Dispatches

Podcast investigates case of Baltimore teen convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999.

Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott who will chair the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the world rsquo s 20 largest economies that will be held in Brisbane Nov 15-16 The G20 includes the 19 major developed and developing economies of the w

Lottos do give money to schools. That doesn’t mean they’re worth it.

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