Dispatches

QUITO ldquo I thank God for having allowed me to return to Latin America and to be here with you today in this beautiful land of Ecuador rdquo With these words a visibly happy Pope greeted the Ecuadorian people and then went onto appeal for dialogue and nbsp reconciliation in the land soon aft

The significance of this mounting and rapidly developing Greek tragedy most politicians in Europe agree is its likely effect on the stability of the single currency the beleaguered euro if not on the whole European project itself If there is a Greek exit the vaunted ldquo Grexit rdquo from

Pope Francis returns with joy to Latin America this Sunday July 5 and is expected to be given a rapturous welcome by millions of people during his seven-day visit to Ecuador Bolivia and Paraguay On the eve of his departure he went to the Basilica of St Mary Major rsquo s in Rome to pray before t

An interview with Chicago’s new archbishop

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis lived through a similar economic and social crisis.

The path forward can happen only through love and openness to one another.

Pope Francis has created a new Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia into which all existing Vatican communications offices and operations will be incorporated At the same time he has appointed the Italian Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigano Director of the Vatican Television Center as it

It will probably come as no surprise that this morning rsquo s Supreme Court decision was not exactly welcomed by representatives of the U S bishops rsquo conference Its president Archbishop Joseph Kurtz described the Obergefell v Hodges decision as a ldquo tragic error rdquo and other reactio

Reading the encyclical we might ask ourselves, where did all that kid common sense go?