Nations and individuals have a duty to enact policies that mitigate global warming, said a Vatican-sponsored working group.
The fallout following the forced retirement of Australian Bishop William Morris has grown more caustic in recent days.
Reports continue to emerge of hundreds of migrants and refugees missing and presumed drowned in the waters off Libya.
“John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict said on May 1.
Spring storms of historic intensity ravaged communities broadly throughout the South creating destruction in “unheard of proportions.”