Understanding seven languages, working for 20 years as an Augustine missionary and later archbishop in Chiclayo, Peru, a diocese sounding very like his home town of Chicago, Robert Prevost stands […]
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Teen brings out our best
Peter Dutton’s demise was due to a number of factors but perhaps his commitment to harshly restricting immigration was resented personally by many migrant voters across the nation. As citizens […]
Read MoreNo fuss Pope Francis
Perhaps only in regaling the dead are we sufficiently circumspect and emotively staid, where our capacity to succinctly celebrate the life and times of the deceased becomes therapeutic and comforting […]
Read MoreODD REQUEST BY COUNCIL FOR MONEY
One might expect that a city council with multicultural ties will occasionally publicly express opinions about foreign homelands but such talk should be cheap and not involve magnanimous donations of […]
Read MoreUkraine knows it has a friend Down Under
Writing brilliantly in Friday’s The Daily Telegraph, Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko shows his diplomatic skills, setting a tone of reconciliation and foresight as he considers the possibility of […]
Read MoreWaging the good fight against rising hatred
The issues raised in one of the best editorials of the year are certainly timely and focus on a central conundrum for editors worldwide. There is a hypothetical risk that […]
Read MoreRudd’s US redemption
Everyone loves a story of redemption, where a once besmirched citizen performs public penance and achieves a well-earned forgiveness in the eyes of the fair minded. Whether it be a […]
Read MoreBiden’s shaky legacy
With four more days of President Joe Biden’s rule, there might be some uncertainty of how history will judge him. Occasionally rational, sometimes not, his claims that he reduced the […]
Read MoreJewish people deserve backing of majority
In this season, as we celebrate the birth (in the line of King David) of Jesus of Nazareth, no one in the entire world will argue that the Son of […]
Read MoreA cheerful dose of common sense
In wishing fellow letter writers, Telegraph staff and readers a Happy New Year, I’m appreciative of the kind acknowledgments of writer GPB (DT, 12/12) when he extolled the mission statement […]
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