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Pope’s Ukraine war envoy says world’s challenges can only be solved through ‘multilateralism’

August 28, 2023

ROME — Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the war in Ukraine has said that multilateralism, meaning cooperation among various states and international actors, is the only way to face contemporary challenges, but also warned that such an approach today is “in great difficulty”. In diplomatic jargon, “multilateralism” is generally understood to mean an alternative to

Pope to update environmental teachings in Laudato Si’ to cover extreme weather

August 23, 2023

Pope Francis is writing a second part to Laudato Si’ – his landmark papal encyclical on the environment – to address weather catastrophes such as extreme heat waves, floods and wildfires. The Holy Father revealed that an extended version of the 2015 encyclical on the “the care of our common home” was in the pipeline during off-the-cuff

Vatican announces changes to canon law which may affect Opus Dei

August 09, 2023

The 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic organisation which is currently the church’s lone personal prelature, learned on Tuesday that Pope Francis has changed canon law in a way that may somehow affect them, though it is unclear exactly how the changes to canons 295 and 296 of the

Lisbon notebook: Pilgrims in the park

August 07, 2023

Saturday 5th August PARQUE TEJO TRANCÃO, LISBON – From around 4pm the transition from bustling racket to eerie stillness on the streets of Lisbon was deafening. Pilgrims had spent the day getting their hands on sleeping bags and stocking up on provisions in preparation for the long walk and even longer queues to get to

Synodality: a new perestroika?

August 07, 2023

It is notoriously risky to compare two large historical movements, especially recent or contemporary ones, and to claim to detect similarities between them: quite simply, like is not being compared with like. That said, present debates might benefit from a quite different perspective: a comparison between the current enthusiasm for “synodality” within the Catholic Church and the

Pope in Lisbon calls on youth to be ‘teachers of hope’

August 03, 2023

LISBON – Pope Francis kicked off the second day of his August 2-6 visit to Lisbon meeting with Catholic university students, telling them to maintain a restless search for a better future and to work toward a more inclusive and just world. He praised the contribution of women and told students not to be afraid

Pope offers comfort to Portuguese church facing secularisation in aftermath of abuse scandal

August 02, 2023

LISBON – In the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism, Pope Francis at the end of his first day in Portugal offered words of comfort, urging bishops not to be overcome by discouragement. Referring to the Gospel passage in which Jesus tells Peter

Pope vows to ‘stir things up’, says WYD brings hope to troubled Europe

August 02, 2023

LISBON – In the opening salvo of a five-day trip to Portugal, Pope Francis repeated his condemnations of populism and the inequalities of market capitalism, reiterating his main concerns regarding Europe, including migration, a declining birth rate, and growing polarisation. In that context, the pope said he believes World Youth Day represents hope for the