MAY 8, 2007

HELLO BRAZIL - Our colleague Emer McCarthy is currently in Brazil awaiting the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI and describes the mood...
APARECIDA AND MORE - Pope Benedict XVI leaves for Brazil on Wednesday to open the Major Assembly of Latin American Bishops but there's also a pastoral side to this journey ....
PAPAL JIGSAW IN SOUND - Beginning in 1955 there were four General Conferences of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean. The first took place in Brazil in days when popes didn't yet travel but sent radio messages hurtling through the air waves .....