A lifelong obsession with Catholicism is one of the main themes in Martin Scorsese's latest film, as he continues what he calls a search for the spiritual human condition.
Outspoken independent senator Jacqui Lambie gets into a shouting match over sharia law with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a former Queensland Young Australian of the Year, on Q&A.
Tasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.
Victoria University says it is reviewing its administrative procedures after its Flinders Street campus building was used to hold a fundraising dinner for an anti-Islam organisation last week.
Former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth is found by the royal commission into child abuse to have prioritised the needs of an abusive rector over those of one of his victims and other children at risk.
The Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by the United Nations.
One of Australia's most senior Catholics, Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, says he does not know how many priests break their vows of celibacy, and does not think it is appropriate to question them.
A Buddhist monk is arrested in Myanmar after a grenade, ammunition and more than four million methamphetamine pills are found by authorities in his car and in his monastery.
A defamation case between a halal certifier and an anti-halal campaigner in the NSW Supreme Court is being closely watched by some of the country's highest profile conservative politicians.
The Catholic Church confirms more than $200,000 has been paid to victims of sex abuse perpetrated by members of the Diocese of Sale, in eastern Victoria.
In 1978, a group of Catholic schoolboys was called to make a moral decision. The night before, a Marist brother had tried to assault one of them. Those boys were better disciples than the princes of their Church. That is a triumph and a tragedy, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Indonesia says it is midway through a month-long deradicalisation of 75 people who were deported from Turkey for attempting to join the Islamic State group.
The Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.
Over the course of 60 years, 40 per cent of the members of the Brothers of St John of God had allegations of child sexual abuse made against them, but who are they and what role do does the order play in society today?
One WA diocese had 21.5 per cent of all priests accused of child sex abuse, three times the national average, according to figures released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Two young men are on an evangelistic mission that has brought them from the United States to the pastoral heartland of the Northern Territory. Their goal? To convert the residents of Katherine.
