Christian MP acquitted on all charges after Finland’s Bible tweet trial

The verdict in the closely watched trial of a Finnish Christian MP was announced on Wednesday. A court in Helsinki dismissed all charges against Päivi Räsänen, a physician and mother of five, and Juhana Pohjola, a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, after a free speech trial that drew international attention. The court said in […]

Losing sense of spirit means becoming blind to God, pope says

ROME — Pope Francis asked people to pray for his upcoming trip to Malta and to pray for an end to the “savage cruelty” of war. After delivering his general audience talk in the Paul VI hall March 30, he warmly greeted a group of children from Ukraine who are receiving assistance in Italy, and […]

Cardinal: Saving creation requires seeing each other as brothers, sisters

ROME — Fraternity is the path to salvation, said Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny. “We need a community that supports and helps us, in which we can help one another to keep looking ahead,” he said, quoting Pope Francis. “By ourselves, we risk seeing mirages, things that are not there. Dreams, on the other hand, are […]

Cardinal Czerny: Saving creation requires seeing each other as family

“It is necessary, then, to change approach and admit the urgency of building a ‘we’ that lives in the common home” of creation, said the interim president of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in a talk at the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome March 30.