The Argentine pontiff, 85, has long been outspoken in his calls for support and understanding for migrants and asylum seekers. He said today: ‘I feel very close to the suffering of those families’.
The head of the Catholic Church, 85, recently expressed concern over global birth rates and suggested pets are ‘taking the place of children’ while branding it ‘a form of selfishness’.
Amid a record-setting rise in COVID-19 cases in Italy this week, only a few thousand people flocked to a rain-soaked St. Peter’s Square for Francis’ annual ‘Urbi et Orbi’ Christmas address.
The pope, 84, warned the bloc not to ‘take the path of ideological colonisation’ as he returned from Greece after a four-day trip (pictured on the papal plane).
After a day of big international diplomacy, tackling climate change and supply chains, Biden came close to tears as he talked about meeting Pope Francis in the days after his son’s death.
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