Pope Francis

pope francis has praised the life and testimony of italian father pino puglisi 30 years after he was gunned down by mafia hitmen. in a lette...

Elise Allen

rome – on wednesday the jesuit-run university of central america (uca) in nicaragua issued a statement condemning a government decree confis...

Elise Allen

german archbishop georg gänswein, the former private secretary to the late pope benedict xvi, has made his first public appearance since bei...

Elise Allen

rome – in the heart of italy’s mob country, a new catholic parish is being dedicated to the premier patron saints of the anti-mafia effort, ...

John L Allen

saturday 5th august parque tejo trancão, lisbon – from around 4pm the transition from bustling racket to eerie stillness on the streets of l...

Tom Colsy

it is notoriously risky to compare two large historical movements, especially recent or contemporary ones, and to claim to detect similariti...

Martin Henry

papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...

Elise Ann Allen

lisbon – in a sign of the rapidly expanding influence that asian catholicism is having in the global church, pope francis announced on sunda...

Elise Ann Allen

rome — a broad consensus regards pope francis, who today wraps up a five-day trip to lisbon for world youth day, as a revolutionary figure. ...

John L Allen

lisbon – pope francis has told a crowd of young people at a prayer vigil for world youth day (wyd), estimated by organisers to be in the reg...

Elise Ann Allen