Once again, Pope Francis avoided speaking directly about Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead focused on condemning war as a cruel and inhumane act that "goes against the human spirit."
During a conversation with journalists April 3, on the flight from Malta to
A bishop in Ukraine accused Russian forces of deliberately targeting aid centers and of destroying the port of Mariupol to scare other cities into surrendering.
"The Russians look for aid and medical distribution points where people gather -- this is why charitable work
The perseverance of prayer, dialogue, truth and support with Lenten resolve is a way to end the war in Ukraine and 12 other conflicts around the world, a panel of experts said Thursday during a streamed discussion sponsored by the Initiative on
ROME (CNS) — With his voice often trembling and tears sliding down to his beard, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke via Zoom about the death and destruction Russia is raining down on his people and his country. Archbishop Sviatoslav
Pope Francis renewed his call for an end to the war in Ukraine and strongly denounced the conflict as a barbaric act used by those in power at the cost of innocent lives.
"We need to reject war, a place of death where
Pope Francis again condemned Russia's war on Ukraine, calling it a "senseless massacre" and "sacrilegious" attack on human life.
"Sadly, the violent aggression against Ukraine does not stop, a senseless massacre where each day slaughter and atrocities are repeated," the pope said March
A Ukrainian priest described escaping from his bombed-out parish in Mariupol and said he still hopes some Catholics will survive the relentless Russian onslaught.
Pauline Father Pavlo Tomaszewski said the decision to leave was not easy, "but when they started shelling the whole
As stories of Russian atrocities against Ukraine fill headlines and social media feeds, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea for NATO to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine has begun to fall on sympathetic ears. Accounts of Russian attacks on hospitals and civilian
Asking God to forgive all people tempted by violence, Pope Francis prayed for an end to the war in Ukraine and the fratricidal killing of both combatants and civilians caught in the crossfire.
"Forgive us Lord if we continue to kill our brother.
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party began violently vandalizing thousands of Jewish synagogues, hospitals, cemeteries, businesses, homes and schools across the country in 1938, the Church was watching. Pope Pius XI, who died in 1939, and his successor, Pope Pius XII,