Ships often avoid passing under South America, particularly around the southern tip known as Cape Horn, due to extremely dangerous weather conditions and treacherous seas. This region is notorious for ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

“It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it … This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church ...

His seeming ability to be from two places at once — North and South America ... direction and say, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m not going to use my five days’ worth of clothes,’” joked ...

A leader with global experience, he spent much of his career as a missionary in South America ... cardinal. She says she was hoping the next pope would continue with the same ideology and ...

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He is the first pope from the United States of America ... Leo the 14th, or the cardinal, then Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago on the South Side. Is he a Chicago White Sox fan?” ...

Francis made history as the first pope from Latin America, and there has never been one from the U.S. Still, two Americans drawing attention are Cardinal ... s remarks, South Carolina Republican ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Cardinal Robert Prevost attends the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. “Even as a young ...

The collection will shed light on the financing of escape routes for Nazis, thousands of whom escaped to South America via so-called “rat lines” after the war. Last month, Argentine President ...