• Struggling Catholic schools seek ways to set themselves apart

    Struggling Catholic schools seek ways to set themselves apart

    Sep 25, 2015 12:31 AM EST

    ... she knows quite a bit about him. NGUEUBOU KAMWA, Student: And his real name is actually Jorge Mario Bergoglio. I know that he's from Argentina. And that he lives in Vatican City. APRIL BROWN: Seventh-grader Jade Fuentes has also been studying the life of the pontiff. JADE FUENTES ...

  • Affirming American values, Pope Francis urges empathy in Congress

    Affirming American values, Pope Francis urges empathy in Congress

    Sep 25, 2015 12:14 AM EST

    NICHOLSON: That would make him a saint. JUDY WOODRUFF: Do you see follow-up? SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL: It would probably make him a saint, I really think we have hard work ahead too -- because we have a nanosecond memory in this town. And so what we're doing is, next ...

  • Column: I didn’t choose my Mormon faith, but slowly and surely it has chosen me

    Column: I didn’t choose my Mormon faith, but slowly and surely it has chosen me

    Sep 22, 2015 03:23 PM EST

    ... us, helping us to know. There were moments in my service as bishop, presiding over a decidedly atypical congregation of West Africans and Central Americans, Argentines and Tongans, Filipinos and yes, a Daughter of the Utah Pioneers or two, watching another generation of earnestly chaotic teenage boys in wrinkly white ...

  • How a low-profile priest transformed into Pope Francis

    How a low-profile priest transformed into Pope Francis

    Sep 22, 2015 12:12 AM EST

    ... beginning? STEPHEN SCHNECK, The Catholic University of America: He's, you know, a second-generation immigrant. And I think the immigrant experience of Italians in Argentina was unique. And Argentine history was one of the shaping factors here. It's a different history than the United States, and, you know ...

  • Why Pope Francis wants us to stop worshipping capitalism

    Why Pope Francis wants us to stop worshipping capitalism

    Sep 18, 2015 12:25 AM EST

    ... center in East Harlem, the poorest part of Manhattan and the one with the closest ties to Latin America, home to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinean Jesuit priest now known as Pope Francis. MELISSA MARK-VIVERITO, Speaker , New York City Council: And just south of this district, we have the ...

  • For White House visit, pomp and protocol await Pope Francis

    For White House visit, pomp and protocol await Pope Francis

    Sep 13, 2015 04:49 PM EST

    ... for the first time in March 2014 at the Vatican, and Obama has been outspoken about his admiration for the 78-year-old native of Argentina. Despite differences over abortion, the two have found common ground on such issues as U.S. policy toward Cuba and Iran, climate change, and ...

  • The artists we lost in 2014

    The artists we lost in 2014

    Dec 31, 2014 02:06 PM EST

    As the hours tick down to 2015, here at Art Beat we offer a final look at some of the artists we lost over the last year, whose lives and legacies are worth another goodbye.

  • 22 countries where voting is mandatory

    22 countries where voting is mandatory

    Nov 03, 2014 08:01 PM EST

    Despite all of the U.S. media's fanfare about Tuesday’s midterm elections, most eligible voters likely will duck their civic duties on Election Day. Historically, nearly one-third fewer U.S. voters show up to the polls during a midterm election than a presidential election. However, 22 nations around the world make voting mandatory for its citizens, often...

  • Viewers respond to report on the risk of soccer concussions for kids

    Viewers respond to report on the risk of soccer concussions for kids

    Oct 26, 2014 08:45 PM EST

    Viewers respond to a report examining whether soccer is safe, given the thousands of concussions that occur every year after kids use their heads to make contact with the ball. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

  • Celebrating 8 years of Twitter with 8 superlative tweets

    Celebrating 8 years of Twitter with 8 superlative tweets

    Jul 15, 2014 07:27 PM EST

    Today is the anniversary of Twitter’s public launch. To celebrate this anniversary we've rounded up eight Twitter superlatives. Here are a few of the tweets (and accounts) that we felt earned a title in this past year.