Rob Harris

3 days ago | smh.com.au | Rob Harris

By Rob Harris May 12, 2025 — 7.11am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rome: Pope Leo XIV issued a powerful call for peace during his first Sunday address as pontiff, urging world leaders to end violence and echoing the words of his predecessor as he declared: “No more war.”The new pope’s voice rang out from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 worshippers below.

3 days ago | watoday.com.au | Rob Harris

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4 days ago | smh.com.au | Rob Harris

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Along the Kremlin Wall in Moscow lies the grave of Paul Freeman – buried beside Soviet leaders and revolutionaries. An unlikely resting place for a prospector who once worked the copper fields of outback Queensland, Freeman’s story is a gripping – and unsettling – glimpse into Australia’s postwar history. His journey from the bush to Bolshevik martyrdom began in obscurity.

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Rob Harris

By Rob Harris May 10, 2025 — 1.44pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rome: He wasn’t the frontrunner. Nor was he the champion of any particular ideology or tradition. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost hadn’t even considered himself a likely contender. Yet, in the end, it was the Chicago-born cleric who emerged from the Vatican’s secretive conclave, surprising many outside observers, but making quiet sense to those within.

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Rob Harris

By Rob Harris May 10, 2025 — 8.06am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pope Leo XIV has warned of a “desperate” crisis of faith in his first Mass as head of the Catholic Church, urging the global institution to respond to rising secularism and to serve as a moral beacon amid growing reliance on materialism and technology.