Vatican issues message for World Fisheries Day (Vatican Press Office)

“I would like to invite governments, international organizations, fisheries, faith-based organizations, and in a particular way Catholic institutions such as Stella Maris and Caritas, to join hands in effectively implementing the existing conventions [i.e, treaties] and legislation and in cooperating to find innovative solutions for these inter-connected problems faced by the fishing world in an effort to protect ‘our common home,’” Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, wrote in his message for World Fisheries Day.