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Article: The Catholic Church in Australia: the struggle goes on.
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- Catholic Insight
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- December 1, 2004
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The situation of the Catholic Church in Australia is at least as parlous as in Canada, so any objective account inevitably will be depressing. Better then to begin with a good-news story even if it is but a small part of the total picture.
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