In March, the Australian Law Reform Commission recommended that faith schools no longer be permitted to preference enrolments and staff according to faith and witness, and that they be required to facilitate “alternate” views on religious and moral matters being taught in their schools.

At the Mass marking the first anniversary of George Pell's death, Sydney's Archbishop Anthony Fisher spoke not only of the Cardinal's resolve, courage and decency but also of the 'media, political and police witch-hunt' that saw him "tried and imprisoned for crimes he did not commit." Here is the full text of the Archbishop's address

Contemporary culture is in some ways as inhospitable to Catholicism as communism. Secularism's reverence for being non-judgmental and 'spiritual' rather than religious heightens the need for evangelical creativity to counter the immunisation of our children against faith