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Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops' conference, gives the homily during a Mass at a meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican in this 2019 file photo. A new national protocol for responding to historical child sexual abuse and any new allegations in the Catholic Church in Australia will be both more compassionate and just, Coleridge said Jan. 28, 2021. (CNS photo/Maria Grazia Picciarella)