Pope Francis decried two divergent issues in an annual “State of the World” address on Jan. 8 to global ambassadors accredited to the Holy See: the status of civilians as “collateral damage” in the ongoing Israeli-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars, and the practice of surrogate motherhood.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and