Cardinal Pietro Parolin Archives

Pope encourages young people to pray together, support each other

Dec 28, 2020

Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevented European young adults from praying in the New Year together in Turin, Italy, moving the Taize prayer gathering online has allowed them to involve their peers from around the world in proclaiming “hope in good times and bad,” Pope Francis said.

By Cindy Wooden

Nations must work together to address pandemic’s challenges, cardinal says
- Dec 4, 2020
The world must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with greater attention to the poor and vulnerable and with increased cooperation for fairly distributing ethical vaccines, the Vatican’s secretary of state told the U.N. General Assembly Dec. 3.

By Carol Glatz
Correspondence shows Vatican vowed solidarity with Jews 25 years before Holocaust
- Nov 20, 2020
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that recently-discovered correspondence between one of his predecessors and a prominent American Jewish organization shows that the Holy See had vowed solidarity with Jews roughly 25 years before the Holocaust.

By Elise Ann Allen
Pope moves against secretariat of state amid finance scandal
- Nov 5, 2020
Pope Francis has given the Vatican secretariat of state three months to transfer all of its financial holdings to another Vatican office following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation.

By Nicole Winfield