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Article Seeking a Path from Pell to a Plenary Council A pending government report on sexual abuse is just one of the challenges the Australian Church now confronts By Massimo Faggioli September 5, 2017 Sexual-abuse Crisis Bishops
Article Letter from Canada It is a dry time for Canadian Catholic thinkers By Michael W. Higgins August 16, 2017 Foreign Affairs Secularism and Modernity Bishops
Article A Wake-Up Call for the Catholic Church The Catholic responses to the white supremacists who showed up to intimidate and inflict violence were a mix of encouraging, problematic, and inadequate By John Gehring August 16, 2017 Bishops Race Social Justice U.S. Catholicism