Eduard Habsburg is a writer and diplomat who has served since 2015 as ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta.

Lawyers for the family of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 pressed Italian prosecutors and the Vatican on Wednesday for more details regarding human bone fragments found in an annex of the Holy See's embassy in Rome.

A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994.

The pope urged people "to listen, to be a neighbor, to bear witness.”

“May the Most High receive the dead in his peace, comfort their families and sustain the wounded,” he prayed as he addressed thousands of pilgrims from many countries gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Oct. 28.

The text is intended as a guideline to be adapted at the national and local level in different countries.