In a recent speech, Pope Francis said: No human being can ever be incompatible with life, not due to his age, his health conditions, or the quality of his existence. Every child that enters a woman’s womb is a gift, which changes the story of a family: of a father and a mother, of grandparents… Read More Pope Francis Denounces Eugenic Mentality of Killing Sick and Vulnerable Children
Pope Francis: “Let us never forget our grandparents’ expression: ‘God always forgives, men sometimes forgive, nature never forgives.’ And we are seeing this, due to mistreatment and exploitation.”
via Reuters: Pope Francis said he was willing to tell U.S. President Donald Trump in person that it is wrong to build border walls and appeared to warn him not to resume a policy of separating families. In a wide-ranging television interview with Mexico’s Televisa aired on Tuesday, the pope also shrugged off criticism from… Read More Pope Denounces Trump’s Proposed Wall and Separating Families
NBC’s Dasha Burns looks at life as a pro-life Democrat:
Pope Francis at a recent ‘Meeting with Finance Ministers from Various Nations’: We live at a time when profits and losses seem to be more highly valued than lives and deaths, and when a company’s net worth is given precedence over the infinite worth of our human family. You are here today to reflect on… Read More Pope Francis Calls for Immediate Action on the Climate Crisis
via CNS: For young men and women, competitive sports like soccer not only help strengthen their bodies, but also help strengthen their souls in creating last bonds of friendship through teamwork, Pope Francis said. Speaking to 6,000 young people at a gathering co-sponsored by the Italian Gaming Federation of Soccer May 24, the pope encouraged… Read More Pope Francis: Soccer Offers an Alternative to Isolation and Self-Centeredness
via PBS NewsHour: While one phrase of Syria’s brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly The New York Times about the staggering inhumanity of Bashar… Read More More Than 100,000 Have Entered Assad’s Prisons — And Never Returned
