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This was the week Australia's religious institutions came face to face with accountability, and mostly came off second best.

In Sydney, ICAC's Operation Rosny put the head of taxpayer-funded Catholic Schools NSW in the witness box over undeclared donations to a hard-right Liberal faction.

In North Parramatta, a parliamentary inquiry heard that a Baptist school and church described as a "cult" put a dog collar and lead on a child.

And in Perth, a District Court jury convicted the former Catholic Bishop of Broome of sexually abusing young Aboriginal men.

Three different institutions, three different mechanisms, all testing whether religious standing still buys a pass. This week it did not.

Welcome to the 15 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-15-august-2026/

This was the week Australia's religious institutions came face to face with accountability, and mostly came off second best.

In Sydney, ICAC's Operation Rosny put the head of taxpayer-funded Catholic Schools NSW in the witness box over undeclared donations to a hard-right Liberal faction.

In North Parramatta, a parliamentary inquiry heard that a Baptist school and church described as a "cult" put a dog collar and lead on a child.

And in Perth, a District Court jury convicted the former Catholic Bishop of Broome of sexually abusing young Aboriginal men.

Three different institutions, three different mechanisms, all testing whether religious standing still buys a pass. This week it did not.

Welcome to the 15 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-15-august-2026/

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The Catholic bishops have used their annual Social Justice Statement to warn against "us and them" politics — worth reading alongside the same week's evidence of a Catholic schools body inside a corruption inquiry, and a religious coalition lobbying to keep its tax breaks!

Welcome to the 8 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-8-august-2026/

The Catholic bishops have used their annual Social Justice Statement to warn against "us and them" politics — worth reading alongside the same week's evidence of a Catholic schools body inside a corruption inquiry, and a religious coalition lobbying to keep its tax breaks!

Welcome to the 8 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-8-august-2026/

"When I tell people I’m a nonobservant #Orthodox #Jew, there is usually a small pause, followed by a look that says: Pick one. I understand it. The phrase sounds like a hedge, or like someone claiming a title he hasn’t earned. But I don’t think it’s a contradiction.

It helps to start with where this came from, because it didn’t come from childhood. Until a few years ago, I wasn’t curious about any of it. I was #secular and, on some subjects, actively hostile to religion. What changed was #Oct7, 2023, and then a semester when I was honored to be associated with #Yeshiva University. I came away wanting to know more than I did, and I’ve been picking at that ever since.

I should be clear about the scale of it: I am not a learned man in the #Jewish sense of that word. If you quoted a passage at me, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t recognize it. What I do is modest and improvised."

https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/390840/can-one-be-a-non-observant-orthodox-jew/

"When I tell people I’m a nonobservant #Orthodox #Jew, there is usually a small pause, followed by a look that says: Pick one. I understand it. The phrase sounds like a hedge, or like someone claiming a title he hasn’t earned. But I don’t think it’s a contradiction.

It helps to start with where this came from, because it didn’t come from childhood. Until a few years ago, I wasn’t curious about any of it. I was #secular and, on some subjects, actively hostile to religion. What changed was #Oct7, 2023, and then a semester when I was honored to be associated with #Yeshiva University. I came away wanting to know more than I did, and I’ve been picking at that ever since.

I should be clear about the scale of it: I am not a learned man in the #Jewish sense of that word. If you quoted a passage at me, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t recognize it. What I do is modest and improvised."

https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/390840/can-one-be-a-non-observant-orthodox-jew/

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ICAC's Operation Rosny opened on Monday, and by Friday it had done something the sector rarely manages on its own: put the money of a publicly funded Catholic schools body on the public record. The commission is examining undeclared donations it alleges were arranged and approved by the chief executive of Catholic Schools NSW, inside a Liberal branch-stacking operation whose organisers, on the evidence of two mastheads, knew each other through Opus Dei. It's a clean illustration of religion operating through party machinery and taxpayer money, not from the pulpit.

Welcome to the 1 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-1-august-2026/

ICAC's Operation Rosny opened on Monday, and by Friday it had done something the sector rarely manages on its own: put the money of a publicly funded Catholic schools body on the public record. The commission is examining undeclared donations it alleges were arranged and approved by the chief executive of Catholic Schools NSW, inside a Liberal branch-stacking operation whose organisers, on the evidence of two mastheads, knew each other through Opus Dei. It's a clean illustration of religion operating through party machinery and taxpayer money, not from the pulpit.

Welcome to the 1 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-1-august-2026/

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#MissKitty attempts to take #religion out of #politics cuz politics is supposed to be #secular. Don't care about people's theocratic desires. #Guru has said, and there is no higher authority on Earth, that not everybody can follow one particular #Deity. It just doesn't happen in this world.

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