Teachers at Catholic and independent and schools will not join a boycott of the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy tests planned by the Australian Education Union.
An Australian brother from the St John of God Order convicted of sexual abuse in New Zealand is expected to be deported to Australia next year. He has been released from prison after serving 13 of a 33-month sentence.
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby would swap 10 judges for one honest homosexual like singer Ricky Martin, and wants the Federal Government to act on legalising gay marriages.
An evolutionary geneticist, molecular biologist and former Dominican priest Francisco J. Ayala, who has written about evolution and refuted creationism, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize, one of the world's top religion prizes.
Catholic schools in Britain will not be forced to provide "non-judgmental" information about abortion and contraception to students, after the Parliament dropped some clauses in a new education bill.
A man who participated in the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero has named Roberto D'Aubuisson, the deceased founder of the conservative Arena political party, as the person who gave the order to kill him.
We are deluged by one question: "How can you still stay in the Church?" But the "the Church" is not a direct synonym for "the hierarchy, the bishops, the Vatican," writes Mary Gordon.
Pope Benedict is deeply musical and always has been. As he tries to raise musical standards at the Vatican, Michael White gets invited to a papal concert and tells what it's like behind the scenes.
For audiences who declare that they "love a good stoush", there are lots of them in this film. After all, Perseus is the son of Zeus, part human, part god, who vanquishes Hades and his plots, Medusa and the monstrous Kraken.
Sexual abuse continues to dominate the blogs. Some bloggers point to
continuing revelations, while others insist that what we've heard
already is exaggerated and being used to discredit the Church. The National Catholic Reporter's NCR Today
points to more evidence about the late Fr. Marcial Maciel, disgraced
founder of the Legionnaries of Christ, and how he won the favour of
Pope John Paul II.
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