Over three million people in Colombia have been dislocated by civil war and violence related to drug trafficking.
The embargo “undeniably has a negative influence on the life of the people,” Archbishop Celli told Vatican Radio Nov. 13.
The CDF is stressing that the Vatican overture was not an initiative of the Holy See but a response to requests from Anglicans who have broken with their church.
An American deacon described at a press conference in London how he was suddenly cured from a severe spinal condition after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman.
“We are all aware of the special anxieties which surround our women religious these days," Cardinal Roger M. Mahony wrote.