Mary MacKillop (1842-1909) is set to become Australia's first saint.

As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

Brian Tamaki says he is shocked a sex abuse allegations against his 'spiritual father', Eddie Long.

A US man who travelled to NZ to spread the word of God - and whom Brian Tamaki called his 'spiritual father' - is accused of sexually assaulting young men.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Garth George writes that the bigot who plans to burn the Koran shows that religious leaders of any faith can be serving Satan.

Advertising posters depicting the Pope as a paedophile and Prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber have been ripped down.

Church-run book bonfire shows depth of anti-Islamic sentiment simmering in US.

A Christian school's Board of Trustees has been told to attend a human rights course after sacking a netball coach because he was gay.

Church and state pomp abound in Ecuador's capital writes Jim Eagles.

The Human Rights Commission has bowed to Catholic Church objections to a statement that NZ was a secular state and religion was only for the "private sphere".

At the peak of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, the discipline plan American bishops adopted prompted dioceses to remove nearly all accused clergy from the priesthood.

'I once again express my deep sorrow and offer a sincere and unreserved apology to all victims of sexual abuse,' says Archbishop Denis Hart.