Pope’s Lenten spiritual exercises to focus partly on John Paul II
VATICAN CITY - This year's week-long Vatican retreat to begin the Lenten season will focus in part on Pope Benedict XVI's predecessor. The 13-19 March...
Pope calls for humble and free journalism that serves truth and goodness
VATICAN CITY — 18 May 2019. Pope Francis is encouraging humble and free journalism that does not indulge in selling the “rotten food of...
Pope: We need to be the living signs of our encounter with Jesus
Pope Francis said that our mission is to meet our contemporaries to make known to them his love.
Strive for unity amid diversity, Pope Francis tells authorities in Thailand
In his first official speech in Thailand Thursday, Pope Francis encouraged the Thai authorities, civil society, and diplomatic corps to strive after unity, even while preserving the diversity which gives their country “soul.”
Pope at Audience: ‘Life is reborn at Christmas’
Pope Francis invites Christians to make a crib in their homes as a preparation for Christmas, noting that in a world in which weapons continue to be manufactured, the crib is “an artisanal image of peace.”
Personal conversion needed to confront Satan’s lies, pope says in Lent message
There is an urgent need for personal conversion, without which the temptations of Satan, and the presence of evil, create a “hell here on earth,” Pope Francis said Monday in his 2020 Lenten message.