Pope Francis on Friday encouraged diocesan leaders to prioritize awe, evangelization, and silence before mere aesthetics in liturgical celebrations like the Mass. “A celebration that does not ...

Pope Francis on retreat at the Casa Divin Maestro retreat center in Ariccia, Italy, in March 2017. (photo: Vatican Media) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican January 20, 2023 Like the two years’ prior ...

Pope Francis told American seminarians in Rome that they are called to take up the “challenge and task” of the synodal journey — of listening to the Holy Spirit and to one another — as ...

We do not have to be perfect already to live in a way that gives witness to Christ and attracts others to him, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. At his weekly public audience on Jan. 11, Francis ...

Pope Francis is set travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan at the end of the month – a visit the pontiff had earlier been forced to postpone due to health issues.

“Based on what we’ve seen in the first half of January, my impression is that this resistance to Pope Francis is only going to escalate,” said Mike Lewis, a founder of Where Peter ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday privately met Archbishop Georg Ganswein, former Pope Benedict's closest aide, who has rattled the Vatican with a book describing what he says ...

The late Pope Benedict XVI's closest aide has revealed years of tension between the German theologian and his successor Pope Francis in an explosive memoir. Georg Gaenswein, Benedict's personal ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who was a key figure in his recent funeral but who has raised eyebrows with an ...

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Pope Francis received Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun of Hong Kong in private audience at 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, at Santa Marta, the pope’s residence in the Vatican. “It was wonderful. He was so ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday sent his condolences to the victims of a bombing on a Pentecostal church in eastern Congo, an attack claimed by Islamic militants two weeks before the pontiff is due to ...