Tag: Pope Francis

“The pervasive growth of social media risks replacing dialogue with a welter of monologues, often aggressive in tone”

The pope encouraged young people to swim against society’s current, but without turning into “perpetual victims and conspiracy theorists”

The team, Pope Francis joked, does not consist of cardinals — who range in age from 54 to 97

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