Pope Francis told me: "The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old. The old need care and companionship; the young need work ...

One year ago Sharbat Gula Shinwari set foot in Italy for the first time, leaving behind a country that had recently fallen into the hands of the Taliban. Just like 38 years ago, when her image was ...

(Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG called it Project Dastan, a Persian word for the kind of ornate oral histories that are common across Central Asia, including heroic tales of resistance to Russian ...

Facts and personages of the scandalous past of the man whom Francis, unaware, delegated to represent him at the IOR. Here's how a parallel power lives and thrives at the Vatican, plotting to the harm ...

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SANDRO MAGISTER was born on the feast of the Guardian Angels in 1943, in the town of Busto Arsizio in the archdiocese of Milan. The following day he was baptized into the Catholic Church. His wife’s ...

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First Francis and then Fr. Lombardi have restated for the umpteenth time that pope Montini permitted those nuns to take birth control pills. But that’s false. Here is how that urban legend was born.

The text of the Gregorian introit for the second Sunday of Advent merits some preliminary observations and refers more generally to the complex procedure of textual composition undertaken for the ...

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