Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, celebrated Mass on December 13 for participants in the Jubilee of Italian Diplomacy, days after his visit to an Islamist insurgency hotspot in Mozambique.
Cardinal Parolin spoke of a “tragic reality” of killing, “often by decapitation”—a tragedy that has “a fundamentally religious root” and is “almost completely ignored at the international level.”