The promise of eternal life must lead to greater forgiveness and reconciliation, not passivity in the face of injustice. Such reconciliation can come about only when judgment is left in the hands of God.
Ukraine
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Top U.S. bishops’ committee says Russia’s ‘unprovoked war on Ukraine’ must end now
The Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops March 16 called for “the immediate cessation of Russia’s armed aggression and unprovoked war on Ukraine.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis and Russia’s Patriarch Kirill have video call and express hope for peace in Ukraine
America has learned the meeting between the two religious leaders was first planned a week ago. It was not confirmed who initiated the exchange, but it was the first time the two have spoken since this war broke out.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The outpouring of support for Ukraine is a great thing. Can we show the same compassion for victims of other global crises?
Human suffering crosses all ethnic, racial and political borders. Efforts to alleviate it must do the same.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Read: Pope Francis prays for Ukraine
“Lord Jesus, born under the bombs of Kyiv, have mercy on us. Lord Jesus, dead in the arms of a mother in Kharkiv, have mercy on us.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What does Our Lady of Fátima have to do with Russia and Ukraine?
On March 25, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a penance service. Why?
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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.
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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 inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Parolin calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine: ‘Peace is not a utopia.’
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.
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.”