Querida Amazonia

Pope’s point-man on migrants worries about spread of ‘dangerous’ falsehoods
- Mar 3, 2020
Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, Under-Secretary of the Migrant sand Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has something keeping him up at night: “The challenge of seeking to engage with truth in spite of the falsehoods that spread so rapidly in modern social media.”

By Inés San Martín
US Catholics respond to Pope’s ‘challenging’ Amazon document
- Feb 15, 2020
The pope’s highly anticipated apostolic exhortation on the Amazon has sparked a variety of responses from Catholics around the United States.

By Nick Mayrand
Mixed reactions to Querida Amazonia from Brazilian bishops
- Feb 15, 2020
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation published by Pope Francis on Feb. 12 generated mixed reactions from the Brazilian episcopate.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Amazon’s Catholics mull Church future after pope’s letter
- Feb 14, 2020
Catholic priests, deacons and bishops across the Amazon voiced surprise, resignation and reluctant acceptance of Pope Francis’s refusal to allow married men to be ordained priests, lamenting that their faithful will continue to be deprived of Mass and subject to competing evangelical churches that have made impressive inroads in the region.

By Manuel Rueda, Diane Jeantet, Franklin Briceno and Gonzalo Solano
Pope shares with U.S. bishops his frustration with reaction to Amazon text
- Feb 13, 2020
Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that, like them, he is accused of not being courageous or not listening to the Holy Spirit when he says or does something someone disagrees with — like not mentioning married priests in his document on the Amazon.

By Catholic News Service

Pope’s point-man on migrants worries about spread of ‘dangerous’ falsehoods