"Thank you for your witness," Pope Francis told retired Australian Cardinal George Pell as the two sat down for a private meeting Oct. 12, six months after the High Court of Australia overturned the cardinal's ...
God loves and has prepared a banquet for everyone -- "the just and sinners, the good and the bad, the intelligent and the uneducated" -- and every Christian is called to go out to the ...
On Satuday, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical in Assisi, Italy. If Laudato Si', Pope Francis' second encyclical, released in 2015, was a papal plea to care for our common home, then Fratelli Tutti (unofficially ...
The world will not overcome the current crisis if only big businesses, financial institutions and the powerful have a voice, Pope Francis said. "Everyone must be listened to. Everyone -- those on the top, those on ...
Saying "thank you" to God is a beautiful prayer, Pope Francis told a group of children and teenagers with autism. "God likes that way of praying," he said Sept. 21 during a brief audience with youngsters ...
In September of 2015, Pope Francis made his first — and, so far, only — apostolic trip to the United States. The visit consisted of many of the usual features of previous papal visitations: formal ...
Reflecting on Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. in 2015, Russ Shaw writes, “maybe it’s time to ask this question: Did he come five years too soon?” Five years after the historic visit, few if ...
With so much conflict, violence and war, the world needs people who are specially prepared to bring Gospel values to social, political and economic situations, Pope Francis said. Multidisciplinary research and study for building up a ...
The exploitation and plundering of the Earth's resources at the expense of the poor and vulnerable cry out for justice and the forgiveness of debts, Pope Francis said. In his message for the World Day of ...
The central focus of a Christian's life and all he or she does to help others must be Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said. "Christian charity is not simple philanthropy but, on the one hand, it is ...
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