On April 20, Pope Francis received in audi-ence the members of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its foundation. The Pope encouraged them to build together the civili-zation of encounter.
“The Church jour-neys through history, alongside the women and men of every time, and does not belong to any particular culture, but rather wishes to enliven, with the meek and courageous testi-mony of the Gospel, the heart of every cul-ture, so as to build to-gether the civilization of encounter. Instead, the temptations of self-absorbed individualism and the ideological affirmation of one’s own point of view fuel the incivility of con-frontation:” the Pope said.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
The executive committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) meeting in Madrid this week, issued an official statement regarding the leaks
