Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich Archives

Cardinal warns the rise of nationalist parties shows Europe is ‘fragile’

Jun 11, 2021

Reflecting on Europe’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said that it was “very bad at the beginning and very good at the end.”

By Inés San Martín

Ahead of U.S.-EU summit, Church leaders call for global access to vaccines

Jun 9, 2021

Ahead of the EU-U.S. Summit, the heads of the European Union bishops commission and U.S. Bishops Conference are urging government leaders to work together to help the world through the COVID-19 pandemic and solve other pressing issues worldwide.

By John Lavenburg

Bishops, anti-abuse experts praise bid to own up to ‘institutional failures’

Jun 6, 2021

Abuse scandals have exposed “systemic weaknesses in the church that also call for systemic responses. A purely legal review and administrative changes are not enough,” said Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, noting that Marx’s decision was a “personal response” to the failures of the past.

By Elise Ann Allen

Cardinal predicts Church, Europe will be ‘weaker’ after pandemic

Sep 4, 2020

Cardinal Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg has said that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, he believes both Europe and the Catholic Church on the continent will come out weaker than they were before.

By Elise Ann Allen

Cardinal fears coronavirus could be end of European Union

Apr 17, 2020

Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich in a provocative new article has voiced fears that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic could begin the downfall of the European Union due to a lack of solidarity with nations facing massive outbreaks.

By Elise Ann Allen

EU’s Christian leaders warn against ‘fear and nationalism’ during COVID-19 crisis

Apr 3, 2020

The European Union’s top Christian leaders have called for the continent to show “our joint commitment to the European project and to common European values of solidarity and unity, instead of capitulating to fear and nationalism” during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

By Crux Staff

Catholic agencies: Move refugees from Greece to avoid pandemic disaster

Mar 25, 2020

Catholic aid agencies have urged the evacuation of Syrian war refugees from camps in Greece to “avert a catastrophe” from the coronavirus. “More than 42,000 people are trapped in hopelessly overcrowded camps and horrific conditions — there is no hope of containing any outbreak,” Caritas Europe, Jesuit Refugees Service and

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Papal aides call on European bishops to welcome refugee families

Feb 24, 2020

Some of Pope Francis’s closest advisors have called on EU bishops’ conferences to help facilitate the transfer of 20,000 refugees from Lesbos, Greece, to other European countries.

By Charles Collins