A Personal Invitation from Dr. Robert Moynihan: Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has asked to be received in audience by Pope Francis in two days, on Wednesday, June 10, and Pope Francis has agreed to the meeting. What is the purpose of this unexpected encounter? No information has yet been made public, but we know that it [...]
An armed pro-Russian separatist stands at the site in eastern Ukraine where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crashed on July 17. The precise cause of the crash was not clear in the days after it occurred (CNS photo/Maxim Zmeyev, Reuters). A British priest who is a leading scholar in the field of ecumenism, [...]
Thursday 5 A LETTER TO PUTIN Pope Francis wrote to Vladimir Putin, Russian president, host of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 5-6. The pontiff asked leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies to “lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution” to the Syrian civil war and promote instead a “peaceful solution through [...]