Catholic voters helped anchor Donald Trump’s political rise. Now bishops, immigration conflicts and a widening moral debate are testing that alliance. Inside churches and parishes, a struggle is ...

Across Australia, parents are told the path to success runs through the “right” school and the highest possible exam scores.

The anniversary of the National Apology recalls a rare moment of moral clarity in Australian public life — one marked by ...

In Ukraine, war is no longer distant from daily life but woven into it: power cuts, air-raid sirens, hurried phone calls and ...

The Epstein files expose something much bleaker than conspiracy. They reveal a ruling class who knew precisely who Jeffrey ...

A five-hour streaming remake of Amadeus prompts a return to Peter Shaffer: his theatrical magic, his taste for melodrama, and ...

At Davos, Mark Carney’s blunt assessment of the rules-based order helps explain why citizens sense the system no longer ...

In this brisk, entertaining history, polymath MP Andrew Leigh reveals innovation as a collective triumph: governments leading risky leaps, teams tripling paper authorships, chance calligraphy classes ...

In the streets of Minnesota, protests erupt one after another against ICE's aggressive raids ignited by the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti amid sweeping deportations. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One ...

When a culture cannot recognise goodness in those who disagree with it, it will prefer destruction to transformation. Speaking to political and economic leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in ...

A murder mystery about priests sounds like a recipe for satire or scandal. Instead, Wake Up Dead Man offers something rarer: a mainstream film that treats Catholicism as a serious moral vision, ...

In protracted conflicts, calls for peaceful coexistence often provoke more fury. When someone insists both peoples share humanity and a future, they threaten narratives, power, profit and the ...