Dispatches

In a series of top level changes in the Roman Curia Pope Francis has appointed the English-born Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher as Secretary for Relations with States ndash the third highest position in the Vatican nbsp nbsp nbsp He succeeds the Moroccan-born Archbishop Dominque Mamberti wh

Cardinal heads now ‘obligated’ to present resignation at 75.

Tomorrow the biggest and perhaps most difficult election in Los Angeles is between two Catholic Democrats as Sheila Kuehl 73 vies against Bobby Shriver 60 for the open seat on the L A County Board of Supervisors Both Kuehl and Shriver were raised Roman Catholic though Kuehl having had a Je

Tremors in European political life are nothing new nor is mass disaffection with conventional politics but what we rsquo re seeing at the moment speaks of a larger malaise Europeans in large numbers are not only questioning the remote and bureaucratic political institutions of the European Union

It probably would not surprise anyone to hear that one of the biggest stories in the video gaming industry right now involves men not knowing how to properly treat women But what exactly that entails will almost certainly stun you In 2013 a video game developer named Zoe Quinn released a choose-you

The Final Report of the synod on the family revealed that the synod has closed no doors all the main questions are still on the table and an absolute majority of the synod fathers are with Pope Francis in favor of a Church that like the Good Samaritan reaches out to care for all her ldquo wounde

The atmosphere is tense around the Vatican on the eve of the vote on the Final Report of the extraordinary synod on the family nbsp It has revived memories of what happened in the early days of the Second Vatican Council those who were here at that time tell me nbsp A number of synod fathers ha

Humanity is a long way from grasping all the potential of the Internet even in the so-called First World where we are all online 24 7 at least so we rsquo re told In recent years we rsquo ve begun to distinguish between nbsp digital natives younger people who rsquo ve known nothing but the digit