Francis: Portrait of the Pope as a young man and as young Jesuit tested in the Dirty War

Just before Christmas 1936, Regina Bergoglio gave birth to her first child, who she named Jorge, which is Spanish for George. As she held h...

The case for Cardinal Zen to be elected Pope

‘The Communists have always one policy that is to control the Church, and since they cannot accept double loyalty: loyalty to the country ...

Somebody who should have been born is gone

  The Abortion by Anne Sexton Somebody who should have been born is gone. Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from it...

"I had an abortion for the same reason - bad timing, partner didn't want the baby"

Vicky Pryce, charged with perversion of justice Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perversion of justice, and could have been sentenced to...

Exclusive Interview with Cardinal Ratzinger: the man who would become Pope

Ten years after it was first filmed, EWTN have released an encore of a historic interview that it did with the then Cardinal Ratzinger.

The pop-song campaign for Cardinal Tagle to be chosen as the next Pope

Cardinal Vingt-Trois, the Archbishop of Paris who could become Pope. He has fought the French government on 'the fraud of gay-marriage'

The first thing that you notice about the Archbishop of Paris is that he has impeccable manners. The quintessential French gentleman, he is...

Why Cardinal Sandri could become Pope

The 69-year-old cardinal was born in Buenos Aires in November 1943, and is earmarked as the possible first Latin American pope. But wait: h...