Updated: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims – US report
Updated: 8:45am, 24th May, 2022United StatesAP The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee – and thousands of its rank-and-file members – now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations. The report, issued […]
Essay: He’s Australia’s 31st Prime Minister. So who is Anthony Albanese?
In an article first published on The Conversation which was written before Saturday’s election, PAUL STRANGLO, professor of politics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, looks at the life of the man today sworn-in as Australia’s next leader…
Pope voices hope church in China can operate in freedom
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China, voicing hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility,’’ but making no mention of a 90-year-old cardinal who was recently arrested in Hong Kong. Addressing the public gathered in St Peter’s Square for the pontiff’s traditional Sunday remarks, Francis […]
Sight-Seeing: Avoiding a deadlocked conclave
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that before he dies or retires, Pope Francis needs to make changes in the process of electing a new pope to avoid the possibility of a deadlocked conclave…
California church leaders, shooting survivors join in prayer
Laguna Woods, California AP When a gunman began shooting at a Taiwanese American church luncheon, Shoei Su said he froze. The retired appraiser uses a walker and said he and many of the elderly congregants didn’t immediately know what was happening. He said the shooter said nothing before firing on churchgoers who were snapping photos […]
Australia swears in new Labor PM ahead of Quad meeting
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia’s Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese was sworn in as the country’s 31st Prime Minister on Monday, promising a “journey of change” as he vowed to tackle climate change, rising living costs and inequality. Labor returns to power after nine years in opposition as a wave of unprecedented support for the Greens […]