The decade-long process of updating the laws of Vatican City State is part of the Vatican’s support for international commitments to protect people and safeguard vulnerable groups who are “frequently the victims of new, odious forms of illegality”, Pope Francis has said.
decade-long process of updating the laws of Vatican City State is part of the Vatican’s support for international commitments to protect people and safeguard vulnerable groups who are “frequently the victims of new, odious forms of illegality”, Pope Francis has said.
While the world knows Nagasaki as the site of a US atomic bomb blast, for the Catholic Church it is also the site of one of the fiercest campaigns of anti-Christian persecution.
Pope Francis was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI on March 13 by the conclave of cardinals.