Pope: Church’s social teaching needed to combat greed and injustice
By Junno Arocho Esteves – With many people around the world facing exclusion and inequality, the social teaching of the Catholic Church can inspire new economic systems...
Category: Pope Francis
Our Head of Church, Pope Francis has an uncanny way of speaking in a direct, Christ-centered way. We feature his papal audiences, Angelus talks, homilies and interviews.
Pope calls for an end to forcing migrants back to unsafe countries
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis denounced the “inhuman violence” waged against migrants, refugees and other displaced peoples in Libya, and called for an end to sending people...
Pope Francis asks religious sisters to pray for him: ‘It is not easy to be the pope’
Pope Francis paid a visit to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians on Friday and asked the religious sisters to pray for him as they live...
Pope: Jesus Can’t Wait to Pour Out his Grace and Joy into Our Hearts
In his Angelus address, the pope reflected on the Gospel account of Jesus restoring sight to Bartimaeus, a blind man begging by the roadside. “His blindness was...
Pope: Freedom Comes from Serving Others
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Pope Francis had a special guest help him illustrate the meaning of Christian freedom: a young boy wandered onto the stage during...
Pope: Catholic social teaching gives Gospel concrete form
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis said he knows “it often annoys people” when he promotes Catholic teaching on social issues like poverty, migration and ecology, but...
Pope shares survivor’s letter pleading for clergy to face truth of abuse
By Carol Glatz – An adult survivor of abuse by a priest appealed to the world’s seminarians to become good priests and to make sure the “bitter truth”...
Pope Francis: To Seek Status over Service is a Spiritual Illness
Do good from a spirit of service, not from a desire for personal glory, Pope Francis said at his Angelus. In his message before the Angelus prayer...
President Biden and Pope Francis Scheduled to Meet October 29
By Carol Zimmermann – President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis on October 29, the day before the G20...
Pope: Church Must Respect Other Cultures, Not Impose Itself
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Christian freedom means respecting other cultures and traditions rather than finding ways to impose “one’s own model of life as though it...
Pope: Faith is Not a Bargaining Chip with God
By Carol Glatz – People should ask themselves whether their faith has become a “commercial relationship” with God or if it is a relationship built on freedom, love...
Pope Opens Synod Process With Mass
By Carol Glatz – A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis...
