This makes one hope for a world in which conflicts are resolved peacefully through dialogue and mutual respect, as sport also teaches.

The Vatican's sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex-abuse victim whose pleas to be heard by Pope Francis were previously ignored.

Lessons from a Jesuit road trip to Illinois.

Marx stopped short of a full endorsement of blessings for same-sex couples, but made it clear he was open to approving such benedictions in private ceremonies.

The Pope called his message "Because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold."

After 52 years of armed conflict in Colombia, government and rebel leaders reached a peace accord in late 2016. Now, the country is rebuilding.