STRASBOURG: Pope Francis launched a blistering attack yesterday on a “haggard” Europe, urging it to reclaim global leadership after years of crisis and to take in migrants before the Mediterranean becomes a “vast cemetery”. During a lightning visit to Strasbourg, the Argentine pontiff used speeches to the European Parliament and Council of Europe to press home the need for urgent economic and social change. It was the first papal visit to the French city since John-Paul II in 1988, but where his predecessor came at the end of the Cold War, Francis faces a more secular and eurosceptic continent riven …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
