His presence was a message to the indigenous communities here: Pope Francis has heard of your suffering and he has said, “Enough.”

In Mexico the devotion Santa Muerte, called “the boney one” or “the white lady,” emerged from relative obscurity in 2001.

A Texas newspaper reported today that U.S. Supreme Court Senior Justice Antonin Scalia was discovered dead of apparent natural causes at a West Texas ranch. According to the San Antonio Express News, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did

Mexico’s richness is its young people, Pope Francis told the nation’s assembled political leadership at the National Palace in Mexico City today.

"The most common abuses that we are documenting and hearing about … are torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions.”

The surprise announcement from Rome of the upcoming meeting between Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis “shows definitively Francis’ vocation as a pontiff, a bridge-builder,” Kevin Ahern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College said on Feb. 5.&ldquo

More Mexicans remain tied to their Catholic faith compared with people in many other Latin American countries.

Pope and Patriarch likely to focus on areas for collaboration and dialogue.

Aid in place needed to staunch refugee crisis.

True unity and true dialogue can only be found in common mission.