenary meeting...

As secretary general of a confederation of 162 Catholic aid and development agencies, that is Caritas Internationalis (CI), Duncan Maclaren has seen it all. He has seen the kind of poverty that strips a person of their humanity, he has seen individual generosity grow worldwide and has seen nations pledge, only to decide tax breaks were a more efficient use of the country’s budget. Yet th...

On Friday, June 26, the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Perth met to decide on the manner of implementing the conciliar decree on the liturgy.