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August 4, 2017

Cardinal Parolin’s Russia visit packed with political, religious significance

Cardinal Pietro Parolin greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vatican in 2013. Cardinal Parolin will be visiting Russia later in August.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Secretary of State's visit to Russia later this month comes at a crucial juncture for the country, and is packed with both political and religious significance.

Published in International
May 11, 2017

Amid crisis, some Venezuelans are eating at garbage dumps, says local priest

Venezuela's increasingly dire economic and political crisis has forced some people to eat at garbage dumps, according to one local priest.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Garbage dumps have become “a regular place for people to eat” in Venezuela, says a local priest lamenting the nation's increasingly dire economic and political crisis.

Published in International
January 18, 2017

Venezuela's bishops: social, economic crisis demands a timetable for elections

The bishops of Venezuela have urged their government to hold elections in a timely manner as the country faces a crisis of hyperinflation and chronic shortage of goods.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The bishops of Venezuela have urged that elections take place in the country in a timely manner, in light of the crisis of hyperinflation and chronic shortages of goods facing their nation.

Published in International
February 3, 2016

Haitian bishops call for quick, negotiated solution to pending political crisis

A man crosses a police cordon during a protest against the government and the electoral process Jan. 29 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti's Catholic bishops urged political leaders to reach a negotiated solution to the country's looming political crisis as President Michel Martelly's term ends Feb. 7 and elections to find a successor have been indefinitely delayed.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's Catholic bishops urged political leaders to reach a negotiated solution to the country's looming political crisis as President Michel Martelly's term ends Feb. 7 and elections to find a successor have been indefinitely delayed.

Published in International
October 1, 2015

The political Pope Francis can’t help but make it personal

Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress as Vice President Joe Biden (left) and Speaker of the House John Boehner look on in the House of Representatives Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sept. 24.

PHILADELPHIA - In the 1970s feminist writers had a slogan they wanted to share with the world: “The personal is political.”

Published in Francis in America
October 1, 2014

Cardinals urge government to break political deadlock in Hong Kong

About 100 Catholic youths pray for democracy outside Hong Kong's government headquarters building Sept. 30. Two cardinals in Hong Kong urged the government to solve the present political deadlock after police used force to disperse thousands of unarmed p rotesters who struggled for full democracy in the city.

HONG KONG - The two cardinals in Hong Kong urged the government to solve the present political deadlock after police used force to disperse thousands of unarmed protesters who struggled for full democracy in the city.

Published in International