This would involve registration of all illegal aliens and deportation of those who have committed serious crimes, issuing "temporary, non-immigrant visas" to those qualified, which would require background checks, paying a fine and learning to speak …

Vatican City, Jan 5, 2015 / 11:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In creating 20 new cardinals – 15 of whom will be cardinal electors – Pope Francis has continued to set his sights on the world's peripheries, and at the same time he began designing the College of …

The Rajasthan government's recent ordinance fixing minimum qualifications for those contesting panchayat elections smacks of elitism, autocracy, and failure to comprehend the realities of rural India. Candidates contesting Zila Parishad or Panchayat …

Pope Francis is at it again. He is continuing his unprecedented (and very public) effort to reform the Vatican bureaucracy. In his Christmas Week address to The Curia he called bishops and cardinals “Lords of the Manor – (sometimes feeling) superior to …

Re “Pope lashes out, lists 'ailments' of Vatican bureaucrats” (Page B5, Dec. 23): The stinging “ailments” of Vatican bureaucracy – known as the curia – had to be addressed by Pope Francis. I have been of the Catholic faith all my life. Let me define …

Her most senior official, Cabinet secretary Sir Robert Armstrong, set out his ‘increasing disquiet’ about ‘the things that people think are going on in the City’ in a memo sent in 1986.

ROME — February is shaping up to be a busy month at the Vatican, with movement on the fight against clerical sex abuse, further steps on the reform of Church.

The Vatican announced on December 11 that Pope Francis will elevate new members to the College of Cardinals at a consistory on February 14 and 15. But the week leading up to that consistory will see several other …

Tuesday marked the seventh time the group of nine cardinals, representing five continents and the Vatican, have met to plot a revamp of the Vatican administration, which Francis has said needs to be overhauled to make it more efficient and responsive …

Vatican City — Pope Francis convened his cardinal advisers to chart the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy Tuesday after acknowledging resistance to his changes but saying he welcomes the debate and is nevertheless undeterred. It's the seventh time the …