Pope Leo XIV urged thousands of young Europeans gathered in Assisi to move beyond comfort and encounter Christ in the poor and marginalized, calling them to become a new generation of saints who transform the world through the Gospel.
Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of October, calling on everyone to pray that all Christians might be missionary disciples and open to the demands of the Church’s evangelizing mission.
Pope Francis has chosen ‘Listen’ as the theme for the 2022 World Day of Communications. Announcing the theme on September 29, the Feast of the Archangels, the Vatican said, “In the search for truth, Catholic communicators must learn how to listen above all else.”
Pope Francis urged young climate activists to recognize that “technical and political solutions are not enough” to foster harmony between people and the environment.
Pope Francis has chosen the single word, “Listen!” as the theme for the 56th World Communications Day, which will be celebrated in 2022. Announcing next year’s theme, the Holy See says, “Pope Francis is asking the world to listen again.”
Pope Francis celebrated Mass with the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe and encouraged bishops to reflect on three words as they celebrate their golden jubilee: reflect, rebuild and see.
The Governorate of Vatican City State issues a decree stipulating added measures to be taken as part of efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 within Vatican City State.
Pope Francis on Wednesday said abortion is “murder” and urged priests and bishops, especially in the United States, to be pastoral rather than political when faced with the question of who can receive Communion.
Pope Francis has appointed Father Albino Barrera, a Filipino Dominican theologian and economist, as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Pope Francis told Slovakia’s Catholics on Monday that the Church should respond to secularization with the “creativity of the Gospel,” not “a defensive Catholicism.”
Pope Francis encouraged Catholics at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest to spend more time in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to become more like Christ.
Pope Francis encouraged families to be united in prayer, open to life, and charitable to the poor in a message ahead of the 2022 World Meeting of Families in Rome.
“The true joy that comes from the Lord always gives space to the voices of the forgotten, so that together with them we can build a better future,” Pope Francis said in the message published Sept. 8.
The Vatican released Tuesday a preparatory document and handbook for the 2023 synod on synodality to be reviewed by all Catholic dioceses in the world over the next six months.
“Let us reflect on how the way we eat, consume, travel, or the way we use water, energy, plastics, and many other material goods, is often harmful to the earth.”
