Former Australian minister Jacinta Collins retires as head of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC), hailed for ...

Australia’s Catholic bishops have elected Archbishop Timothy Costelloe as their new leader. Costelloe, a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco, is the first member of a religious order to serve as ...

The agenda for the Second Assembly of Australia's Plenary Council was disrupted July 6 after more than 60 of the 277 members staged a protest over issues regarding women in the church, including the ...

A young woman leaves St. Mary’s Cathedral after a Mass in Sydney Feb. 12, 2013. Australia’s Catholic population fell by 2.7% between 2011 and 2016, but Catholics are more likely to have a higher ...

The Catholic Church has a long and prominent role in the history and development of Australia over more than two centuries. Now that history has its own YouTube channel in a bid to make it more ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced Nov. 12 that a national royal commission would investigate institutional responses to allegations of child sexual abuse in Australia. The commission will look at ...

Australia’s Catholic Church has rejected calls for priests to be compelled to report child abuse revealed in confessionals. The Church said Friday it would accept “98%” of recommendations made by a ...

In a far-reaching report on child sex abuse in Australia, a government commission is recommending that the country's Catholic Church lift its celibacy requirement for diocesan clergy and be required ...

Seven percent of Catholic priests in Australia between 1950 and 2010 allegedly sexually abused children, according to data provided by church authorities in a major investigation. Australia is the ...

Archbishop Costelloe, who was born in Melbourne in 1954, noted that Archbishop Coleridge led the conference at a difficult time for the Catholic Church in Australia. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe at St ...