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Cardinal Parolin, in Burundi, appeals for focus on common good
August 19, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, celebrated Mass at Burundi’s national Marian shrine after dedicating a monument to Archbishop Michael Courtney, the apostolic nuncio murdered in 2003.
During the Mass, Cardinal Parolin issued an “appeal to overcome personal interests, so that people around the world may focus on serving the common good,” according to Vatican News’s summary of his remarks. “Only then can those living in war zones, who continue to suffer and endure deprivation, once again begin to hope for life marked by dignity and safety.”
Cardinal Parolin began a six-day trip to the southeastern African nation on August 12.
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