Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

His native Guatemala is struggling through political ... and protecting the rights of migrants.” Ramazzini said the church has to advocate for migrants forced by dire poverty to migrate along ...

Still, the church shouldn’t abandon migrants or the ... mountainous regions that were particularly hard-hit during Guatemala’s civil war, which ended in 1996. Today, they continue to ...

Guatemala’s Cardinal Trusts Migration Will ... Being elevated to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church didn’t faze the bishop of Huehuetenango, whose continued commitment to social justice ...