If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. Pope Francis, June 5, 2013, general audience, St. Peter’s Square ...

Key quotes from Pope Francis's papacy.Thumbs Down - Environment - "The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth" - from his June 2015 encyclical on the ...

Reported Vatican leak undermines Pope Francis and inflames debate over Latin Mass - The leak, if confirmed, could place pressure on Pope Leo to change the traditional Catholic ceremony ...

Healthcare workers are called to heal others. Francis asked us to think about healing holistically -- not only to treat disease, but also to love our patients and to accept their love in return.

Chicago-native Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope on May 8, following Pope Francis’ death on April 21. The 69-year-old took the papal name Leo XIV. Since then, Catholics from ...

Pope Francis said, “Leadership is service, not power.” Instead of moving into the opulent papal apartments, Pope Francis chose a simple guesthouse. This wasn’t a PR stunt; it was a statement.

The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a wide-ranging interview in January 2021. On April ...

The first pope, Saint Peter, was born in the region known as present-day Israel. Around the year 97, Pope Saint Evaristus, also from the Middle East, took his place as the human head of the Church.

Pope Francis is given a San Lorenzo’s shirt as he greets the faithful prior to his first ‘Urbi et Orbi’ blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica during Easter Mass on March 31, 2013.