Cardinal Michael Czerny Archives

After a too-long Lent, cardinal gives ideas for an extended Easter season
- Apr 8, 2021
After what feels like “a truly trying Lent of 400-plus days” because of the coronavirus pandemic, Christians need to “envisage and embrace” a season of Easter faith and hope that goes beyond the traditional 50 days, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.

By Cindy Wooden
Pope Francis on climate and migration: ‘To see or not to see, that is the question’
- Mar 31, 2021
Renewing his calls for an integral ecology and pastoral reach to climate displaced people, Pope Francis channeled his inner William Shakespeare, arguing that when engulfed by images of people uprooted by changes in climate, “to see or not to see, that is the question!”

By Inés San Martín
Cardinal Czerny outlines role of ‘Fratelli Tutti’ in consecrated life
- Jan 23, 2021
The value of Fratelli Tutti “is to be found in the firm decision to follow up and implement the teaching of the council: Universal fraternity and social friendship are for today’s world a ‘sign of the times,'” said Czech Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in a Jan. 21 online address to CMSM.

By Mark Pattison

Top Vatican official hails witness of murdered American missionaries
- Dec 3, 2020
On the 40th anniversary of the murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador, Vatican officials, including Pope Francis, have praised the women as martyrs and models of evangelization and of God’s preferential love for the poor and needy.

By Elise Ann Allen

‘Just war’ theory often misused for unjust motives, cardinal says

Nov 19, 2020

Pope Francis’s teaching on the “just war” theory is a crucial point of reflection in today’s world where the historic motives to morally justify aggression and violence are often misused, said Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican’s Migrants and Refugees Section.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Conference takes stock of progress in AIDS fight during COVID-19 pandemic

Sep 26, 2020

When COVID-19 struck communities around the world earlier this year, religious leaders who had responded to the HIV pandemic for decades were uniquely situated to confront the challenges the new virus presented, said international health officials who participated in a three-day virtual conference on the interfaith response to HIV and AIDS.

By Paul Jeffrey