Pope Francis: Refugees Are Ending Up in a ‘Desert of Humanity’

Vatican Media. Pope Francis visits Rome’s Astalli Center on Sept. 10, 2013. “Unfortunately, in many cases, setting out has not been a true liberation. All too often you come up against a desert of humanity, with an indifference that has become global and that dries up relations between people.”

Demonstrators gather as US bishops begin meeting (Pillar)

As the US bishops opened their meeting in Baltimore on November 15, lay Catholics from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum demonstrated outside the hotel where the meeting is taking place. About 200 people participated in the “Men’s March,” calling for effective leadership in the fight against abortion. The prayerful march began at a Planned […]