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Climate crisis, displacement and solidarity
On 30 March, the Holy See engaged with an important aspect of displacement with the publication of its ‘Pastoral Orientations on Climate Displaced People’. The document, approved by Pope Francis, was produced by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, a Vatican department established by Francis that works on both migration and environmental matters.
The intersection between climate change and human displacement is a still emerging area of concern. Nevertheless, we know that climate change is already a factor in various forms of human mobility, ranging from relatively voluntary migration to compulsory resettlement to temporary or permanent displacement, either internal or international.
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Pope Francis (Photo by STRINGER / various sources / AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
The cardinal, Angelo Becciu, was dismissed from a powerful Vatican job in September, after Francis told him he was accused of syphoning off Vatican charity funds to help his siblings.
But on Thursday, Francis visited Becciu and celebrated Holy Thursday mass in the chapel of his private apartment, the cardinal said in a statement issued to Vatican journalists.
A Vatican source said he could not comment on the pope’s “private engagements,” but added, “a fatherly gesture like this, on a day like Holy Thursday, does not seem strange.”
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Angelo Becciu was dismissed from a powerful Vatican job in September, after Pope Francis told him he was accused of syphoning off Vatican charity funds to help his siblings. AFP pic
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ROME, April 2 ― In a surprise move, Pope Francis yesterday privately celebrated a Holy Week ritual with a cardinal he fired abruptly months ago, in an apparent gesture of reconciliation.
The cardinal, Angelo Becciu, was dismissed from a powerful Vatican job in September, after Francis told him he was accused of syphoning off Vatican charity funds to help his siblings.