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In Santa Marta Mass, Pope sounds alarm on future after COVID-19

In Santa Marta Mass, Pope sounds alarm on future after COVID-19: “Poverty, unemployment, hunger…”

#JustRecovery - Catholic groups join call for 'healthier and more equitable' future after COVID-19

#JustRecovery: Catholic groups join call for “healthier and more equitable future” after COVID-19

Spanish missionaries alert hunger will be more deadly than the coronavirus

Spanish missionaries alert “hunger will be more deadly than the coronavirus”

Vatican cardinal close to Pope tests positive for COVID-19

Cardinal close to Pope tests positive for COVID-19: “I am at peace and confident”

Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development denounces lack of clean water endangering 'billions'

Vatican Dicastery for Human Development denounces lack of clean water endangering “billions”

Vatican cardinal, on COVID-19 - 'We should wash our hands, but not of our responsibility for the vulnerable'

Vatican cardinal, on COVID-19: “We should wash our hands, but not of our responsibility for the vulnerable”

In Santa Marta Mass, Pope deplores people hungry, families in need due to coronavirus

Coronavirus: In Santa Marta Mass, Pope deplores people hungry, families in need due to pandemic

Swiss Church urges solidarity with poorest in coronavirus crisis

Swiss Church urges solidarity with poorest in coronavirus crisis, suspends public Masses until May

Maltese Catholic groups sound COVID-19 alarm for poor

Maltese Catholic groups sound COVID-19 alarm for poor: “Although illness doesn’t discriminate, the economic fall‑out will”

Papal almoner urges solidarity with less fortunate in virus pandemic

Papal almoner urges solidarity with less fortunate in virus pandemic: “Don’t ignore the poor Lazarus who knocks at your door”

Bishops call on EU to ensure disadvantaged, migrant, disabled youths' involvement in education, exchange programs

Updated: EU Bishops call on Brussels for more inclusive youth programs, cancel 40th anniversary celebrations over coronavirus

'Pope's Robin Hood' Cardinal Krajewski defies decree closing Rome churches over coronavirus

Updated: “Home should always be open to its children”: ‘Pope’s Robin Hood’ defies coronavirus fears, opens church for prayer

Francis deplores 'abyss of indifference' towards poor, gives 100,000 euros for attention to vulnerable in virus crisis

Francis deplores “abyss of indifference” towards poor, gives 100,000 euros for attention to vulnerable in virus crisis

Caritas Portugal denounces 'scourge' of country's housing 'emergency'

Caritas Portugal deplores “scourge” of country’s housing “emergency”, spread of social exclusion

Catholic women call global Church strike - 'The all-male, celibate hierarchy has failed to live the Gospel'

Catholic women call global Church strike: “The all-male, celibate hierarchy has failed to live the Gospel”

Vatican closes health services after first coronavirus infection

Vatican closes outpatient services after first coronavirus infection, but says Pope on mend from cold

Caritas Portugal denounces lack of 'firm political will' to solve 'very serious' housing crisis

Caritas Portugal denounces lack of political will to solve “very serious” housing crisis

Man-made climate change

Catholic climate campaigner urges faithful “to stand up against” world’s “arrogance, apathy and avarice”

Church aid org Caritas pushes EU for "socially responsible, human-centred" budget

Church aid org Caritas pushes EU for “socially responsible, human-centred” budget

Portuguese bishop warns of 'very serious' housing problem in country as Church accompanies demolition of illegal settlement

Portuguese bishop warns of “very serious” housing problem in country as Church accompanies demolition of illegal settlement

Pope Francis blesses a poor woman

Pope cries: “It is imperative to end the exploitation of the poorest!”

Poverty and inquality in Europe

Church charity Caritas denounces bureaucracy, legal barriers to basic services increasing poverty, inequality in Europe

A man kisses the Pope during the General Audience Wednesday 19 February

Pope insists on World Social Justice Day on “rights” and “immense dignity” of poor and abandoned

German bishop Gregor Maria Hanke (Eichstätt) decries - 'We live with our prosperity at the expense of less developed countries'

German bishop decries: “We live with our prosperity at the expense of less developed countries”

Vatican cardinal Pietro Parolin responded to the Rome national conservatism conference in an event with Sant'Egidio

Vatican responds to Rome national conservatism conference: “Nationalisms are childish reactions to the great global world”

Pope pleads for economy based on 'inclusion, care for our Common Home and integral human development'

Pope pleads for economy based on “inclusion, care for our Common Home and integral human development”

Pope agitates for global economic reform with leading world economists and finance ministers

Pope agitates for global economic reform: “A rich world can and must put an end to poverty”

Home-precarious in Barcelona

Barcelona cardinal laments plight of half-million home-precarious, one-in-four in social exclusion

Priest Robert Sirico launches his anti-Francis economy book in Madrid

Anti-Francis lobby ramps up attack on Pope’s economic vision with pro-free market book launch in Madrid

Cardinal Peter Turkson, in Davos

Vatican cardinal’s impassioned plea to Davos: “The Earth and the poor are crying”