Dispatches

We realized in the new encyclical, “Laudato Si,'” what people haven’t talked about much is that Pope Francis has over 30 paragraphs that talk about politics and the role of politics. He speaks about creating an economy of inclusion. We realized that you can’t have an economy of inclusion without a politics of inclusion.

The broadcast networks are lucky to have two or three new shows make it to a second season.

The Vatican Publishing House, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, published the Italian version of that final synod report without the results of the voting on each paragraph, against Pope Francis’ directive.

After decades of struggle for tertiary education and political liberation, a new generation remains trapped in what is now a kind of “democratic poverty.” Democracy has not delivered the goods.

Cardinal Turkson noted the pope’s concern that “the more that people live through their digital tools, the less they may learn ‘how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously.’”

The Vatican Gendarmerie has arrested a Spanish monsignor working in the Roman Curia and an Italian lay woman for their alleged roles in leaking confidential and reserved information.

The simple and profoundly moving ceremony took place at five o’clock Saturday evening, Oct. 31, in the chapel of Santa Marta.