Iconic Australian socialite Eileen “Red” Bond has been remembered as “wonderful, exuberant, loyal” mother and friend during a catholic requiem mass held in WA.

A royal commission recommends that the Australian Catholic Church ask the Vatican to lift its celibacy requirement for clergy and require that evidence of abuse revealed in confession be reported.

An employee of G8 Education, one of Australia's largest private childcare operators, was charged with child rape.

Senior leaders in Australia’s Catholic church have rejected calls by a wide-reaching investigation into child abuse to end mandatory celibacy for priests and break the secrecy of confession.

SYDNEY, Australia — Despite a series of sexual abuse scandals stretching back decades, Australia’s Roman Catholic Church displays a veneer of strength. Across Australia, more Catholic parishes ...

Australian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who was acquitted in 2020 of sexual abuse accusations, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, his ...

For the first time in almost 70 years, the Church’s Australian hierarchy will not have a voice in the election of the next pope.

Around 25,000 teachers and school workers in the state of Victoria are voting today and tomorrow on a new industrial agreement that includes nominal wage rises of just 1 percent every six months.

In-demand Victorian state high schools are struggling to get staff, with teachers shunning outer suburban and regional ...

Australian Catholic University's Mount Saint Mary Campus in Strathfield, a suburb of Sydney. Boston College and Australian Catholic University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support and ...

Organisations like the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, a registered basic religious charity, are largely free from accountability.

A university student from the Sunshine Coast has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to study and represent First Nations ...