Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Venezuelan cardinal says country needs ‘peaceful, negotiated’ solution to political crisis
- Jun 14, 2021
Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras says Pope Francis has the South American country in his heart.

By Inés San Martín
Vatican officials say lack of food ‘criminal’ and call for greater access
- Jun 1, 2021
Quoting both Pope Francis and his predecessor, Benedict XVI, the Vatican’s point man on human development defined hunger as “criminal” and access to food as an “an inalienable right” during an online seminar Monday.

By Inés San Martín
Vatican No. 2 intervenes to shed light on Swiss Guard deaths
- May 4, 2021
The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally to shed light on one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life.

By Nicole Winfield

Vatican No 2 skips trip to Venezuela, cites pandemic
- Apr 28, 2021
The Vatican No. 2 is skipping a planned trip to Venezuela this week because of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Associated Press

Fraternity needed to address global challenges, Vatican official says
- Apr 15, 2021
Fraternity is more than just a virtuous principle, it is a necessary means to confront the great humanitarian and social challenges facing the world, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

By Junno Arocho Esteves
Cardinal Parolin says church divisions stem from misunderstanding ‘reform’
- Apr 5, 2021
Three days after the preacher of the papal household called on Catholics to repent for the ways they are dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and they are harmful.

By Cindy Wooden
‘Pope of the Little Guy’ caught up in the heavy lifting of reform
- Mar 28, 2021
Pope Francis legendarily has a keen sense of justice and a hard-wired bias in favor of the underdog, but it’s also clear that Francis, like pretty much every reformer pope before him, is still struggling with the institutional translation of those core instincts.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Rethink arms funding to protect vulnerable, say Vatican webinar speakers
- Mar 25, 2021
The world needs to rethink personal security and move away from the idea that complex weapons systems can protect people, said speakers at a Vatican-led webinar.

By Dennis Sadowski