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FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis wants to visit Argentina, his homeland, in 2024 and has told Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the private secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, that he has to leave his Vatican apartment in the coming months.
The Rev. Luis Melquiades Suazo, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua parish in the nearby municipality of San Antonio del Norte, visits Mercedes De Oriente.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Subsistence farmers affected by drought will have to make it to the United States to feed their families and save their farms or cattle. Their departure leaves a gaping hole in families and the community.
Catholic Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes leads a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross during the Lenten season at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, on March 17, 2023. Catholics staged the devotional commemoration in the gardens of the cathedral due to the police ban on celebrating religious festivities on the streets. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J.P. CarrollErica Lizza
The Ortega regime‘s ban on religious processions during Lent is only the latest action to effectively criminalize Catholicism in Nicaragua. Catholics in the U.S. must assist refugees and fight anti-religious authoritarianism.
A young woman weeps against an ambulance as a loved one is treated by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Ciudad Juárez on Monday, March, 27, 2023. (Omar Ornelas/The El Paso Times via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.
A family sits around a table eating a meal
FaithNews
David Agren - OSV News
Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez appeared unexpectedly on Nicaraguan television March 24, more than six weeks after refusing to be exiled from his country, opting instead to face his sentence of 26 years behind bars. 
Several honduran women hold a large red sign calling for justice for Ana Lizeth Hernández
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The protest was organized by women’s advocates and the family, friends and neighbors of Ana Lizeth Hernández, a 33-year-old woman who died of a gunshot wound to the head in her home on March 19.