• Interior, handling political policing: arrests, interrogations, torture. • Economy, imposing taxes and fines on everything—from merchants and small business owners to displaced families pitching a ...

“We are here to discuss transitions, but also the future—how to change it, how to shape it in a new form,” Altman said. He highlighted a new framework for global economic development, not solely based ...

Many complaints about Pope Francis: he would not have the good look of John XXIII, indeed his glances frosty; he would not have the subtle reasoning and prudence of Paul VI, indeed his “exits” put in ...

The Tears Returning to 2nd February 1995, it was at 4:20 pm that the five year old Jessica Gregori first witnessed tears of blood streaming from the left eye down to the heart of the Madonna in the ...

Pope Francis warns against sovereignism: “It leads to war” In an interview, the pontiff says: «Europe shall not break apart, it must be saved, it has human and Christian roots». «Ursula von der Leyen ...

Scicluna: the Pope’s 2016 legal ruling gives greater scope to remove bishops than a tribunal The Archbishop of Malta says the Motu Proprio “Come una madre amorevole” provides a procedure to dismiss ...

Church and racial laws: from the words of Pius XI to those of Schuster Eighty years ago the persecutory fascist legislation that struck the Jews. There were no official convictions, the strongest ...

“It is a mortal sin to exploit workers and scam on their salaries” Francis in Santa Marta: “in Italy, people are left without work to preserve capital investments”. Mass dedicated to the “noble ...

Francis, “I think of all those cleaning ladies… do you pay them fairly?” The Pope in Santa Marta: fasting during Lent should be consistent. Then he sides in defense of the house-cleaners, “are they ...

The Joachite dual-antichrist theory was immensely popular during the Middle Ages, and the anxieties that were raised over the possibility of a pope being equated with the False Prophet of the ...

Sister Margherita Marin, the nun who found John Paul I dead, “There were three sheets of paper, I remember a Gospel quotation” ...

Vatileaks, the Vatican “expense report” for the Orlandi kidnapping The Italian newspapersRepubblica andCorriere della Sera publish a document that appears drafted as “fake”, reporting almost half a ...