Last month I attended a very moving and inspiring event in the Chapter House of St Andrew's Cathedral. It was the occasion of the launch of Bishop John Reid's biography of Archbishop Sir Marcus Loane – an interesting book about a great and distinguished churchman and Australian. The NSW Premier, Bob Carr paid Sir Marcus and Bishop Reid the singular compliment of attending and launching the book.

The French government has officially banned high school students from attending or running Bible studies at school.

Key Australian charities have come out in support of recommendations made by the Senate committee that federal, state and territory governments develop a national strategy to tackle poverty and called for a new anti-poverty unit reporting directly to the Prime Minister.

Rare and remarkable Bibles found their way to Australia in the past 216 years, and some outstanding examples are now on display at the Newcastle City Library.

As The Passion of the Christ continues to strike a chord with filmgoers, churches across Sydney have taken opportunities to capitalise on the sudden interest in Jesus.

The Bishop of South Sydney has called for help in reforming church law to aid the ten per cent goal.

It's official. For high school students wanting to meet the opposite sex, Friday afternoon is the new Saturday night.

Clergy applying for ordination in the Sydney Diocese will have their privacy invaded under tough questioning about past misconduct, Philip Gerber, Director of the Diocese of Sydney's Professional Standards Unit, has admitted. But he says it is an invasion of privacy ‘we had to have'.