The Code of Canon law says extraordinary consistories are convened “when particular needs of the church or the treatment of more grave affairs suggest it.”
“I don’t know if it’s a particular devotion to her as a saint, but she represents, for the church, the church’s embrace of immigrants.”
“What Israel wants is the disarmament of Hezbollah, and this goal has not been achieved. A truce would reopen the door to diplomacy.”
