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George Pell was a former Archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney, and senior Vatican cleric.

Victims of sexual abuse by George Pell receive compensation under redress scheme

Two men abused by the late Cardinal George Pell in the 1970s have been granted compensation by the federal government’s National Redress Scheme, with one offered $45,000 just weeks before Pell’s death in 2022.

  • Cameron Houston

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My Catholicism lapsed long ago, so why can’t I let go of the relics?

Sometimes logic doesn’t explain the hidden feelings and belief systems we carry in our hearts, or the sentiment we ascribe to certain items.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Our columnist Barney Zwartz twice covered papal conclaves in Rome – and reckons the film Conclave nails it.

There are few elections more political than the one to choose a new pope

They say politics should be separate from religion – but is that possible?

  • Barney Zwartz
A battle is underway over the governance of Australian Catholic University

It’s Sydney and Melbourne versus Brisbane to decide the future of Australia’s Catholic Church

A wider battle over the future of the Catholic Church is fuelling conflict over the leadership and direction of an Australian university.

  • Jordan Baker
Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the film Conclave.

Who will be the next pope?

The release of the film Conclave has once again thrown the spotlight on one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope.

  • Rob Harris
An Italian priest is being investigated for manslaughter over the death of a newborn baby left outside the doors of his church.

Priest investigated for manslaughter over death of newborn left on church doorstep

The newborn, believed to be a month old, was found dead on January 2 inside the church’s “thermal cradle”, a device set up for unwanted babies to be left anonymously.

  • Josephine McKenna
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Sister Simona Brambilla in 2019.

Francis names the first woman to head a major Vatican office. Then gives her a male co-leader

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla will be responsible for every religious order, from Jesuit and Franciscan priests to the Mercy nuns and smaller movements.

  • Nicole Winfield
It’s embarrassing to be going to war over hair colour and dress codes in schools – chiefly because they don’t matter.

The bank of nan and pop has undermined the fair go

Jordan Baker’s article about the growing ubiquity of the bank of nan and pop in the payment of school fees should make us very concerned about the direction our society has decided to follow.

St Alipius Presbytary and church in Ballarat where ribbons are tied to the fence to symbolise the abuse of catholic priests.

Nation’s top lawmakers to meet after Catholic Church found not liable for clerical abuse

Attorneys-general offices will consider urgent legislative reform after a High Court decision that cleared the Catholic Church of paying damages over the abuse of a five-year-old boy.

  • Cameron Houston
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome.

Has Mary Magdalene finally been found in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel?

The famous female disciple of Jesus may have been identified among 300 tangled figures depicted in the Sistine Chapel masterpiece.

  • Josephine McKenna

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