About 50 anti-discrimination activists stage a protest outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court as three members of the anti-Islam United Patriots Front faced religious vilification charges.
In the world of elite sport, athletes are always seeking that special something to give them a winning edge over their opponents, and a growing number are now finding what they are looking for in meditation.
Instead of criminalising abortion, we need to ask what we can do to support women who unexpectedly fall pregnant, and the church has an important role to play, writes Michael Paget.
Parents of students at a Catholic primary school in Canberra were never told a priest accused of inappropriate conduct with children was living in a neighbouring retirement home.
Ordinary Australians are shunning big political parties, who they feel don't understand them, and are looking to alternatives like Pauline Hanson. As US historian Thomas Frank says, we're starting to sound just like Americans did at the last presidential election.
The Catholic Church's Melbourne Archdiocese rejects an independent review's recommendation to extend compensation for child sex abuse victims to their families or carers.
In the wake of community outcry, the Catholic Church says it has now removed three former priests from a Catholic-run retirement home neighbouring two Canberra primary schools.
A survivor of clerical sexual abuse leaves the Vatican's commission, accusing those involved of hiding behind "silence and secrecy" to avoid dealing with the issue.
The founder of a group that advocates for and supports victims of sexual assault calls for Catholic Archbishop Christopher Prowse to resign over the relocation of a priest accused of inappropriate behaviour towards children.
The phrase "What are you giving up for Lent?" is common at this time of year but for Christians, the time leading up to Easter is about more than that.
A special needs school in Canberra was not informed until recently a retired priest accused of inappropriate behaviour towards children was living nearby, the Catholic Church admits.
The remains of Tasmania's first bishop Robert William Willson, who is credited with trying to alleviate the more brutal forms of convict punishment, arrive from the UK.
Federal police say a man who blew up a van out the front of the Australian Christian Lobby building in Canberra last year was most likely trying to take his own life.
An Anglican church in Perth's south, which has been opening its doors to local Muslim worshippers once a week, offers to sell part of its land for a mosque to be built next door.
The Catholic Church confirms it removed a NSW parish priest amidst allegations of inappropriate conduct towards children, but continues to house him on property neighbouring two Canberra schools.
While there are pockets of antipathy towards Muslims, an overwhelming majority of Australians don't share it, writes Professor Riaz Hassan from Flinders University.
Revellers across Brazil begin Carnival celebrations, taking to the streets to dance and blow off steam at a time of economic angst and fury with politicians over a sprawling corruption scandal.
A firebrand monk who helped stoke sectarian conflict in Myanmar throws his support behind the controversial Dhammakaya sect in Thailand, which is currently at odds with law enforcement over money laundering allegations.
Senior leaders in the Catholic Church tell the royal commission into child sexual abuse that mandatory celibacy is a contributing factor, but not the cause of abuse. See how their second day of testimony unfolds in our live blog.
The WA Premier and Opposition Leader clash over voluntary euthanasia and the Safe Schools program during a public question and answer session organised by the Australian Christian Lobby in the lead-up to the state election.
Florence's famed Duomo is cleaning up its act, removing centuries of graffiti from the cathedral dome interior and letting new visitors leave their mark digitally instead.
About 1,000 people, many waving Palestinian flags, gather at Sydney's Town Hall saying they are embarrassed by the warm reception given to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Down Under.
