After being received in private audience by Pope Francis last Monday, Cardinal George Pell concluded an unforgettable week by celebrating his first public Mass in Rome since his return to the Vatican on Sept. 30.

A conversation with Father Pat Conroy, Jesuit priest and chaplain to all 435 members of the House, from the hosts of Jesuitical.

Different modes of authority and models of governance have existed in the Catholic Church's history, often in response to the need for church reform.

Mass attendance and Catholic affiliation have been eroding steadily since the 1970s for all income brackets, but the sharpest decline has been among the two bottom economic quartiles.