The quake felled several significant churches including the 14th-century Basilica of St. Benedict in the main square of Norcia.

Apart from restricting life choices among young Catholics, debt also creates new relationship structures within their families based on guilt and co-dependence rather than on love.

The predatory loan industry’s lobby is powerful, and legislation is often gutted of any real power to protect the vulnerable.

Pope Francis is in Sweden today to mark the start of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

We are all pilgrims on the way, loved sinners following the call we first heard at our baptisms.

Christian unity requires conversion: "It needs conversion of the papacy, conversion of bishops, conversion of Lutherans and of Catholics."