Inés San Martín

Inés San Martín is the editor of MISSION Magazine, a publication of The Pontifical Mission Societies USA. She’s the co-host of the Spanish-speaking podcast “Descifrando a León."

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Informal housing spreads across the hillsides in Jalousie, Haiti. (USAID via Crux)

World

Clerical kidnappings, elections, and COVID dominate Catholic news in Americas

Inés San Martín|Apr 13, 2021|4 Min Read

People photograph a graffiti depicting Pope Francis cleaning the sky from pollution, painted on a wall of Albano, near Rome, before the start of the pontiff visit, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. The graffiti realized by artist Maupal, Mauro Pallotta and named 'Exemplum Omnibus' (Example for All) was inspired by the encyclical 'Laudato Si' (Praise Be) where is declared an urgent need for the political and spiritual conversion of global leaders and individuals to dedicate themselves to curbing climate change and ending policies and personal habits that destroy creation. (Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Vatican

Pope Francis on climate and migration: ‘To see or not to see, that is the question’

Inés San Martín|Mar 31, 2021|4 Min Read

A health care worker administers a dose of the Sinovac's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a vaccination center in Santiago, Chile, Feb. 3, 2021. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters via CNS)

World

Latin America prepares for Holy Week as COVID cases rise

Inés San Martín|Mar 30, 2021|4 Min Read

A bust of Italian poet Dante Alighieri is seen next to an etching of him at the University of Bologna in Ravenna, Italy, in this January 16, 2007, file photo. In the runup to next year's 700th anniversary of the death of Dante, Pope Francis said he hopes people can read the Italian poet's "Divine Comedy." (CNS photo/Marco Bucco, Reuters)

Arts & Culture

700 years after his death, Dante still inspires popes

Inés San Martín|Mar 25, 2021|4 Min Read

In this file photo, Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 17, 2021. The pope spoke about the role of the Holy Spirit in making Jesus present in people's lives. (CNS photo/Vatican Media.)

Faith

Once again, Pope Francis says Mary is not the ‘co-redemptrix’

Inés San Martín|Mar 24, 2021|4 Min Read

Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of São Paulo is pictured celebrating Mass at the São Paulo Cathedral in 2013. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters via CNS.)

World

Brazilian cardinal accused of downplaying priest’s alleged abuse of teen

Inés San Martín|Mar 24, 2021|6 Min Read

Members of the Legionaries of Christ order walks in St. Peter's Square after meeting Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP via Crux)

World

Legionaries of Christ publish latest abuse report for the congregation

Inés San Martín|Mar 23, 2021|4 Min Read

People protest against a law to legalize euthanasia as the Spanish Parliament prepares to vote on it in Madrid in this Dec. 17, 2020, file photo. Spain's parliament was set to pass controversial legislation March 18 legalizing physician-assisted suicide; Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg also allow physician-assisted suicide. (Susana Vera/Reuters via CNS.)

World

Spain’s bishops decry decision to legalize euthanasia

Inés San Martín|Mar 19, 2021|3 Min Read

Dozens of homes were destroyed in Kali Mori, in the city of Hyderabad, in Pakistan, in mid-March, 2021. Thousands of Christians suddenly found themselves without a home after the Supreme Court ruled municipal officials had to free encroached lands both in Hyderabad and in Karachi. (Courtesy Eric Siraj via Crux)

World

Hundreds of Christian families face eviction from their homes in Pakistan

Inés San Martín|Mar 18, 2021|4 Min Read

World

Chilean bishop calls for civil disobedience over Mass restrictions

Inés San Martín|Mar 17, 2021|4 Min Read

In this Nov. 12, 2019, AP file photo, the Senate's second vice president and opposition politician Jeanine Añez, center, wearing the presidential sash and carrying a Bible, addresses the crowd from the balcony of the Quemado palace after she declared herself interim president of the country, in La Paz, Bolivia. (Juan Karita/AP.)

World

Bolivian bishops protest arrest of former president

Inés San Martín|Mar 16, 2021|4 Min Read

In a file photo, an LGBT choir sings outside the Pastoral Congress at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin Aug. 23. (CNS/Clodagh Kilcoyne,Reuters via Crux)

Vatican

Vatican rules out Church blessings for same-sex unions

Inés San Martín|Mar 15, 2021|3 Min Read