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Vatican cardinal Tagle backs call for coronavirus ceasefire

Vatican cardinal Tagle backs call for coronavirus ceasefire: “We must be protecting each other, not killing each other”

Pope Francis February 26 in the Wednesday General Audience

General Audience: Pope prays for coronavirus victims, Iraq, Air Italy employees under threat of mass layoffs – full text

Pope Francis' message for Lent 2020

In message for Lent, Pope hits out at “idolatry” of “unbridled thirst for profit”, appeals for “more just and inclusive” economy

Pope prays for victims of Hanau attack

Pope in “mourning”, “deeply affected” by “terrible act of violence” in Hanau

Angelus of Pope Francis

In Angelus, Pope deplores “so many calamities” in Syria: “People that make war don’t know how to control their passions”

The scourge of anti-Semitism

Cardinals in Germany, Italy clamour against anti-Semitism, racial hatred: “Not with me! Never again!”

Armagh archbishop Eamon Martin says 'slowly but surely' on Irish reunification poll plans

Armagh archbishop says slowly but surely on Irish reunification poll

The sign of the Italian priest fighting anti-Semitism

“Cowardice”: Italian priest fighting anti-Semitism suffers parish robbery

Armagh bishops plead with Irish election candidates for 'truly compassionate' society

“Put people first”: Armagh bishops plead with Irish election candidates for “truly compassionate society”

Italian priest has genius idea to combat anti-Semitism... from church's front door

Italian priest has genius idea to combat anti-Semitism… from church’s front door

Investigators at the scene in Drumcondra where the missing teenager's body was found

“Disgusting and beyond belief”: Armagh auxiliary deplores murder of teen, pleads for end to gang “cycle of violence”

Cardinal Zuppi, taking possession January 11 of the title of the church of Sant'Egidio in Rome

Italian cardinal decries “painful experiences” of “always useless” wars: “May the skies of peace open!”

Pope Francis says Mass January 9 in the chapel of his residence, the Casa Santa Marta

Francis: “We cannot be Christians if we are sowers of war”

Energy poverty (stock)

Cardinal sounds alarm for 20,000 “energy poor” in Barcelona

Angelus with the Pope January 5

Pope warns over US-Iran tensions: “War brings only death and destruction”

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin

Dublin archbishop warns “lack of respect for difference can undermine even peaceful societies”

Bishop of Down & Connor (Ireland), Noel Treanor

Bishop of Down and Connor rails against “misguided glorification of violence as a political option”

Pope Francis releases a symbolic peace dove

Fraternity, nonviolence, ecological conversion… the keys to Pope Francis’ thought on peace

Co-Presidents of Pax Christi

Presidents of Pax Christi urge “peace and mutual respect” to break “mentality of threats and fears”

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin

Dublin archbishop decries rise in Ireland of groups “clearly populist and racist”

Satanism (stock)

Veteran Italian exorcist blames secularisation for rise in “aggressive Satanism”

Pope Francis December 20 with UN Secretary General António Guterres

Pope, UN Secretary General plead “not to look the other way” on violence, poverty, climate

Violence (stock)

Irish clerics defend priest who denounced businessman kidnapping, “mafia reign of terror”

Irish archbishop Eamon Martin

Irish archbishop: “Dangerous factionalism” of Brexit “erodes integrity of democracy”

Bishop of Požega (Croatia), Antun Škvorčević

Croatian bishop condemns outbreak of “unacceptable” anti-Serb violence

Beaten Polish priest Aleksander Ziejewski

Polish Bishops denounce “increasingly frequent acts of hatred” after priest beating in Szczecin