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AS the senate leader, Mr Withers was the orchestrator of Mr Whitlam's downfall in 1975, an act that etched him in Australia's political history. Mr Withers' son Simon said his father should be remembered as a major, colourful figure in Australian politics. "Dad wasn't really an ideological person. |
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Reg "Toecutter" Withers, a former Fraser government minister and the architect of Gough Whitlam's downfall, has died at the age of 90. As the senate leader, Mr Withers was the orchestrator of Mr Whitlam's downfall in 1975, an act that etched him in Australia's political history. |
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Three deliberate thuds echoed through Holy Name Cathedral on Monday night, as the next leader of 2.2 million Catholics signaled his arrival to the Chicago Archdiocese. Blase Cupich began his homily Monday by thanking Cardinal Francis George, Chicago's first retiring archbishop and the man he'll replace Tuesday. |
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“He’s gone,” she said. Buy Photo Smith broke down immediately. Salia had been his mentor in the years they worked together in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. Like Salia’s other colleagues and former students, Smith remembered him as one of the country’s hardest-working doctors, a man who always craved more knowledge about the profession he loved. |
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Three deliberate thuds echoed through the rafters of Holy Name Cathedral on Monday night as incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich signaled his arrival to the Chicago Archdiocese.
The Rite of Reception kicked off three days of Roman Catholic rituals marking his installation as Chicago's ninth archbishop. |
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Three deliberate thuds echoed through the rafters of Holy Name Cathedral on Monday night as incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich signaled his arrival to the Chicago Archdiocese.
The Rite of Reception kicked off three days of Roman Catholic rituals marking his installation as Chicago's ninth archbishop. |
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An occasional column looking back at The New York Times’s first reference to some standbys of science. In 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Roman Catholic priest and astronomer from Belgium, first proposed the theory that the universe was born in a giant primeval explosion. |
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It is difficult to believe how much the religious atmosphere of Ireland has changed over the lifetime of many of us. Life itself, of course, has changed radically in the last 60 or so years.
For those of us who are older, if our parents, or certainly our grandparents were to return for a glimpse of.... |
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Millions of Rwandans and other Kinyarwanda speakers have struggled to understand why changes were recently introduced in the language’s orthography. The new instructions on how to write Kinyarwanda were gazetted last month and left those who write the language a period of two years to comply with the new style. |
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, about why the academy has chosen to change the orthography only two-and-a-half years since the institution became operational and what plans are there to make the language users aware of the new changes. Excerpts: It’s been two-and-a-half years since you assumed office and recently you came up.... |
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McConahay was the only print journalist on the scene; her colleagues were radio reporters, and Father José María Tojeira, who was the provincial of the Jesuits of Central America, took her inside the residence. “There I saw, in the hall, … it’s a very small building with bedrooms facing, I saw.... |
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