Migrants and refugees must be given a dignified welcome, the pope said in his New Year’s message.
Vatican
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis gathers Rome’s homeless to celebrate Epiphany.
Francis said he too wanted to give the faithful the gift of God's mercy for the coming year.
Posted inFaith
Pope Francis still hasn’t responded to the dubia. He has good reason not to.
The dubia stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and the renewal that began with Vatican II.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis to world’s bishops: Maintain ‘zero tolerance’ for child abuse
“It is a sin that shames us,” Pope Francis wrote. “Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity.”
Posted inFaith, News
Nearly 4 million people visited the Vatican during the Year of Mercy
Although the total was slightly higher from the 3.2 million visitors received by Pope Francis in 2015, for a jubilee year it still fell short of the 5.9 million pilgrims who visited in 2014.
Posted inFaith, News
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.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Pope Francis didn’t slow down in 2016 (and it doesn’t look like 2017 will be different)
Though he turned 80 a couple of weeks ago, Pope Francis did not slow down in 2016.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Archbishop Coleridge: Resist ‘False Clarity’
As the head of the Archdiocese of Brisbane on the east coast of Australia, the archbishop was a delegate to the meeting of the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 2015.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Colombia Peacemakers
In an unexpected diplomatic initiative to consolidate the fragile peace accord in Colombia, Pope Francis on Dec. 14 brought together the country’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his archrival, former president Senator Álvaro Uribe, a strong opponent of the accord.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Refugee Office
Moving quickly to strengthen the Section for Refugees and Migrants in the new Vatican department for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, Pope Francis has appointed as under secretaries a Canadian Jesuit, Michael Czerny, and an Italian member of the Scalabrini Fathers, Fabio Baggio. The Vati