Facing the trauma of conflict requires love and hope, and Caritas has been hard at work sharing this "medicine" with everyone, said the director of Caritas-Spes. The war will not end with just a peace agreement, ...
Wanting to go back to the way things were in the past is not Christian, Pope Francis said. There is a difference between wanting to go back in time and drawing inspiration from one's roots in ...
Pope Francis told older people to use retirement as a time to serve others and to sow the seeds of their wisdom. When people retire, starting the new chapter in life requires "a creative attention, a ...
Pope Francis' reform of the Roman Curia underlines the importance of bishops' conferences, particularly in fostering communion among the bishops themselves and with the pope, a bishop said. The missionary nature and mandate of the church ...
Pope Francis said he is convinced God is calling his peers -- older Catholics -- to become "artisans of the revolution of tenderness." Through their gifts, wisdom, relationships and power of prayer, "together we can set ...
Christians must listen to God's word, go where Christ goes, seek those who are lost and reach out to their neighbors, Pope Francis said. "Do I let Jesus love me, and by allowing him to love ...
The Christian vocation is for all members of the church to work together and show that one human family united in love is not a utopia but is the reason God created humanity, Pope Francis ...
Pope Francis will have therapeutic injections to try to alleviate the pain in his right knee, he told an Italian newspaper. "I have a torn ligament; I will have a procedure with injections and we will ...
Warning that the Russian Orthodox patriarch should not "turn himself into Putin's altar boy," Pope Francis also said he would like to go to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the ...
Pope Francis has given his safeguarding commission a "very clear" mandate to encourage and supervise the world's bishops' conferences in establishing survivor support centers and services, said Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley of Boston, president of ...
