The pope calls for international institutions to serve the most vulnerable.
“Our church’s ties with state and society here have significantly improved recently,” said a member of the Russian Catholic bishops’ conference.
Despite the decrease, a by the Pew Hispanic Center shows no increase in the flow of immigrants returning to Mexico.
THE VATICAN -- The church’s positions on bioethical issues and matters of global social justice received marked attention during Pope Benedict XVI’s meeting with President Barack Obama on July 10 in Rome. Mr. Obama had traveled to Rome for the Group of 8 summit, an annual meeting of the
Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of Auschwitz for members of Hezbollah were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months.
Orphanage staffers are overwhelmed by the number of children being dropped off because their families cannot feed them.