Dispatches

Speaking at a conference on the potential and current humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons a two-day event which drew the participation of 150 nations and media from around the world but which has been largely ignored in the United States a representative of the Holy See questioned the persisten

New terms from nightmarish hellscape of cultural devastation that is texting/online lingo

American companies exercise little oversight because few here is demanding that they do.

Last Thursday nbsp December 4 I had the great privilege to sit in on the interview that Pope Francis kindly granted to Elisabetta Piqu for Argentina rsquo s La Nacion newspaper for which she is the Rome correspondent nbsp She is also my wife and author of ldquo Francis Life and Revolution

Twitter campaign calls for not just well-worded political indignation but concrete action.

On Monday rsquo s Feast-day of St Edmund Campion S J perhaps the most illustrious and gifted of the British Jesuit martyrs Heythrop College announced that beginning the next academic year undergraduate students would no longer be enrolled Heythrop has been since the 1970s a constituent coll

Protest leaders call for end to civil disobedience campaign as risk of further violence increased.

History was made in the Vatican today when Pope Francis and other leaders of the world rsquo s main religions mdash Christianity Islam Hinduism Buddhism and Judaism mdash signed a joint declaration to work together to eradicate modern slavery in its various forms by the year 2020 nbsp nbsp Pope

Pope Francis stated unequivocally in Istanbul on November 30 that he as Bishop of Rome and the worldwide Catholic Church desire unity ndash lsquo full communion rsquo – with the 300 million member Orthodox Churches and he added that the only condition for achieving this is ldquo the shared pr