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Pope Francis presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 23, 2023, for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. / Pablo Esparza/EWTN Vatican City, Aug 21, 2023 / 03:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato si’. The pope said with this new writing he is updating Laudato si’ to cover current issues. He made the statement on the morning of Aug. ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Around two dozen activists and sexual abuse victims demonstrated in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Thursday across the road from a cathedral where Pope Francis was meeting clergy.

By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - Around two dozen activists and sexual abuse victims demonstrated in Democratic Republic of Congos capital on Thursday across the road from a cathedral where Pope Francis was meeting clergy. They held up placards, including some demanding that the pope meet with clergy abuse victims in the country. It was not clear if the pope saw the demonstrators as he arrived and left in a motorcade. The demonstration in Kinshasa was organised by Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA),...

Pope Francis led Congos young people in a rousing denunciation of political corruption on Thursday, turning an otherwise scripted meeting with church catechists into a rally that shook the capitals sports stadium.