audience that Leo XIV granted on March 13 to Monsignor Karel Orlita and Father Francesco Bamonte Photo: Vatican Media

Two years after October 7: interview with the Vatican Secretary of State on Hamas terrorism and the massacre in Gaza

The Holy See Secretary of State speaks to Vatican Media on the second anniversary of Hamas’s “inhuman” attack on Israel, which unleashed the destruction of the Gaza Strip. He says that what is happening in Gaza is “inhuman”, and that he’s struck by the turnout at peace marches. He adds that antisemitism is a cancer that must be eradicated.

«Adoption Is Not a ‘Plan B’, It’s a True Vocation»: Young Influencers Who Bet on Adoption

We are experiencing this time as a «pregnancy of the heart,» a little longer than usual. Furthermore, we don’t know if it will be a boy or a girl, a baby or an older child, what features it will have… and this allows us to wait without labelling, loving without limits. In this process, we also consciously prepare for the arrival and, above all, we care for and strengthen our marriage, because it will be the pillar of the family that God entrusts to us.