Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to apologize for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Canadian schools where indigenous children were abused for decades.
Poverty is back in the headlines thanks to a pair of public figures. The comments illustrate divergent views, and only one is correct. “Americans have choices. And they’ve got to make a choice,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CNN. “So maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest that in health care. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”
After Pope Francis publicly supported indigenous land rights last week, various mainstream media outlets assumed he was referencing the high-profile Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States. The Vatican said the pontiff was commenting on indigenous struggles happening daily worldwide, which activists say are woefully underreported.
The Vatican and Argentina’s Catholic Church have decided to open their archives from the country’s ‘Dirty War.’ The move raises hope that other Latin American countries that also suffered under military dictatorships will do the same.
Pope Francis stood in solidarity with the thousands of Latin Americans forced to migrate to the United States as he…
This is a part of a series of dispatches correspondent Tom Murphy is writing from New York during the U.N. General Assembly…
This is a part of a series of dispatches correspondent Tom Murphy is writing from New York during the U.N. General Assembly…
A leaked draft of Pope Francis’ soon-to-be-published encyclical shows that the leader of the Catholic church is in agreement with…