One of the signs of a functioning democracy is confidence in data from the government.

Members of Mr. Turnbull’s government have taken to sounding downright Trumpian in recent days.

If we think the Benedict Option is going to be easier than the messy reality of modern parish life, we have not yet seen it clearly.

The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.

After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.