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The new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church reflected last week on the power of faith amid fear during the homily at his installation Mass last week, and outlined several “principal features” for the future the Baghdad-based Eastern Catholic Chaldean Church.

The May 29 installation of Patriarch Paul III Nona of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Addressing the congregation gathered at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baghdad, Iraq on May 29 for his installation Mass, Patriarch Paul III Nona aimed to offer an encouraging homily, after months of difficulty for the Chaldean Catholic Church, including the unexpected March 10 resignation of his predecessor, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako.

“‘Do not be afraid; only believe,’ these words spoken by the Lord, were not merely a word of emotional comfort,” Paul III began his homily, “it was a radical call to an inner transformation: from the logic of fear to the logic of faith.”

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Nona was elected in April to lead more than 600,000 Catholics belonging to the Eastern Catholic Chaldean Church.

He had served previously as Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, from which he was forced in 2014 into exile as ISIS took control of the area and Christians fled or were killed, leaving no flock in his archdiocese. He

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