Cardinal Pell has ordered the Sisters of St Joseph not to allow the lay group, Australian Reforming Catholics (ARC), to hold their annual conference at the Sisters' site at McKillop Place in North Sydney next month, and has also directed two priests not to attend.

Australian Catholic ecologists believe that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is being used by the USA Embassy to the Holy See to endorse Genetically Modified (GM) Foods for economic and political purposes.

Pope John Paul II has offered two very different prescriptions to the Bishops of two US States and the Bishops of New Zealand, both on their 5 yearly ad limina visits to Rome.

President Hal Ranger reports on the biennial Conference of the National Council of Priests, Australia's priests reflected on partnership, collaboration, and conversation - and the spiritual lessons of the Australian Bush.