The European bishops were careful to note that their expression of solidarity was extended to Ukrainians “who have been suffering from Russia’s unjustifiable full-scale invasion for more than three years.”

Pope Francis experienced another setback today with “two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency” caused by “a significant accumulation of mucus in the lungs.”

“Endorsing utilitarian deregulation and global neoliberalism means imposing the law of the strongest as the only rule; and it is a law that dehumanizes,” the pope wrote in a letter to members of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

The Trump administration “immediately terminated” its contract with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee resettlement, effective Feb. 27, according to letters issued by the U.S. State Department a day earlier.

At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance said he wasn’t there to litigate “about who’s right and who’s wrong,” and credited Francis as one who “cares about the flock of Christians under his under his leadership.”

"St. Thomas Aquinas says that all of the works of God recorded in the Old Testament and everything that pertains to Christ in the New Testament are contained in the Psalter in the form of praise," wrote the theologian Lawrence S. Cunningham in this 1997 article on praying with the Psalms.

“Basically Haiti is a house on fire, and you can’t push people back into a burning house,” Archbishop Wenski said. “We have to deal with the fire and create conditions for people to go back home.”

The Vatican strongly cautioned against publishing “news” that would harm the reputation of an individual, especially someone who is deceased, when it comes to priests accused of abuse and not found guilty in civil or canonical procedures.

“Throughout the day, he alternated between high-flow oxygen therapy and a Ventimask,” today’s medical report said. A Vatican source described this change as an improvement.

In Part I of this exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, the Vatican’s foreign minister says speculation about the pope’s resignation is “at this time, not appropriate, and it’s certainly not in the cards.”