Tag: Pope Francis

“The ‘day after’ — if there will still be days and human beings — we will have to start again from scratch.”

Pope Francis will consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25 during the Celebration of Penance

"We need to resist the temptation of activism and find time to reflect, to think, to contemplate,” Pope Francis told a non-profit group

The papal envoys’ presence in Ukraine was “a double response, one of immediate charity and one of integral human development"

“With an aching heart I add my voice to that of the common people, who implore the end of the war,” the pope said on March 13

Pope Francis observed that as followers of Jesus, we are prone to the same weaknesses as the apostles

Synodality in judicial matters “means that all the participants in the process ... are called to contribute to the ascertainment of the truth"

The appeal comes after Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops asked Pope Francis to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to Mary

What, then, led to Pope Francis’ decision to take a different tack on the Ukrainian question last Sunday?

Cardinal Parolin said the Vatican’s intervention can be done through several levels, the first of which is “the religious level”