“If the women of South Sudan are given an opportunity to develop, to have space to be productive, South Sudan will be transformed.”
Africa
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis’ Africa trip is over. But the Jesuits of South Sudan hope his message of peace will endure.
“Pope Francis’ message is really about a personal relationship with Jesus,” Kizito Kiyimba, S.J., to America’s Vatican correspondent. “His message remains after him.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic bishops in Nigeria raise up security and common good concerns before presidential elections
Ahead of upcoming general elections on Feb. 25 and March 11, Nigerian Catholics want their next national leaders to address the difficult political and socio-economic issues facing the country.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: Pope Francis tells multinational companies exploiting the DRC, ‘Hands off Africa!’
This week on ‘Inside the Vatican,’ Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Francis’ six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, which the pope called a pilgrimage of peace.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis on his trip to Africa: God places his hope in the humble
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reveals what he said on his apostolic journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, praying that “the seeds of God’s Kingdom of love, justice and peace may germinate.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis tells young people: ‘You are the seed of a new South Sudan.’
Pope Francis repeated his pressing call for an end to the violence that has forced millions into camps for refugees or the internally displaced in South Sudan.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis arrives in South Sudan with a message that ‘may appear blunt and direct’ to its leaders
Pope Francis is on an ecumenical pilgrimage for reconciliation and peace with Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury; and Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Posted inIdeas, Politics & Society
Popes on a Plane: How the Boeing 747 changed the Catholic Church and the papacy
Prior to 1964, no pope had left Italy for 150 years. The advent of the 747 and long-haul flights enabled popes to finally visit the world, and the world to visit the pope.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
‘We thank God for the pope’: Takeaways from Pope Francis’ visit to the D.R.C.
In the D.R.C., Pope Francis has shown his advanced age and physical mobility problems have not limited his extraordinary capacity to console the afflicted, call evildoers to conversion and sustain the faithful in hope.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Three things to know about Pope Francis’ visit to South Sudan
The contemporary tension in South Sudan has a complex and disturbing history.