Dispatches

Pope Francis on Holy Thursday spoke about the ldquo tiredness rdquo or quot weariness quot that Catholic priests experience in their daily ministry often in very difficult and dangerous situations and offered advice on how they should deal with it He did so in an incisive and profound homily

Each of the churches in question was once the home of a pedophile priest.

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