Pope Francis

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.

Pope Francis said that silent prayer with the Gospel is the “secret to spiritual health.”

“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.”

Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of September, and invites us to pray that everyone might make choices which promote a simple and sustainable lifestyle.

Complaining and blaming others is a waste of time; the way to defeat evil is to conquer it first within our own hearts, Pope Francis said Sunday.

Pope Francis greets a delegation from the International Catholic Legislators Network and urges them to help create a more sustainable future while putting technology at the service of the common good.

Pope Francis on Thursday named Italian economist and Catholic religious sister Alessandra Smerilli as secretary of the Vatican’s social development office on an interim basis.

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that hypocrisy within the Church is “particularly detestable.”

Pope Francis urged Catholics not to seek God in “dreams and in images of grandeur and power,” but in the humanity of Jesus

Pope Francis this week called for responsibility to help each other during the pandemic and even after when everyone would start rebuilding lives.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that Catholics must observe the commandments with the knowledge that justification comes from Jesus Christ.

In a video co-produced with the Ad Council, Pope Francis urges people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, calling it an act of love toward others.

The specific vocation of the Church is evangelization, which isn’t proselytism, no. Its vocation is evangelization; even more, the Church’s identity is evangelization.

Speaking at the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on August 3, the pope said that there was no room for compromise regarding the Gospel

In a message to the Medjugorje Youth Festival on Monday, Pope Francis told young Catholics that Christ’s loving gaze can free them from attraction to idols.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that God wants us to move “beyond the logic of interest and calculation” and enter into a loving relationship with Him.

Pope Francis described world hunger on Monday as “a crime that violates basic human rights.”

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has issued on July 22 a statement supporting Pope Francis’ motu proprio “Traditionis custodes (Guardians of the tradition)” that restricts the celebration of Traditional Latin Masses.

Pope Francis issued a motu proprio on Friday restricting Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.