Australians have an attitude problem when it comes to Aboriginal people, according to Bishop Christopher Saunders, Bishop of Broome, declaring reconciliation 'unfinished business' on the national agenda.

Australian Reforming Catholics says that the Archdiocese in Brisbane risks reducing the Sacraments "to the realm of the magical" by claiming that children at a South Brisbane Church have been invalidly baptised.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in Califormia last Thursday paid the largest ever settlement for victims of the sexual abuse by clergy with a record $100 million to its 87 victims.

A horrifying report from Tanzania has prompted the head of a Melbourne Catholic Aids agency to again call for the removal of a Catholic priest from the Australian government's HIV/AIDS advisory subcommittee.