Dispatches

It rsquo s meant to be over by nbsp noon nbsp on April 1 so they say It doesn rsquo t work after midday and you rsquo re not allowed to come out with any April Fools gags after then although it rsquo s not clear what purgatorial penance might await a malefactor mdash perpetual exposure to extreme

Critics charge Barros had been involved in the cover-up of the abuse of minors.

The church operates the world’s largest non-governmental school system.

On the day before he departed Rome to attend events at Loyola University in Chicago Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi wrote from his Twitter account ldquo Departing for the country of Dickinson Poe Whitman Melville Hemingway Kerouac F O rsquo Connor Salinger Roth Bellow Updike rdquo In 140 c

An interview with the pope’s private secretary in La Nación

RhodesMustFall has become a headline story and frequently used hash-tag in social media It is has become the label given to a raging debate around curricula race white privilege and colonialism at institutions of higher learning in South Africa The Rhodes Must Fall campaign began at one of Afri

In a highly original initiative ahead of Pope Francis rsquo visit to New York in September Catholics from across the United States are being given an opportunity to donate small personal silver coins or objects that can be used in the making of the chalice that he will use when he celebrates mas

Cardinal Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, spoke of Richard’s baptism.