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.

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.

CANBERRA, Australia—A judicial inquiry investigating decades of alleged child abuse by Australia’s Catholic Church has been told that up to 7% of priests may have been pedophiles, with a ...

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

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 ...

Australian Catholic school workers threatened with ... Around 25,000 teachers and school workers within the private Catholic system in the state of Victoria are voting today and tomorrow on a ...

Australian Catholic schools and universities are the pride of the global church. No other country gives them such generous public funding. Rome would like to have this replicated elsewhere, ...

A momentous chapter was written in South Australia's religious and cultural history as the Igbo Catholic faithful gathered ...

Ranked in the top 10 Catholic universities*, we’re also a leader in employability with 95 per cent of our graduates employed**. The university has seven campuses around Australia, a campus in Rome, ...