Bishop Ordination

Father Pagliarani justified the rejection of the Vatican’s offer of dialogue by citing a lengthy prior history of failed negotiations.

Iraq’s “mosaic” of faiths and cultures “asks to be welcomed and preserved in charity,” the pope said in his homily for episcopal ordination Mass for nuncio.

(OSV News) — “I do not deserve to be an apostle, but by the grace of God that is what I am,” said Bishop Simon Peter Engurait, newly ordained and …