After three days of tense “will they, won’t they?” speculation looming large over Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Spain, the pontiff met privately with Puerto Rican reggaeton sensation Bad Bunny during his final hours in Madrid. Leo, who leads the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, met Tuesday (June 9) with the international star born Benito Antonio Martínez…
Pope Leo XIV met with victims of clergy sex abuse Monday, June 8, in Madrid, engaging with the Spanish church’s abuse crisis that has loomed large over the first papal visit to Spain in 15 years. At the residence of the Vatican ambassador where he was staying in the Spanish capital, the pope met for…
Amid growing tensions between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV, the pontiff met privately with Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican on Thursday morning They discussed “the situation in the Middle East and topics of mutual interest in the Western Hemisphere,” according to a statement from Tommy Pigott, the spokesman for the State…
(RNS) — Shortly after Pope Leo XIV was elected last May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, himself a Catholic, was asked about his thoughts on the newly minted pontiff’s comments signaling deep concern for immigrants. After defending President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts — which Pope Leo would end up publicly criticizing — Rubio, the…
Dystopian sci-fi adventure Pragmata starts like an ‘80s horror movie. You find yourself in control of astro-engineer Hugh as he cautiously makes his way through an eerily quiet lunar research station called The Cradle, trying to uncover why the base’s communications with Earth have been shut off. Just as the rest of his team realise…
If you like grand designs, you should see the Cosmic House. Beginning in 1978, the postmodernist theorist Charles Jencks and garden designer Maggie Keswick transformed their family home into a vision of the cosmic order at the scale of a Victorian townhouse. A “solar stair” with 52 steps, to give you a flavour, spirals from…
Shorouk Express There’s something quietly magical about Brussels, the capital of Europe, in late November. The grey skies and winding streets take on a new glow when the cinema becomes more than just a screen; it becomes a meeting point for cultures, stories and voices from the Mediterranean, the cradle of European civilisation and its…
Shorouk Express The Trump administration’s erratic policy shifts on Ukraine — such as abruptly halting the sharing of battlefield intelligence with Kyiv last March — and its push to politicize intelligence by appointing Trump loyalists have shaken European confidence in Washington’s reliability. Ratcliffe, a former Republican congressman from Texas, built his reputation as one of…
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