Migrants Archives

What will be Pope Francis’s ‘summer surprise’?

June 7, 2017

On “The Crux of the Matter,” a weekly radio show on the Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129, Crux’s Austen Ivereigh, Charles Collins and John Allen discussed a possible “summer surprise” from Pope Francis – floating a social encyclial a new Marian dogma, and a changing of the guard at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith respectively.

Mexican bishops: The cry of migrants is the cry of the Church

The Mexican Bishops’ Conference released a communiqué stressing the issue of the suffering of migrants and refugees, especially children. In the statement the bishops said that the cry of migrants “is calling out to our hearts and invites us to action.”

God never leaves us alone, pope says at general audience
- Vatican
- April 26, 2017
“Our God is not absent, locked away over the distant sky,” Pope Francis told people gathered in St. Peter’s square for the general audience. “He is instead a God who is ‘passionate’ about man, who loves man so tenderly that he cannot separate Himself from him.”
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Pope tells TED conference to have hope, and calls for ‘tenderness’ from political leaders
- Vatican
- April 26, 2017
In a surprise video appearance at a TED conference, Pope Francis called for more tenderness in the world. The pontiff said tenderness means to “use our eyes to see the other, our ears to hear the other, to listen to the children, the poor, those who are afraid of the future, to listen also to the silent cry of our common home, of our sick and polluted earth.”
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Africans speak up on Trump migration policy: “He will understand”
- AfricaUND, Global Church
- March 24, 2017
Africa is left alone facing the worse economic and social crisis in its recent history and an ensuing diaspora of migrants, leaving the continent to reach Europe and the United States. African Church leaders weigh in on Donald Trump, the migrant crisis and the dangers of Islamic terrorism.
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