Cardinal Pietro Parolin Archives

Parolin says ‘time is needed’ to judge Trump, pushes U.S. on climate change

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian daily, the Vatican’s top diplomat, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke about the United States’ administration, about his upcoming trip to Russia, the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, and the Church’s hope for people in China to have the right to “freely profess” their faith.

Pope begins answering priests from troubled Nigerian diocese

Last June, Pope Francis threatened the priests of the Ahiara diocese in Nigeria with suspension unless they wrote a letter addressed to him, apologizing for refusing to accept their bishop, appointed by Benedict XVI in 2012. Days after the deadline, letters from Rome responding to each priest individually began to arrive in the diocese.

Parolin’s visit to Russia key step in Pope Francis’s courtship of Putin

Vatican

July 21, 2017

The second highest-ranking official in the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is preparing for his August trip to Russia. The historic event represents a key step in Pope Francis’s courtship with President Putin, with one eye pointed toward ambitious ecumenical possibilities with the Orthodox Church and the other fixed on the Middle East.

Vatican’s top diplomat condems attack against Venezuelan cardinal
- Global Church
- July 20, 2017
Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, sent a letter to Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, who on Sunday was forced to remain locked in a church with hundreds of people as pro-government militias opened fire against people waiting near by to cast their votes in a referendum against President Nicolas Maduro.
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Venezuelan bishops: End the ‘inhuman repression’
- Global Church
- July 13, 2017
Clashes between protesters and the country’s security forces have left at least 91 dead in the past 100 days. Addressing the army and the police, the bishops ask them to serve the people, not a regime, and remind them that they will have to “answer for your acts both to human and divine justice.”
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Pope says hunger caused by indifference of many, selfishness of a few
- Vatican
- July 3, 2017
Pope Francis told the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the international community should acknowledge hunger and malnutrition are not “natural or structural phenomena.” The pope said “we are dealing with a complex mechanism that mainly burdens the most vulnerable, who are not only excluded from the processes of production, but frequently obliged to leave their lands in search of refuge and hope.”
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