Royal Australian Air Force planes have completed their first operational missions over Iraq, supporting an international coalition against IS militants |
Comment: Anti-Islam crusaders are doing identical work to the terrorists they condemn. |
Olivia Hinojosa, a staff from the Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA), shows copies of the comic book "A Pope Named Francis: A Man of Mission and Compassion," on Tuesday, September 30. The comic book, which depicts Pope Francis as a model in transforming Catholic social teaching, will be.... |
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has directed the mobilization of government resources to ensure the smooth and orderly visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines early next year. Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said that the President issued Memorandum Circular 72 creating the Papal Visit.... |
TONY Abbott says a row over facial coverings in parliament will be resolved before MPs sit again, as he admitted failing to read a note about the plan. |
TONY Abbott has asked Speaker Bronwyn Bishop to reconsider a controversial plan to segregate people who wear the burqa into separate areas of Parliament House. |
Tony Abbott wants parliament's presiding officers to reconsider their controversial burqa segregation decision. |
A correctional officer at the Cook County Jail who ordered and then took part in the beating of a mentally ill inmate was convicted this afternoon on multiple counts of official misconduct, perjury, battery and obstruction of justice. |
But, of course, leaving the teachings of the Church to that kind of subjective interpretation by bishops and priests - making that age-old tradition of ambiguity the guiding principle of the papacy - threatens to disappoint and frustrate people across the Catholic spectrum. |
TONY Abbott wants parliament's presiding officers to reconsider their controversial burqa segregation decision. |