Dispatches

The Vatican sent mixed messages to the People rsquo s Republic of China before and at the end of Pope Francis rsquo s two-country Asia visit which ended earlier this week In mid-December the Pope declined to meet the Dalai Lama who was visiting Rome At the time the Vatican cited the sensitivity

The answer is not migration. The answer is development.

Last night at the Mission Church of Santa Clara University in Santa Clara California Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga Archbishop of Tegucigalpa Honduras President of Caritas Internationalis and Head of the Pope rsquo s Council of Cardinals the so-called ldquo Gang of Nine rdquo pr

Top percentage world’s population will possess more wealth than other 99 percent by 2016.

Religious leaders are helping to heal the city.

In a wide-ranging press conference on the flight from Manila to Rome Pope Francis spoke about corruption in Governments and the Church the need for prudence with freedom of expression why he didn rsquo t meet the Dalai Lama recently and the Church rsquo s position on birth control nbsp He talke

Before a record crowd of between six and seven million people Pope Francis entrusted a double mission to the Philippine Church at his last public mass in this country on Sunday January 18 that included both a domestic and an Asian component At the domestic level he encouraged them to work for jus

Pope Francis didn rsquo t mince his words when he addressed the state authorities and church leaders of the Philippines He called on them to combat and eliminate ldquo the scandalous rdquo social inequalities and injustices as well as the corruption that is widespread in this land where more th

Manila came to a standstill Thursday evening Jan 15 as some two million people young and old ran out onto the streets and malls of this metropolis of 10 million inhabitants singing and dancing to welcome ldquo Papa Francisco rdquo It was but the beginning of a four-day lsquo fiesta rsquo