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Pope Francis on Monday urged fraternal dialogue in politics, rather than hostile negotiations. "Politics is above all the art of meeting," Francis told the French ecumenical Chemin Neuf Community. "Certainly this meeting must be lived welcoming the other and accepting...

The white metal roofing may protect the statues from rain, but it belongs at the entrance to an airport, shopping center, or hospital, not as the roof of a crèche. At night the lighting is very dim so the statues...

Two weeks ago, I received a press release from Sarah Lemieux, the Publicity Coordinator of Sophia Institute Press, about its hot-off-the-press publication, The Vatican Christmas Cookbook. It’s the sequel to the Institute’s best seller The Vatican Cookbook, which I reviewed...

It's a really complicated issue, because in an intricate round of information and contradictions  we find the Pope, a cardinal and several million euros. That of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu is a matter already known for a few months. In...

There are doubts about a new documentary in which it seems that Pope Francis approves civil unions between persons of the same sex regarding what the Pope really said and how he said it. It also appears that the video...

Incredibly, in Italy there are no official statistics on minors who have been victims of sexual abuse by priests. The recent efforts of Pope Francis will be useless if we don’t break down the wall of silence - even maintained...

Pope Francis’ rapport with food continues to interest readers. Due to all the clamor and ink spilt soon after Pope Francis’ election because of his pre-papacy simple lifestyle and taste in food while Archbishop of Buenos Aires, which he continued...

In the Vatican-owned building where Ratzinger lived, the new McDonald's is open 7 days a week. The rent is the equivalent of 6,500 Big Macs, per month. The company claims that their restaurants are designed with respect to the historical...

Talking about the Guggenheim, its designer, and the conceptual innovation that this architecture has produced is almost a pleonasm. Yet there is one aspect which, though certainly not unprecedented, is underestimated: its shape is a close relative of a the stairway leading to the...