The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, in Australia's state of New South Wales, is rejoicing over having won multiple media honors from the country's Catholic and religious journalism associations. It's ...

NOVOCASTRIANS are "crumbling from the inside out" thanks to the devastating impacts of historic sex offences within the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese, survivors and advocates say.

Today marks the start of the first public hearings into alleged cover-ups of child sexual abuse investigations within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, reports the Maitland Mercury. By his ...

The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle will subdivide land behind one of its Hunter schools to create a new housing estate in one of the region's fastest-growing towns. Newcastle Herald news director.

The Hunter Valley in New South Wales, two hours north of Sydney, is best known for its vineyards, surf beaches, coal mines and polluting power stations. But in recent years, the region has also become ...

After eight weeks of intense, graphic and sometimes sad testimony, public hearings have ended for the New South Wales special commission of inquiry into clerical abuse in the Maitland-Newcastle ...

The Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Bishop has defended moving into a house in Maitland linked to historical child sex abuse cases. Bishop Bill Wright is moving to the Old Bishops House in Maitland, ...