The answer to the refugee crisis is continued assistance “not to close the gates of the countries where people are knocking for survival,” Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi said.
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
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Vatican workshop: Focus on profit and fossil fuels is a bigger threat to the earth than population growth
Solutions should focus more on correcting unjust systems and selfish behaviors than population control.
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Abuse survivor quits protection commission, says Vatican wasn’t protecting children and vulnerable adults
Marie Collins, one of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has quit.
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Potential of life on newly discovered planets shows God’s “creative greatness,” say religious leaders
Even the pope’s own astronomers applauded the new discovery.
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Abortion, contraception, vaccines: Vatican releases guide of the church’s bioethical teachings
The charter “reaffirms the sanctity of life” as a gift from God and calls on those working in health care to be “servants” and “ministers of life.”
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Pope Francis: Victims of human trafficking need greater protection
Communities need to be saved from “corruption, extortion, the illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons,” he said.
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New Year calls for courage, hope; no more hatred, selfishness, pope says
“That is how one builds peace, saying ‘no’ to hatred and violence—with action—and ‘yes’ to fraternity and reconciliation,” Pope Francis said on Jan. 1.
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Why the Catholic Church is taking a ground-up to helping victims of sexual assault
The imbalance in the world, one Jesuit expert has said, reflects how years of papal pleas and Vatican mandates have not been received or implemented consistently everywhere.
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Pope Francis has chosen the first woman to lead the Vatican Museums
Barbara Jatta, 54, is an Italian art historian and graphic arts expert, who had been serving as vice-director of the museums since June.
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Pope Francis: Nonviolence is not weakness
In a world marked by violence, “the choice of nonviolence as a style of life is increasingly demanded in the exercise of responsibility at every level,” the pope said.