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Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity”.

This summer, bishops in Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio have held news conferences on the encyclical, urging political leaders to take up the pope’s call for bold leadership and pledging to reduce carbon emissions or water and power usage in their own dioceses. John Gehring,...

This summer, bishops in Iowa, Illinois and Ohio have held news conferences on the encyclical, urging political leaders to take up the pope’s call for bold leadership and pledging to reduce carbon emissions or water and power usage in their own dioceses.

Restrictions on volume will also ease. “We’re the can-do city in the United States of America”.

Pope Francis has declared that divorced Catholics who remarry deserve better treatment from the church, warning pastors against treating these couples as if they were excommunicated.

Pope Francis has once again given the Catholic Church a welcoming face, rather than stern judgmental disapproval, saying divorced and remarried Catholics are “not by any means excommunicated” and that the Church should display “the heart of a mother”.

Still in The New York Times, a picture illustrated how a bell was tolled at 8:15 (local time) followed by a minute of silence to mourn for the moment that the city was incinerated by an atomic bomb.

Pope FrancisDivorced people who have remarried “are still part of the Church” and should not be treated as if they have been excommunicated or cast out, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.

Noting that Jesus said that those who come to Him will never hunger, Francis said that Christ’s words on the Bread of Life refer especially to the Eucharist, “the greatest gift that satisfies the soul and the body”.

Bell, an African-American, told 60 fellow mayors from around the world Tuesday: “At the time of my birth, I was born into a society in Birmingham, Alabama, that existed as a close cousin of slavery called segregation”.

We want to live with dignity.

“Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humanity today, and it was a remarkable honour to meet with Pope Francis to discuss how cities and the global community can and must act to drastically reduce climate pollution”.

The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. “This type of honest, proactive collaboration will help create more peaceful, prosperous and resilient communities around the world“.

Twenty-five delegates of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, or CONAIE, attended an invitation-only gathering Tuesday evening that included business leaders, and cultural and sports figures.

Francis started his last full day in Ecuador by saying an open-air Mass for almost a million people on the grounds of a former airport in the capital, Quito.