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Pope To Meet Ukraine's Zelensky At Vatican Friday

Pope To Meet Ukraine's Zelensky At Vatican Friday

By AFP - Agence France Presse

October 9, 2024

Pope Francis will meet Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the Vatican, officials said, while media reported the Ukrainian leader would also meet Italy's prime minister in Rome.

A calendar event sent by the Vatican to the media indicated a half-hour meeting between the pope and Zelensky beginning at 9:30 am (0730 GMT) on Friday at the Vatican.

Italian media reported that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would be meeting with the Ukranian president Thursday evening, although nothing has been officially confirmed.

Zelensky was in Croatia on Wednesday at a summit with Balkan leaders to seek international military support.

He had been due to attend an international meeting on UKraine at a US air base in Germany on Saturday.

But that meeting of more than 50 countries was pushed back Wednesday after President Joe Biden called off a planned state visit to Germany and Angola due to Hurrican Milton.

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A Reset With Rome, But Not at Home The Vatican welcomes a Biden presidency. Do the bishops?

By Massimo Faggioli

November 23, 2020

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on April 29, 2016 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).


The Trump era represents an extraordinary period in the history of relations between a U.S. administration and the papacy. I think back to September 2015 when, soon after Donald Trump declared his candidacy, Pope Francis traveled to the United States. American Catholics seemed to rally around the pope, while almost no one was taking Trump’s bid for the presidency seriously. Then his campaign got underway, and he started to gain traction with his promises about building walls and banning Muslims. In early 2016, during an in-flight press conference while heading home from Mexico, the pope dared to describe these proposed policies as “not Christian.” Trump responded by calling Pope Francis’s statement “disgraceful.” It was now clear and on the record that Francis and Trump represented divergent worldviews, a split that EWTN and Fox News gleefully seized on and amplified, driving a narrative that, if not conducive to formal schism, nonetheless reeked of a nationalist Catholicism while undermining belief in the unity of the Church. And it would only get worse from there.

During the 2016 campaign, the Vatican had rooted not-so-secretly for Hillary Clinton. Never mind her stance on abortion, or that as secretary of state she had skipped a trip to the Vatican (becoming the first secretary of state since the Nixon administration not to visit the pope)—she was still the less bad of two bad options. Trump’s victory in November stunned the Vatican, but it didn’t flinch. Rather, it adhered to old diplomatic adages: “Never close a door” and “make yourself predictable.” Of course, this was not to be the way of the new president. While he behaved according to protocol on his visit with the first lady to the Vatican in May 2017, even projecting a sense of diplomatic normalcy, operatives like Newt Gingrich and Steve Bannon were simultaneously forging connections with anti-Francis prelates in a political project aimed at subverting the status quo both in Europe and in the Catholic Church. The idea was to introduce into the symbolic and administrative heart of Catholicism the pathogen that would be known as Trumpism, perhaps even to make Rome the parallel capital of a new anti-European and anti-Francis continent. That project, fortunately, has failed; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s extraordinary October attack against the sovereign diplomacy of the Holy See over its renewal of the September 2018 provisional agreement with China in some ways serves as proof. Indeed, his tantrum might actually have worked to Francis’s benefit, as the Vatican was able to signal to the world that it doesn’t take orders from America.

The Vatican can only be pleased with the arrival of a Biden presidency, and with it a return of diplomatic stability. Pope Francis acknowledging the result of the presidential election and congratulating Biden on November 12 (while Trump still hasn’t conceded) indicates the relief Rome feels. The new administration’s preference for multilateralism aligns with the Vatican’s, and they also converge on important issues like migration and the environment. Soon there will be a new ambassador to the Holy See, and, following the tenure of Calista Gingrich (third wife of Newt), the appointment could send some interesting signals. Recall that President Obama appointed Catholic theology professor Miguel Diaz (2009–2013) and former president of Catholic Relief Services Ken Hackett (2013–2017). There may also be a change in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission to the United States: in January, papal nuncio Archbishop Christophe Pierre turns seventy-five, the age at which a Catholic bishop must submit his resignation to the pope.

'The Vatican can only be pleased with the arrival of a Biden presidency, and with it a return of diplomatic stability'.

Yet it’s not quite as clear what Biden’s election will mean on the ecclesial front. Trump clearly helped create the atmosphere that emboldened and enabled right-wing Catholics not only to mount their campaign against Francis, but also to attack Biden’s Catholicism. Attempts at schism may have failed, but it’s hard to believe that Trump’s departure will quiet these efforts, at least as long as Francis is pope and Biden is in the White House. And though an America under Biden might seem a better fit with this papacy, it’s worth remembering that the most important documents Francis has produced—Laudato si’, Amoris laetitia, and Fratelli tutti—speak to the United States in a direct and not uncritical way. They don’t at all suggest anti-Americanism, but they do suggest a view of the world that is post-American.

Of course, there’s also the fact of Biden’s Catholicism. The pope and the new president may be nearly of the same generation, but Biden represents a specific kind of American Catholicism that is rapidly becoming a part of the past—a Catholicism shaped by European immigrant tradition and formed by an education largely provided by religious orders (male and female), lived out in densely populated regions of the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Now that the American Church is more ethnically and geographically diverse, he cannot be said to represent either its present or its future. There also remains the division among American Catholics that even a bridge-builder like Francis is unlikely to heal. It is disheartening but instructive to note the refusal of almost the entire U.S. episcopate to condemn Republican attacks on democracy, ranging from voter suppression to the undermining of the electoral process through baseless claims of fraud. Their lukewarm (at best) acknowledgement of Biden’s victory is disconcerting, as is their refusal, so far, to open a dialogue with the president-elect. Trump as of now still refuses to concede and persists with his efforts to overturn the results of an election he clearly lost—while the bishops say nothing. Their silence suggests not neutrality but partisanship, and only hastens the collapse of their credibility.

Right now there is an urgent need for a return of normalcy, and the U.S. bishops could help by saying normal things. The polarization on moral and ethical issues between the two political parties—from sexuality and marriage to immigration and religious freedom—mirrors that in the religious realm, and it has been worsening for decades. But it’s compounded at this moment by the reemergence in mainstream culture of anti-scientific and neo-medieval religious convictions, and their expression through conspiracy theories. (It’s not just an American problem; the most popular Catholic radio station in Italy, Radio Maria, has lately been peddling the theory that COVID-19 was created by cosmopolitan elites in order to destroy the Church.) We need to remember that the American Catholic project is inseparable from the two-century-long project of making the Church a pillar of American freedom. We may have a new president. But we should be concerned about the lasting damage the outgoing one has done. Trumpism still threatens the Catholic contribution to the moral-religious consensus at the basis of democracy in America, along with the viability of the American Catholic project itself.

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Pope explains his economic model: Promoting development and not just immediate benefits

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The pope met with the Council for Inclusive Capitalism. It is an organization that brings together business people and political leaders to promote an economy for the benefit of all people.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the chief executive of the organization, explained the initiative to him.

The council looks for ways to spread the benefits of the capitalist system to everyone, not just the few. That is why the pope told them about the situation of the poor.


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Rising levels of poverty on a global scale bear witness to the prevalence of inequality, rather than a harmonious integration of persons and nations. An economic system that is fair, trustworthy and capable of addressing the most profound challenges facing humanity and our planet is urgently needed.

According to Pope Francis, “a healthy economic system cannot be based on short-term profit at the expense of long-term productive, sustainable and socially responsible development and investment.”


POPE FRANCIS

Authentic development cannot be restricted to economic growth alone, but must foster the growth of each person and of the whole person.
An economic system detached from ethical concerns does not bring about a more just social order, but leads instead to a “throw away” culture of consumption and waste.

Before concluding, the pope thanked them for their work to promote a more humane and fair economy that leaves no one behind.


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Pope visits Jesuit headquarters

The General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome. 

 
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The Vatican Press Office has said that Pope Francis paid a private visit to the General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome on Sunday.

Pope Francis paid a private visit to the worldwide headquarters of the Jesuits in Rome on Sunday, July 7.

Responding to questions from journalists, the “ad interim” Director of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, released a statement on Monday, confirming the visit.

“I can confirm that yesterday the Holy Father went for a private visit to the General Curia of the Jesuits where he dined with the Superior General, Father Arturo Sosa, and with his brothers of the Society of Jesus.”

He explained that the Jesuit Pontiff has already privately visited the General Curia and his brother Jesuits in past years in the run-up to the July 31 Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Society of Jesus along with six companions in the 16th century.


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As Mormons open Rome temple, doctrinal hiccups with Vatican endure

Elise Harris

Feb 13, 2019

SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

The angel Moroni statue, silhouetted against a cloud-covered sky, sits atop the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. (Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer.)

ROME - Last month Rome became home to Italy’s first Mormon temple, which sits just a few blocks from the Vatican. Yet while the Mormons say they’re planning to partner with the Catholic Church on several social initiatives, what they aren’t saying out loud is that technically speaking, the Vatican doesn’t even recognize the Church of Latter-Day Saints as Christian.

The 40,000-square-foot building, made of marble and granite, opened Jan. 14 and is located near the Porta di Roma shopping mall, just a few miles from St. Peter’s Basilica.

Complete with crystal chandeliers, stained-glass windows, solar panels and 24-karat gold, the temple is the 162nd Mormon temple in the world, and the 12th in Europe. It’s currently offering free tours to visitors - however, after a dedication ceremony in March, which will take place over several days, it will be open only to members of the Mormon faith.

Officially called the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,” the Mormon church was founded by an American named Joseph Smith in New York in 1830, after Smith claimed to have received a series of visions from God which, among other things, revealed the location of golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon.

Mormon temples are generally used for either baptisms or marriages. With some 16 million Mormons worldwide, roughly 500,000 live in Europe, and, of those, around 6,000 are in Italy.