In short: The High Court will hear a challenge to the Catholic Church's liability over the abuse of a five-year-old boy by an assistant priest in regional Victoria in 1971. Lower courts have accepted ...

Warning: This story contains disturbing details of sexual abuse. The Archdiocese of Vancouver has admitted in court documents sexual abuse of a man by a priest and a Christian Brother and its ...

Australia's highest court has freed the Catholic Church of liability over some cases of child sexual abuse by priests, potentially destroying claims by victim-survivors. The High Court on Wednesday ...