Dispatches

‘He is going there as a sign of love and esteem and this is a very powerful message,’ says Cardinal Francis Arinze.

“Create in Me a Clean Heart” is in many respects a big step forward for the U.S. church.

The pope’s upcoming visit to East Africa nations Kenya and Uganda and the Central African Republic will be a source of great spiritual sustenance to the people of the region.

Most clergy want to know if their style is not working, or if they could be doing something better. Could there be an app for that?

The cheery rosy-faced London “bobby” was nowhere to be seen. In his place were pairs of flak-jacketed and heavily-armed Metropolitan Police and there were rumors that the SAS, Britain’s elite special forces, were on the streets too.

Some of the terrorists were heard shouting out “Allah u-Akbar” (“Allah is Great!”) as they launched their deadly attacks in Paris.

Some of Paris’ wounds are hidden; others are quite literally buried. Friday night’s events showed us the bloody gash of violence and opened up a new and seemingly more terrible wound.

The state’s choice of language casts executions in a similarly reassuring,“it’s better this way” kind of light as assisted suicide.

Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi could be charged for “conspiring in the crime of divulgation of confidential news and documents.”

Pope Francis issued a clarion call to the Italian church to radically renew itself by adopting “the sentiments of Jesus: humility, disinterest and beatitude.”