Pope at audience: “Seeing each one of you in person pleases me”

Pope Francis opened today’s audience, resumed in-person in the San Damaso Courtyard, by thanking all those present: “I am happy…

Britain’s tinderbox: caught between nationalism and pro-independence drives. Sturgeon rains on Johnson’s parade

The results of the recent local elections in the United Kingdom analysed by Stefan Enchelmaier, Oxford University professor, expert in…

Balkans: launch of Balkan Free Media Initiative to promote press freedom in the region. Nikolova (director), “media threatened”

EU-Africa: 210 million in humanitarian aid. Food, social and health crises. Special attention for children

Council of Europe: democracy and human rights, “clear and worrying backsliding. Situation compounded by pandemic”

Sweden: Jan Byström, husband and father, formerly a Lutheran pastor, ordained Catholic priest of the diocese of Stockholm

Pope Francis: “Catechists needed in our globalized culture”

The presence of catechists “is all the more urgently needed today as a result of a globalized culture”, writes Pope…

Solidarity regains a central place in the European Union

The inaugural event of the Conference on the Future of Europe took place in Strasbourg on May 9, a symbolic…

Sweden: Card. Arborelius, a book on the “mysticism of everyday life” for “God is never far away”

Germany: Anna-Nicole Heinrich, 25, President of Evangelical Church Synod. Mgr. Bätzing (DBK), “good sign”

Year of Rail: the Connecting Europe Express will run through 26 countries and 70 cities to show the connections and the way to go