Pope Francis has appointed Charles Scicluna the Vatican rsquo s former chief prosecutor of clergy who abuse minors as archbishop of Malta The Vatican made the announcement on Feb 27 though the news had been broken some days earlier by the press in Malta The 55-year-old Toronto-born Maltese prelat

Earlier this week the National Catholic Reporter did a story on the surveys being conducted by all the dioceses of the United States in prepartion for October rsquo s Synod on the Family Again this is all part of the two year consultation process that Pope Francis began over a year ago to discuss

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An ecumenical theater troupe sparks conversation with 'The Merchant of Venice'

The Catholic Archbishop of Coro Archbishop Roberto L ckert affirms that the arrest of the mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma quot is adding fuel to the fire quot to the continuing conflict between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and opposition forces On Feb 19 about 100 Venezuelan police of

When Pope Francis first started out as an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires in 1992 he was assigned as vicar to the Flores district which was in fact the part of town in which he had grown up And he would later relate that the work there was easy because he just had to keep doing what the previous