Pope Francis has invited the President of China Xi Jinping to meet him in the Vatican to discuss world peace but he has also expressed his own willingness to travel ldquo tomorrow rdquo to Beijing for this same purpose if that were preferable He issued the invitation in a letter which he signe

Suicide note that he could no longer endure his treatment at his Catholic school.

Paul Mayer who succumbed to cancer last November had a knack for noticing a moral crisis He might have learned it from his German-Jewish parents who whisked him from Frankfurt to New York just before Kristallnacht He grew up to become a Catholic and a Benedictine priest only to leave the clois

Born and raised in Scotland I left in 1979 as an ldquo economic refugee rdquo to live and work in London At that time the Scottish National Party seemed small and insignificant so much so that some people observed that they could hold their annual party conference in a phone booth Scroll forw

With just two days until the vote, opinion polls on the referendum are too close to call.

Pope Francis presided over the weddings of 20 couples in a historic ceremony Sunday at St Peter rsquo s Basilica in Rome As noted in an announcement put out by the Diocese of Rome among the couples married at the Mass were some who had children or cohabited before marriage as well as a groom gra