Pope Francis visits Russian embassy, calls for end to war
As a Russian military convoy, 40 miles long, makes its way to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Pope Francis is fighting for peace in Rome. The pope warned against going down the road of conflict, appeal...
3 Mars 202228min
Why Pope Francis hasn’t called out Russia by name
Russian troops entered two breakaway regions of Eastern Ukraine on Monday, Feb. 21 and launched a full-scale invasion on Thursday, Feb. 24. The day before Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia took ...
25 Feb 202228min
Why Pope Francis is remaking the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office
Pope Francis has restructured the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s central doctrine office, which also investigates sexual abuse cases that are reported to Rome. With the pope...
17 Feb 202221min
Is Benedict XVI’s request for forgiveness enough?
Two weeks after the release of a report that accused Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI of mishandling sexual abuse cases when he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, the former pope responded in a brie...
10 Feb 202226min
Update: Benedict XVI responds to German abuse report
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has responded to accusations that he mishandled four cases of clerical sexual abuse when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising. His response came 20 days after a German l...
8 Feb 20223min
The Vatican’s leading expert in preventing sexual abuse weighs in on Benedict XVI’s predicament
An investigation, last month, into sexual abuse in the German archdiocese of Munich and Freising found that when Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI served as its archbishop he had mishandled cases of sexual a...
3 Feb 202223min
Pope Benedict was accused of mishandling four abuse cases. Here’s what we know.
An investigation into sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising released Jan. 21 found that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the current archbishop, had mishandled c...
27 Jan 202227min
Deep Dive: The beatification of Rutilio Grande, El Salvador’s first martyr-priest
In 1977, driving on a rural, dusty road between Aguilares and El Paisnal, a Jesuit priest named Rutilio Grande S.J. was shot and killed by El Salvador’s government security forces. The assassination h...
21 Jan 202242min
