Plans to resettle 520 migrants inadequate – claim

50 The number of homeless and poor people led by Rome’s St Lucia parish, with financial assistance from Pope Francis, on a pilgrimage to see the Shroud of Turin on June 4. Parish priest Fr Antonio Nicolai said the Pope offered help to the pilgrims with “the conviction that, like the shroud, they represented the…

Social apathy and economic focus are consequences of financial crisis, says Cardinal The global financial crisis has driven a loss of meaning and social apathy, causing people to turn away from the common good in favour of a minimalist anthropology pointed towards economic function, according to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The…

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called on Pope Francis to issue an apology to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis survivors, families, and communities for the Church's role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of children in Catholic-run residential schools. The commission was established under the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement,…

An electrical fault left them suspended as they were making their way to the ground floor on Friday evening

As many as 135,000 people, according to organisers, took part in a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Describing the victims of the Tiananmen massacre as "our martyrs" who must not be forgotten, Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, said, “Some Catholics say that…

The Christians of Bosnia-Herzegovina have a duty to forgive the cruelty of the Yugoslav Civil War, but not to forget it, according to Pope Francis. Speaking to a gathering of priests, religious, and seminarians at Sarajevo’s cathedral as part of a one-day visit to the Bosnian capital, the Pontiff laid aside his prepared text after…