Communication regarding Pope Francis’ hospitalization has been somewhat uneven in recent days. In the beginning, there was talk of a highly complex medical case involving a patient who was not responding to treatment or new therapies. Then, the Holy See Press Office officially spoke of bilateral pneumonia, which, in any case, was added to [...]

President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the US Agency for International Development – USAID – or at least freeze it pending thorough scrutiny and reassessment has created great panic among many of the world’s NGOs counting on it.

According to a logic that began after the Second World War – remember the Marshall [...]

Pope Francis has confirmed Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re and Leonardo Sandri as Dean and Vice Dean, respectively, of the College of Cardinals. The news may appear at first blush to be of the housekeeping variety – and it is – but housekeeping can say a lot..

Re and Sandri have already turned 80, which [...]

Two recent events demonstrate that Pope Francis’s pontificate has lost all balance. They occurred in Latin America and also testify to the polarization and “war” that took place in the Latin American Church in the Seventies.

The two events are the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a lay association whose founder was convicted [...]