World Day of the Sick was started in 1992 by Pope John Paul II to encourage prayers for those who are sick and for their ...

According to a statement from the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, the Holy Father wanted to highlight the hope ...

The World Day for Consecrated Life, celebrated annually on Feb. 2, takes on special significance this year as the Church looks to a Jubilee of Consecrated Life. In a virtual meeting, Pope Francis ...

Today, the feast day of the Presentation in the Temple, Francis expressed closeness to bishops to encourage “young couples not to be afraid of bringing children into the world.” Tomorrow the ...

Yes, because in Jesus dwells the fullness of God, of His Love”, said Pope Francis during the Sunday Angelus prayer with the pilgrims and believers gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the Feast of the ...

Be messengers and builders of hope” for “a new evangelizing season in the Church, which is sent to revive hope in a world over which dark shadows loom;” “be harbingers of a new humanity in a world ...

Pope Francis on Thursday released his message for World Mission Day 2025, encouraging all Catholics ... “In following Christ the Lord, Christians are called to hand on the good news by sharing ...

“If I consider what is the greatest gift that I desire from the Lord ... way on the second day of balloting during the March 2013 conclave that elected him pope. Francis reveals that he ...

Hope, however, draws a line from the childhood events and encounters that forged Pope Francis’ thinking to the current day. Pope Francis ... who recited the Lord’s Prayer every night ...