In a file photo, people wait for Sao Paulo Cardinal Odilo Scherer to open the Door of Mercy Dec. 13, 2015, at the city’s cathedral for the Jubilee of Mercy. (Credit: Luciney Martins/courtesy O Sao ...

Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo is pictured celebrating Mass at the Sao Paulo Cathedral in 2013. (CNS photo/Paulo Whitaker, Reuters) SAO PAULO (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Sao Paulo ...

Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo is pictured celebrating Mass at the Sao Paulo Cathedral in 2013. The archbishop announced March 5, 2020, the creation of a commission to investigate ...

A homeless man gestures to the camera after waking up from sleeping overnight outside the Cathedral, amid the spread of the new coronavirus in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (Credit: Andre ...

Brazil’s ultra urban megacity overwhelms the landscape and the imagination. Paulo Scott recommends books that peel back its layers. By Paulo Scott Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring ...

Homeless people sleep outside the Cathedral amid the spread of the new coronavirus in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 7, 2020. According to the Sao Paulo municipal office of social assistance and ...

In São Paulo’s municipal election last fortnight, the voters were in a truculent mood. They voted down the government’s candidate for mayor, in protest to the government’s failure to check inflation; ...