The Pope has in effect kept his message of “embracing the migrant” in the era of “walls and barbed wire” for migrants. Indeed, Poland’s harsh treatment of migrants at the border puts it at odds with the Catholic Church. He urged the world to face the migrant crisis with respect towards human rights and condemned European nations for not practising the values they promote abroad.
He said this while speaking at a Church celebration in Kottayam district's Kuruvilangadu, which comes under his diocese.
However hours after a strong reply by the Church on Wednesday, the government announced that the Prime Minister would not meet the Pope nor visit Vatican City.
With conservation measures to save the heritage structure conspicuous in absence, the 150-year-old Church, popularly called Lal Girja in the district headquarters town, is currently facing the threat of being lost forever.
Those who created/encouraged the mindset that to even talk about sexual misconduct would invite the proverbial “fires of Hell” will now have to be wary ~ the principle of accountability has been established, and it will progressively extend itself into all spheres of the Church’s functioning.
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