Pope Francis will visit Lebanon in June, the president’s office said Tuesday, in an apparent show of support for the country experiencing an unprecedented economic meltdown.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pope Francis is wise to not call out Putin directly. Here’s why.
By tempering his rhetoric on Ukraine, the pope is protecting his role as a peacemaker. He is also downplaying any conflict between Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis last spoke to Putin before New Year’s, is willing to visit Kyiv but that is ‘up in the air’
Answering a question from America’s Vatican correspondent, Pope Francis indicated he has not spoken directly to President Putin since the war started.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Former Jesuit superior of Ukraine: ‘Putin is destroying the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.’
“If Putin says something on Tuesday, the Russian Patriarch has to say the same thing on Wednesday but just putting the word ‘God’ into the sentence,” David Nazar, S.J., said in an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Understanding Orthodoxy, the shared religion of Ukraine and Russia
Why one Orthodox patriarch can denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even while another supports it
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The unholy ideology driving both Putin and Patriarch Kirill in the Russia-Ukraine war
The war is not about Russia capturing Ukraine; it is about Russia challenging the Western world, which Mr. Putin and Patriarch Kirill both regard as evil.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Pope Francis ‘hasn’t played all his cards yet’ on Ukraine war
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss Pope Francis’ latest moves against the war in Ukraine.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Ukraine mayor invites Pope Francis to visit Kyiv, asking ‘the world’s spiritual leaders to take a stand’
Pope Francis has been invited to the besieged capital of Ukraine.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis on Ukraine: ‘Stop this massacre’
“In the name of God, I ask: Stop this massacre,” the pope said March 13 at the end of his Sunday Angelus address.
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
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.