After Vatican visit, Blinken praises Pope Francis’s work on LGBTQ rights
Vatican City Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday praised Pope Francis for his work on LGBTQI issues after meeting the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church and other senior officials at the Vatican. “The Secretary commended the Pope’s commitment to advancing the basic rights and dignity of LGBTQI persons,” US State […]
Italy’s Meloni makes first state visit to meet with Francis
Vatican City Reuters Italy’s new rightist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Pope Francis and top Vatican officials on Tuesday, holding what the Holy See called “cordial discussions”. Meloni, who took office in October at the helm of the most right-wing government in Italy’s postwar history, is a staunch Catholic conservative. Pope Francis speaks to Italian […]
Pope Francis puts Jews’ desperate wartime appeals to Pope Pius XII online
Vatican City RNS After opening its trove of Pius XII’s papers to scholars in 2020, the Vatican is making available to the public almost 40,000 files containing appeals by Jews fearing Nazi persecution for help from the wartime Pope. The decision, announced on Thursday, follows reports by researchers and academics suggesting that the controversial Pope […]