
Pope Speaks Truth to a Nation ‘That Is No Longer Listening’
EDITORIAL: The response to the Holy Father’s remarks on abortion and women says more about the capitulation of the once-Catholic country of Belgium to secularism than about the Church.
EDITORIAL: The response to the Holy Father’s remarks on abortion and women says more about the capitulation of the once-Catholic country of Belgium to secularism than about the Church.
ANALYSIS: Faith is flagging and euthanasia expanding in Belgium, once a bastion of Catholic culture.
Francis urges the faithful gathered at Marian shrine to emulate the saints by bringing Christ to others.
John Paul II visited Papua New Guinea for the first time in May 1984.
Francis will be the third Pope to visit Indonesia after St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II.
‘Spread the Gospel of hope,’ the Pope told the faithful in his July 7 homily.
The papal day trip will be Sunday, April 28, the Vatican announced.
COMMENTARY: There are many reasons, but his visiting Argentina would offer the Holy Father a chance to articulate a positive vision for Argentina’s political and economic future.
Pope Francis touched on immigration, war in Ukraine, and gender issues in a country whose government has styled itself as a defender of Christian values.
COMMENTARY: On the choice between Brussels and Budapest, Pope Francis picked Rome — exposing reductive media accounts in the process.
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