The Age: Residents of the small community of Tonimbuk are sifting through the ruins of homes and properties in the wake of the ferocious Bunyip fire. Tonimbuk, a rural hamlet home to 208 people, was among the areas hardest hit…

USAToday: First responders in southeast Alabama hunted for survivors Monday after a devastating tornado killed at least 23 people, smashed homes, and toppled power lines and a massive steel cell tower. The tornado Sunday was part of a powerful storm system…

Breitbart – PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives. After being asked by the Wall Street Journal what “values” PayPal…

Fox News: Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican bill that would have threatened prison time for doctors who don’t try saving the life of infants born alive during failed abortions. . . . All prominent Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls in the…

The Atlantic: …A conference on “global fraternity” has featured rabbis, imams, swamis, cardinals, and obscure religious officiaries whose titles I had never heard before. …The assembled clerics, seemingly one of every type, were a sort of warm-up crew for the…

CNSNews: According to Vatican observer Edwin Pentin, it [was] “not clear” whether “the role of homosexuality in the abuse crisis” [would] be addressed at the Vatican summit on clergy sexual abuse. . . . One thing is for sure: every…

CNN: In a remarkable admission, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up. “Files that could have documented the terrible deeds…

Deutsche Welle: Turkey appears to be building a military infrastructure independent of NATO – much to the annoyance of Washington. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might need that new S-400 missile defense system at home. Turkey has risked the anger…

CNSNews: On Monday night, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) used her authority to table a bill in the Senate that would have prohibited the killing of a child that survives an abortion and instituted penalties for any health worker who…

America Magazine: Pope Francis made history this morning when he celebrated Mass for more than 135,000 Catholics from many nations and cultures at the Zayed Sports stadium in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It was the largest Christian…

Fortune: Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence [AI] and how to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, Reuters reports. The Vatican’s Academy for Life, a research…

Just days after the pope signed the most important interfaith document in history; he had the opportunity to address global political leaders by video at the World Government Summit in Dubai. During his remarks he once again stressed the need…