WORLD YOUTH DAY 
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out on Sydney's streets to catch a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI. (Getty Images)
Pope departs as WYD draws to an end
Pope Benedict XVI has flown out of Sydney today, bringing a week of World Youth Day festivities to an end. read more...
YOUR SAY...
HAS THE POPE DONE ENOUGH FOR VICTIMS OF CHURCH SEX ABUSE?
Deirdre Whitford from Sydney says:The Holy Father's two public apologies to church sex abuse victims were compassionate and apparently heartfelt, but personally I am hoping that he also took the opportunity to instruct his bishops to note Fr Chris Riley's suggestions. Counselling and even consoling victims is not going to heal...
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Pilgrims offered half-price entry to Sexpo
World Youth Day pilgrims encouraged to 'procreate or perish' by Cardinal George Pell have been offered half-price tickets to Sydney's sex exhibition. read more...
WYD asylum seekers 'to rise'
Tuesday, 12th August,2008The leader of Australia's catholics, Cardinal George Pell, has told SBS it's "not entirely unexpected" that World Youth Day pilgrims could seek asylum in the country once their three-month visa expires. read more...
Indian pilgrims in NZ get grace period
Monday, 11th August,2008One-month entry visas have now expired for a group of Indian pilgrims who disappeared in New Zealand while on a stopover en route to World Youth Day in Sydney. read more...
Fischer to be Vatican ambassador
Monday, 21st July,2008Former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer will become Australia's first resident ambassador to the Vatican. read more...
Groups angry over shun
Monday, 21st July,2008Support groups of church sex abuse victims voiced their disappointment over being excluded from meeting with the Pope.
AUDIO: Anthony Foster speaks to SBS Online read more...
Pope meets sex abuse victims
Monday, 21st July,2008Pope Benedict XVI this morning met with a four people who have been abused by Catholic clergy in Australia, in a private mass at St Mary's. read more...
Sport and religion find common ground
Sunday, 20th July,2008With a scattering of national flags and large groups of people singing and chanting, WYD looks and sounds like a sporting event. read more...
Hundreds of thousands gather for pope's youth finale
Sunday, 20th July,2008Pope Benedict XVI led hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in an open-air mass in Sydney on Sunday, ending a week of World Youth Day festivities marked by a historic papal apology for priestly sex abuse. read more...
Sacred sexiness: WYD sex education
Sunday, 20th July,2008The fluorescent lighting inside the small class room killed any prospect of intimate ambience. Young faces reflected an innocence long gone in the contemporary world of sexual promiscuity. read more...
Pope warns of 'spiritual desert' in modern world
Sunday, 20th July,2008Pope Bendict XVI said Sunday that World Youth Day in Australia had been an unforgettable experience but warned that a "spiritual desert" was spreading in the modern world. read more...
Killing Jesus 'awesome': Catholic actor
Sunday, 20th July,2008It's a rare thing indeed to share the stage with Jesus – but it's even rarer to be the man who kills him. David Ramli reports on the Stations of the Cross re-enactment. read more...
Pope's final mass of WYD underway
Sunday, 20th July,2008The final event of Sydney's World Youth Day is underway with Pope Benedict XVI taking the stage before an estimated crowd of up to half a million people to celebrate mass. read more...
WYD Catechesis ignores some ugly truths
Sunday, 20th July,2008After attending a WYD Catechesis, David Ramli finds out he is almost certainly going to hell...and so are three quarters of the Australian population. read more...
Pope flies over pilgrims at Randwick
Sunday, 20th July,2008Pope Benedict XVI has flown in a helicopter over the Southern Cross precinct in Sydney's east, seeing for himself the hundreds of thousands gathered for this morning's papal mass. read more...
Past Papal apologies
Saturday, 19th July,2008Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II in have admitted errors by the church.
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Pope sorry over sex abuse, victims want more
Saturday, 19th July,2008Pope Benedict XVI issued a landmark apology to thousands of Australians sexually abused as minors by clergymen, but victims said they wanted more than words. read more...