Even in Francis era, it’s okay to have doubts on immigration

“There must be no family without a home,” Francis said in a message for the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, “no refugee without a welcome, no person without dignity."

Pope Francis on Monday met Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar mosque, the highest authority in the 1.3 billion-strong Sunni Muslim world, ending a five-year suspension in relations.

It's hard to know what more Francis could have done so far to gain "street cred" with Muslims, and a Monday session with a key Sunni leader gives him a chance to use it.

As the five-year anniversary of a new English translation of the Mass nears, Catholic opinion is still divided. That sometimes means heartburn, but it's the reflux of a deep passion.

Friday marked the start of the “Special Olympics European Football Week,” a program from an institution which year after year changes the life of thousands of men and women with intellectual disabilities all over the world.

Many lay employees are now working under supposedly short-term "religious contracts," with no health insurance, pension or benefits, and they describe a climate of fear.

In a Vatican statement, Pope Benedict denied telling a German professor that the Third Secret of Fatima talked about “a bad council and a bad Mass," presumably a reference to Vatican II.