Tag: Pope Francis

The Vatican tribunal met this week in the ongoing trial related to the Secretariat of State’s purchase of a London investment property

St. Joseph “reminds each of us to value what others discard. In this sense, he is truly a master of the essential"

The pope said the commissions performed the vital tasks of raising awareness of the Church’s social doctrine and defending human dignity

"All too often you come up against a desert of humanity, with an indifference that ... that dries up relations between people”

The pope said that the Secular Franciscan vocation was “born of the universal call to holiness”

Pope Francis emphasized the importance of making “concrete gestures” and drawing close to the poor to “sow hope”

The pope underlined the importance of encountering the poor face to face and learning from their witness to hope

The pope urged journalists to escape “from the tyranny of always being online,” to encounter and communicate reality

The pope recommended that Catholics keep a copy on them of the “beautiful prayer that the Church recites on Pentecost”

Pope Francis said the attitude of the scribes in the Gospel endures in the form of clericalism, which he described as “being above the poor"