Since 2000
In 2008, St Mary's Cathedral became the focus of World Youth Day 2008 and was visited by Pope Benedict XVI who, in his homily on 19 July, made the historic full apology for child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Australia, of whom 107 have been committed by the courts.
In February 2013, St Mary's Cathedral was visited by the Syriac Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Joseph III Younan.
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