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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Shoppers, the vast majority wearing protective face masks, crowd a street in a commercial district of central Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP via Crux)

World

2021 brings new challenges to Church in Latin America

Inés San Martín|Jan 5, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis listens as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, expresses his best wishes to the pope during an audience with officials of the Roman Curia at the Vatican Dec. 21, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican

The papal priorities set for a 2021 comeback

Inés San Martín|Jan 5, 2021|6 Min Read

Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona gives Pope Francis a jersey during a special audience at the Vaticans Paul VI hall in 2014. The pope organized an interreligious "Match for Peace and appealed for an end to conflicts around the world. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

World

After Maradona’s death, Pope Francis opens up and talks sports

Inés San Martín|Jan 3, 2021|6 Min Read

Fire from a molotov cocktail explodes in front of police as a police vehicle shoots water at protesters who marched against the commemoration of the discovery of the Americas, organized by Indigenous groups demanding autonomy and the recovery of ancestral land in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Esteban Felix/AP via Crux)

World

Part Two: Latin America’s biggest Catholic stories of 2020

Inés San Martín|Dec 29, 2020|5 Min Read

An abortion-rights activist watches a big tv screen showing lawmakers in session outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The Argentine lower house has approved a bill that would legalize abortion. The bill now moves to the Senate. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP via Crux)

World

Part One: Latin America’s biggest Catholic stories of 2020

Inés San Martín|Dec 28, 2020|7 Min Read

Vatican

Some silver linings from the Catholic Church’s long year

Inés San Martín|Dec 18, 2020|4 Min Read

An unprecedented report published Dec. 11 looked into the working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in India, a majority of who work in slave-like conditions. (Courtesy Arise foundation via Crux)

World

Indian nun shines spotlight on exploited domestic workers

Inés San Martín|Dec 14, 2020|5 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Diego Maradona at the Vatican in 2014. The former soccer star died of heart failure Nov. 25 at the age of 60. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images)

Nation

Why Diego Maradona saw 'the hand of God' in Pope Francis

Inés San Martín|Dec 10, 2020|5 Min Read

A giant baby sculpture is seen during a pro-life rally outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2020. (CNS photo/Agustin Marcarian, Reuters) See ARGENTINA-ABORTION-REGULATIONS July 28, 2020.

World

Pope Francis once again enters abortion debate in Argentina

Inés San Martín|Dec 2, 2020|3 Min Read

World

Pope prays for Maradona, remembers him ‘with affection’

Inés San Martín|Nov 26, 2020|5 Min Read

One of several images that went viral on Twitter on Tuesday, as thousands of users of the social platform called for the clergy to be burned. (Twitter #FuegoAlClero via Crux)

World

Firestorm on Twitter in Spain after trending topic calls for burning priests

Inés San Martín|Nov 25, 2020|4 Min Read

Former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick addresses the media on the roof of the North American College in Rome in 2001. (Catholic News Service/Carol Zimmerman)

Vatican

McCarrick report an indictment of clericalism and collusion

Inés San Martín|Nov 24, 2020|6 Min Read