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Shaun McAfee

November 28, 2019
Pope Francis’s four-day visit to Japan coincided with the 100th anniversary of the first diplomatic ties between Japan and the Holy See. In 1919, Rome sent the future cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi to Japan to serve as the apostolic delegate, marking the beginning of a formal relationship between the Empire of Japan and the Vatican.
July 04, 2019
Ashort walk from the entrance of Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki there is a boulder that’s big enough to seat one person. To anyone walking by, the stone looks ordinary: there is no evidence of masonry or any carvings. But this stone has a story. It is called the “torture stone” and it was used to
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