address to diplomats Archives

Facing rising nationalist and populist tide, Pope extols multilateral diplomacy

Vatican
Jan 7, 2019

Pope Francis on Monday delivered his annual speech to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, laying out his social and political agenda for the year.

Israeli envoy to Vatican: ‘We want peace as much as His Holiness’

Interviews, Vatican
Jan 10, 2018

Israel’s Ambassador to the Holy See says that when Pope Francis addressed the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in his annual speech to diplomats on Monday, there was nothing new there — and insists that Israel wants peace as much as Francis does.

Voice from Singapore: ‘Demographic winter’ isn’t just Europe

Vatican
Jan 9, 2018

Singapore’s envoy to the Vatican says that when Pope Francis speaks, the international community listens — and that Asia heard something especially relevant on Monday when the pontiff addressed the risk of a “demographic winter.”

Pope’s speech to diplomats reflects his Latin American background

Analysis
Jan 9, 2018

This year’s landmark foreign policy speech by Pope Francis was really about one thing, globalization — and especially the Latin American Church’s view of it.

Pope laments arms, anti-immigrant rhetoric and ‘ideological colonization’ all at once

Vatican
Jan 8, 2018

In his most important foreign policy speech of the year, Pope Francis once again defied the usual categories of left v. right, voicing strong support for progressive causes such as nuclear disarmament, immigrant rights and battling climate change, but also stern opposition to abortion, assaults on the family and “ideological colonization.”

Francis offers reassuring hand to a world darkened by war

Vatican
Jan 9, 2017

Pope Francis struck a sombre tone in his annual address to ambassadors, as if detecting in this moment the signs of the coming of war. While putting down red markers over Israel-Palestine and migration, the heart of his message was the need to make peace in a time of turbulence.