For these working stiffs, ambivalence rather than amore from the Pope
- Apr 18, 2021
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Vatican foreign minister says Pope wants to save Middle East Christianity
- Mar 8, 2021
“That’s something that the pope is trying to do, but it’s very difficult,” Gallagher said when asked if he though part of Francis’ sense of urgency to go to Iraq despite the COVID-19 pandemic and safety concerns was the risk of Christianity disappearing from the Middle East.
After historic whirlwind visit, Pope leaves Iraq for Rome
- Mar 8, 2021
Pope Francis on Monday wrapped up his historic whirlwind tour of Iraq that sought to bring hope to the country’s marginalized Christian minority with a message of coexistence, forgiveness and peace.
Iraqi Catholic leader calls Pope Francis’s trip a ‘miracle’
- Mar 8, 2021
Although the impact of papal trips is often hard to assess in the immediate aftermath, such cautions mean little to the leader of Iraq’s local Catholic church, who quickly proclaimed Pope Francis’s March 5-8 visit to his nation a “miracle” on Sunday.
Cleanse your hearts of anger, live the Gospel, pope says at Mass in Irbil
- Mar 7, 2021
Having witnessed or even experienced persecution for their faith, the Christians of Iraq must be careful not to harbor thoughts of revenge, Pope Francis told them.
With Iraqi Christians, Pope extols women brutalized by ISIS
- Mar 7, 2021
Speaking to a crowd that saw its girls and women sold as property by Islamic State terrorists, and on the eve of International Women’s Day, Pope Francis gave a “heartfelt thank-you to all the mothers and women of this country, women of courage who continue to give life, despite the wrongs and hurts.”
Pope warns Christian exodus from Middle East does ‘incalculable harm’
- Mar 7, 2021
The “tragic diminution of Jesus’ disciples here and across the Middle East,” the pope said, “does incalculable harm not just to the individuals and communities concerned, but also to the society they leave behind.”
Pope in Iraq puts spiritual spotlight on Abraham’s ‘Yes’ to God
- Mar 7, 2021
In the Bible, Abraham comes on the scene at the very beginning of recorded history.
Francis in Iraq arguably the most emblematic papal trip of all time
- Mar 7, 2021
If you’d polled 100 Vatican officials and papal diplomats six months ago, probably 99 would have counseled against a papal trip to Iraq.
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