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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Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kiev-Halych and head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, speaks to reporters at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring via Crux)

World

Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church says sex abuse victims deserve justice

Inés San Martín|Oct 29, 2019|5 Min Read

A demonstrator holds up his hands toward advancing soldiers during a protest as a state of emergency remains in effect in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Protests in the country have spilled over into a new day, even after President Sebastian Pinera cancelled the subway fare hike that prompted massive and violent demonstrations. (Esteban Felix/AP via Crux)

World

Chile’s religious leaders condemn violence; call for justice

Inés San Martín|Oct 22, 2019|3 Min Read

Participants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon celebrate Mass in the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome Oct. 20, 2019. Several dozen synod participants at the Mass signed a pact promising to care for people and the earth and to give up a "colonist mentality and posture." (CNS photo/courtesy Father Julio Caldeira-REPAM)

World

Amazon bishops pledge poverty, spurning plastics and taking the bus

Inés San Martín|Oct 20, 2019|4 Min Read

People gathered to meditate on the Way of the Cross in Rome, during the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon. (Ines San Martin/Crux)

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Synod’s most debated figure was back at Saturday’s “Way of the Cross”

Inés San Martín|Oct 19, 2019|4 Min Read

Prelates attend a canonization Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino via Crux)

World

Amazon prelate floats alternative to married clergy: Send some Roman priests home

Inés San Martín|Oct 16, 2019|5 Min Read

Father Martin Lasarte, from Uruguay, pictured in 2015 in Angola, is a Salesian, appointed by Pope Francis as a synod father for the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon region. (Salesianas Angola via Crux)

World

Synod member, weary of married priest debate, rues getting stuck in ’70s

Inés San Martín|Oct 11, 2019|6 Min Read

Vatican

Church ‘can’t sacralize, nor Satanize’ every indigenous practice, bishop says

Inés San Martín|Oct 10, 2019|4 Min Read

Daniel Valladolid, a farmer from Sucumbios, hopes the synod will address the shortage of priests in the Amazon. (Inés San Martín)

World

Evangelization, ecology top Amazon synod agenda

Inés San Martín|Oct 4, 2019|6 Min Read

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, leaves a session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct 5, 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring via Crux)

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Top Vatican cardinal ‘skeptical’ on married priests for the Amazon

Inés San Martín|Oct 3, 2019|4 Min Read

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his wife Susan, left, and Callista Gingrich, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, walk with a tour guide as they visit the Sala Regia at the Vatican Oct. 2, 2019. Secretary of State Pompeo toured the Vatican after speaking at a symposium sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See at the Vatican. The symposium focused on areas of collaboration between the U.S. and the Vatican including the causes of advancing religious freedom and fighting against human trafficking. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

At Vatican, Pompeo says authoritarian regimes see God as a threat

Inés San Martín|Oct 2, 2019|4 Min Read

Blessing Okoedion, sex trafficking victim turned activist, speaks to the Italian parliament. Okoedion received the TIP Hero in the fight against human trafficking award in Washington D.C. June 28, 2018. (Credit: Italian Chamber of Deputies/Flickr via Crux)

World

Pope commends nuns for ‘standing on front line’ against human trafficking

Inés San Martín|Sep 27, 2019|5 Min Read

Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas, Venezuela, is interviewed near the apostolic nunciature prior to the start of Pope Francis's meeting with the executive committee of the Latin American bishops' council in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 7, 2017. (CNS photo/Paul Haring via Crux)

Vatican

Venezuelan cardinal: Synod document strong on ecology, weak on ecclesiology

Inés San Martín|Sep 25, 2019|10 Min Read