Pope appoints nun as No. 2 of Dicastery for Consecrated Life
The Italian nun has served as the superior-general of her community and had a PhD in psychology.
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The Italian nun has served as the superior-general of her community and had a PhD in psychology.
Secretary emeritus of Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, Cardinal Agostino Marchetto, 83, got his red hat from Pope Francis during Saturday’s consistory.
(RNS) — In Pope Francis' new global church, the Vatican pastime of predicting the next pope gets increasingly trickier.
“We cannot be resigned to seeing human beings treated as bargaining chips, imprisoned and tortured in atrocious ways; we can no longer watch the drama of shipwrecks, caused by the cruel trafficking and the fanaticism of indifference,” the pope said.
As Pope Francis heads to Marseille this weekend for a summit on the Mediterranean, two towering issues will loom large, and those are the ongoing migration crisis amid a new surge in arrivals to Europe as well as the global climate agenda.