Pope Francis's child protection board has issued its first global assessment of the Catholic Church's efforts to address the clergy sex abuse crisis.
Alvise Armellini
Pope Francis' years-long process to reform the Catholic Church has closed with recommendations that fell far short of giving women more equity as hoped.
Staff Writers
A historical landmark on Albany’s main street has been put on the market for over $1 million with concept plans picturing the iconic site renovated into a boutique hotel or apartment building.
Melissa Sheil
The new Bishop of Broome will be the third man in recent years to lead the huge diocese which covers the Kimberley.
LGBTQ activists have met the Pope at the Vatican and urged him to reverse a Catholic ban on gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.
Taiwan officials think the Chinese Communist Party has been seeking to influence Taiwanese believers with subsidised visits to China and religious exchanges.
Laurie Chen and Xiaoyu Yin
On the eve of the Vatican summit, known as a synod, Pope Francis has asked pardon for the church's treatment of women and survivors of abuse.
Pope Francis has finished his visit to Belgium by celebrating mass in which gave a strong condemnation of Catholic clergy abuse.
Joshua McElwee
Former US president Jimmy Carter has been honoured ahead of his 100th birthday with a musical gala at Atlanta's Fox Theatre.
Pope Francis' longest and farthest trip has proven that despite his age, ailments and jet lag, he can still pull off an ambitious trip to Asia
Nicole Winfield
An alleged cult in West Leederville is relocating after community backlash and a council crackdown on its operations.
Harriet Flinn
Pope Francis has urged Singapore's political leaders to seek fair wages for the country's foreign workers, as he undertakes the final leg of his tour in Asia.
Pope Francis has flown to Singapore for the final leg of his trip through Asia, a day after leading a mass in East Timor with one of the largest-ever turnouts.
Pope Francis has become only the second pontiff to visit Papua New Guinea as he arrived in the capital for the second leg of his ambitious trip to the region.
The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Canning is set to undergo a $50,000 upgrade of its community centre after the local council locked away their new lease.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
A Labor MP has slammed the Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse, citing dozens of alleged perpetrators referred to police in the Perth Archdiocese in the last five years.
Jake Dietsch
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth referred more than 70 alleged child sexual abusers to WA Police in the past five years, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Hannah Cross
Pope Francis's weekly general audience has been briefly interrupted by women from an animal rights group who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting.
An anti-Islamophobia group has lodged a religious vilification complaint against Peter Dutton, alleging he called Muslim political candidates a "disaster".
Alex Mitchell
Pope Francis has named a new church leader in Boston after the retirement of Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who's long been one of the pontiff's key US advisers.
For Molly Hunt, her mural representing the Garma themes of fire, strength and renewal at the bunggul (dance) grounds is a way to connect with others.
Keira Jenkins
The government is being accused of abandoning its commitment to truth-telling and treaty as the prime minister says it is "talking through" a Makarrata process.
Indigenous leaders have reflected on the voice referendum defeat as the prime minister spoke of old roads and new paths in tackling disadvantage.
Australia's largest Indigenous cultural festival has officially opened with bunggul (dance) as the prime minister joined attendees in Arnhem Land.
