July 31, 2014 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continue to study the most effective and efficient way to organize the Roman Curia, a large bureaucracy with a long history of expansions and a few, short-term, attempts at consolidation. For centuries, popes were assisted in their ministry by the…

ROME (CNS) — Propaganda and fear were the sparks that ignited the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that has become a real war, said a Jesuit military chaplain. “In Ukraine you can see how distortion of truth, how perversion of reality, can actually cause a real war where people are killed — innocent people…