Dispatches

Pope Francis will hold a Consistory for the creation of new cardinals on 14-15 February 2015 nbsp He has also convened a meeting of the entire College of Cardinals for the two days prior to that event but has not yet disclosed the topic s they will discuss nbsp Father Federico Lombardi S J t

ldquo No Longer Slaves But Brothers and Sisters rdquo That is the title of Pope Francis rsquo s Message for the World Day of Peace that will be celebrated on Jan 1 2015 in which he describes modern slavery as ldquo a global phenomenon rdquo and calls for a worldwide mobilization ldquo to e

Author Eric Schlosser spent six years researching the safety record of the keepers of America rsquo s diminished but still vast nuclear arsenal The most shocking thing he rsquo s learned ldquo That the difference between safety and catastrophe in the United States has come down to a single switch

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