Dispatches

It all began on Aug. 14, 1549, when St. Francis Xavier arrived and introduced Christianity.

“It’s like being in the room with him and listening in to a very special conversation. It’s him; it’s the real man coming through loud and clear.”

The slurs against London’s new Muslim mayor began long before his election.

The world’s biggest mammal had just let me down. And not not for the first time.

Edna Kenny has, as we say here, provided an Irish solution to an Irish problem.

“The nuncio is here to help build communion between the local church and Pope Francis.”

As the Duterte campaign gained momentum, rhetoric from Catholic elites hardened.

Francis responded to questions relating to the separation of church and state, Islamophobia, pedophilia, synodality and reconciliation with the Lefebvrists.

It is likely only a matter of time before the debate over transgender rights arises in Catholic schools.

Bishop McElroy proposes turning the diocesan synod into a biannual, theme-driven event.