On the 17th day of the war in Ukraine, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, repeated Pope Francis’ call for “an immediate ceasefire” in Ukraine.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Inside Cardinal Czerny’s visit to Ukraine
“The people who come are not dead in a technical sense, but they have lost their lives. And they don’t have a new one yet, so they are terribly beaten, and terribly vulnerable.”
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Meet Sister Lucía Caram, the nun who drove 4,000 miles in a weekend to save Ukrainian refugees
Sister Lucía departed from Manresa at 6 a.m. on March 4 and arrived in Romania the following evening. On the morning of March 6, she set out on the return journey to Spain, bringing six refugees with her.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Krajewski in Ukraine: ‘Faith can move mountains, not to mention a stupid war.’
“Faith can move mountains, not to mention a stupid war,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner whom Pope Francis sent to Ukraine, told journalists in Lviv.
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‘Rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine,’ Pope Francis says. The war must end now.
Pope Francis called for a stop to the armed attacks in Ukraine, and for negotiations and good sense to prevail.
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Pope Francis on the war in Ukraine: ‘Let the guns be silenced.’
Praying for an end to the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis called for prayer and fasting for the people of Ukraine.
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Pope Francis speaks with Ukrainian President Zelensky: I pray ‘for peace and a ceasefire.’
As Russian tanks and troops moved to attack Kyiv and explosions were heard across Ukraine’s capital city, Pope Francis spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this Saturday afternoon, Feb. 26.
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Pope Francis visits Russian embassy as invasion of Ukraine continues
In a visit with few if any precedents, Pope Francis met with the Russian ambassador to the Holy See this morning to express concerns about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Pope Francis declares Ash Wednesday a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine
“Jesus taught us that the diabolical senselessness of violence is answered with God’s weapons, with prayer and fasting,” the pope said as the situation continued to deteriorate between Russia and Ukraine.
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Pope Francis: Priests need to have these 4 traits in the world today
Addressing a symposium on the priesthood in the Vatican on Feb. 17, Pope Francis presented what he called the “four forms of closeness” that he considers fundamental to the life of a priest.