Rhina Guidos

Washington, D.C.

Latin America Correspondent at Global Sisters Report

Latin America correspondent for @sistersreport, also write about border issues. Past: @catholicnewssvc | @delawareonline | @sltrib | @yakimaherald | @rgj

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Articles

As missionary in Peru, future pope always close to the poorest, say Augustinian sisters

3 days ago | thebostonpilot.com | Rhina Guidos |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

ROME (OSV News) -- Two days before the May 7 conclave began, Augustinian Sister Carmen Toledano texted her religious brother Monseñor Robert, whom others called Cardinal Robert F. Prevost. She was surprised to hear his name in the news as a front-runner for pope and told him the way she saw it, the church needed a person who knew how to break barriers -- a unifier, a builder of communion, someone like him.
Fourth Sunday of Easter: Checkmating the devil

5 days ago | ncronline.org | Mary McGlone |Rhina Guidos

A number of years ago, I was hosting a pastor from El Salvador as he visited his U.S. sister parish. He asked me about parish life, what brought people together and what kinds of conflicts U.S. parishes might have. I told him that in that particular parish, the great unifiers were support of its school and a local and international commitment to work for justice. Nevertheless, I had to admit that we were in the midst of some liturgical controversy.
Pope Leo XIV pledges to pursue the reforms of Pope Francis

5 days ago | ncronline.org | Nicole Winfield |Rhina Guidos

Pope Leo XIV speaks with the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican May 10, 2025, during his first formal address to the college since his election May 8. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Vatican City — May 10, 2025 Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday (May 10), identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity.
World's workers need Pope Leo XIV to be lionhearted on labor justice

5 days ago | ncronline.org | Céire Kealty |Rhina Guidos

In some ways, it feels imprudent to speculate about the future work of the new pope. And yet, I can’t help but wonder about the significance of his chosen name: Leo. I anticipate he’ll devote his attention to a variety of social concerns. His previous comments on social media, his time as a bishop in Peru, and even his former university affiliation (Go Wildcats!) support this assumption.
Cardinals: President Trump had nothing to do with selecting first US pope

6 days ago | ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos

U.S. Cardinal Joseph Tobin recalled a moment when he saw his friend Bob put his head in his hands after it had become clear that he was about to become the next pope. "I was praying because I couldn't imagine what happens to a human being when you're faced with something like that," Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, said May 9.
The pope from Chicago backed Pope Francis' major church reforms

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos |James V. Grimaldi

Robert Prevost was born on Sept. 14, 1955, in a hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy on Chicago's South Side. Four years ago, facing bankruptcy, the nuns sold Mercy Hospital to a technology firm. Growing up, Prevost attended St. Mary of the Assumption Parish. The parish became too expensive for the Chicago Archdiocese to maintain in the early 2010s. The parish buildings were closed and put up for sale, and the parish merged with another in 2011.
Pilgrims gasp at earlier than expected smoke, but still no pope

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Michael Sean Winters

Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $167,738 from 896 supporters. We are 56% of the way to our goal! Isabel Segovia Severin traveled from Viña Del Mar, Chile, in hopes of seeing white smoke and the new pope. "We leave tomorrow so we hope that today is the day," she said on May 8, the second day of the conclave. (NCR photo/Olivia Bardo) On Wednesday, the black smoke was late. On Thursday, the black smoke was early.
Black smoke signals no pope elected in conclave's 1st voting round

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos |Christopher White

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 9 p.m. local time on May 7, signaling to the world that no new pope had been elected on the first day of voting during the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. At 4:30 p.m., 133 cardinals processed from the Vatican's Pauline Chapel into the Sistine Chapel. After the papal master of ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, declared extra omnes ("everyone out"), the doors of the chapel were sealed and conclave voting began.
Editorial: The doors are sealed. We pray that God is in the conclave

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Camillo Barone |James V. Grimaldi |Rhina Guidos

Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! A giant screen shows Swiss Guards standing as the door of the Sistine Chapel is being closed, during the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican May 7. Crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square as 133 cardinals eligible to vote entered the chapel.
Black smoke signals no pope elected in conclave's 1st voting round

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Christopher White |Soli Salgado

Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not choose a successor to St. Francis.