Minto on Sydney's far western fringe is home to an unlikely group of modern day Franciscan Friars.
Drawing on God for their inspiration and sporting success - Compass examines how three high profile Rugby League players turn to prayer and worship for team motivation, to see them through challeng
Fourteen billion years of evolution is being swayed by a thousand years of human excess.
A case study in values and ethics through the eyes of well-known social researcher and psychologist Hugh Mackay.
A hard-headed and provocative dissection of the moral ambiguities underlying contemporary attitudes to torture.
In this two-part special Geraldine Doogue travels to our near neighbour, the world's most populous Muslim country, where a battle is underway for the hearts and minds of believers.
There are about 250-thousand Muslims living in Australia and they hail from vastly different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
After Labor's defeat in the 2004 Federal Election they did a fair bit of soul searching. Kevin Rudd, the then Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs thinks a lot of it had to do with the God Factor.
Robina Courtin, an Australian-born Buddhist nun with a powerhouse personality, believes she has the key to freedom for some of the toughest criminals in the land.
John Bradley was in his early 20s when as a new teacher he was sent to the remote aboriginal community of Borroloola in the Northern Territory.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are two of the three 'Bali Nine' facing execution for drug trafficking. They live each day in hope and fear knowing it could be their last.
Rookwood Necropolis, literally the City of the Dead, lies in outer Sydney. Since 1867 around 800 000 thousand souls have been laid to rest in its park-like grounds.
The journey of Saintly relics' from their village homes in the Lebanese mountains outside Beirut to the suburban Maronite parishes of Australia, provides an revealing insight into this little known
Mary MacKillop, the Melbourne-born daughter of Scottish migrants, was undoubtedly a remarkable woman: she co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph, sailed to Rome to secure Papal endorsement of her Orde
What do young Jewish boys and girls feel as they approach the important occasion of their Bar and Bat Mitzvah?
Schools have become a sort of summary of different Australian values and aspirations.
A couple of years ago former hard rocker Paul Stewart was dying of liver failure in a Melbourne hospital. His life of excess had finally caught up with him.
This is the story of three women who were once nuns. Although they took their vows for life, they found they couldn't keep them.
There is a crisis in the Catholic Church in Australia. The shortage of priests and the workload forced upon those that are left is literally killing parish priests.
On a hot summer's day 20 years ago a crime shattered the tight-knit religious community at New Norcia in Western Australia.
