‘We wanted to create an opportunity … to encounter Jesus in the Eucharist’
St. Rose parishioners participate in pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Young people play in a fountain in Moscow June 16, 2020. Russian clergy and lay Catholics were "caught by surprise" by Pope Francis' remarks in a video call Aug. 25, 2023, to a youth gathering in St. Petersburg praising the country's past empire and urging young people to "never give up this heritage." Ukrainians were even more surprised as the papal remarks caused pain and concern in the country fighting the Russian invasion. (OSV News photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters)
After Russia remarks stir outrage, Vatican says pope never intended to ‘glorify imperialist logic’
‘We fear that those words are understood by some as an encouragement of precisely this nationalism and imperialism’
