An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant ...

The Chinese president was giving the hard sell to a room full of senior Latin American leaders on ... referring to the 19th-century U.S. approach to the region as its “sphere of influence ...

Latin America is a geographical, geopolitical, and cultural concept defined by the common characteristics of some of the ...

As contemporary as they sound, these lines come from his 19th-century predecessor, Pope Leo XIII. The encyclical was entitled “ Rerum Novarum ,” after its opening words, which my prosaic Latin renders ...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

The appointment of Robert Prevost has split the Catholic Church between conservatism and the supposedly progressive legacy of ...

South America’s largest city, São Paulo is often overlooked in favor of its glitzier seaside rival, Rio de Janeiro. But while ...

"You don't have the cards. You're not acting thankful. That's not a nice thing." Thus President Donald Trump disgraced ...

I am far from the only one indebted to an immigrant parent or grandparent that came to America to better provide for their ...

In his evanescent address, Pope Leo XIV said, "To all you brothers and sisters of Rome, Italy, of all the world, we want to ...

Mr. Anderson’s research interests include Contemporary Latin American and Peninsular Literature and Culture, 15th- to 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture, and Film Studies. He is ...