QUITO ldquo I thank God for having allowed me to return to Latin America and to be here with you today in this beautiful land of Ecuador rdquo With these words a visibly happy Pope greeted the Ecuadorian people and then went onto appeal for dialogue and nbsp reconciliation in the land soon aft

Pope Francis returns with joy to Latin America this Sunday July 5 and is expected to be given a rapturous welcome by millions of people during his seven-day visit to Ecuador Bolivia and Paraguay On the eve of his departure he went to the Basilica of St Mary Major rsquo s in Rome to pray before t

An interview with Chicago's new archbishop

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis lived through a similar economic and social crisis.

New archbishops gather in Rome

Pope Francis has created a new Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia into which all existing Vatican communications offices and operations will be incorporated At the same time he has appointed the Italian Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigano Director of the Vatican Television Center as it

Addressing “every person on the planet” in a groundbreaking encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis speaks frankly and passionately about the “global environmental deterioration” of “our common home,” appealing “for a new dialogue about how

The greatest obstacle to Christian unity is ‘the spirit of possessiveness.’

ldquo Accompaniment rdquo and ldquo Integration rdquo nbsp are the two key words of the Working Document for next October rsquo s Synod of Bishops on the Family Archbishop Bruno Forte the synod rsquo s secretary said at a Vatican press conference June 23 It rsquo s clear that the doors are

Never in the history of the Vatican has a senior leader of another Christian Church and an atheist scientist presented a papal encyclical But that is what happened at Roman noon June 18 when the Vatican released Pope Francis rsquo long awaited encyclical on ldquo our common home rdquo at a pr