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Pope Francis gave the bishops a card with a meditation called ‘The Beatitudes of the Bishop.’
Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Anatole Milandou from the pastoral care of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo and appointed his successor.
Two young people joined the pope as he delivered his Angelus address.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the feast of Christ the King.
The papal team includes Swiss Guards and migrants.
The pope said that justice and peace could be built only through ‘two paths.’
The pope’s new catechetical cycle is devoted to Jesus’ foster father.
‘The number of people forced to flee their homelands continues to grow,’ the pope said.
Secular Franciscan Order is holding its general chapter in Rome.
When one is faced with an important difficult decision, Pope Francis’ advice is to imagine standing before Christ at the “threshold of eternity” because that is what ultimately matters.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of 2,000 people living in poverty and the volunteers who assist them.
“We need journalists who are willing to ‘wear out the soles of their shoes,’ to get out of the newsroom, to walk around the city, to meet people, to assess the situations in which we live in our time,” Pope Francis said.
The pope was marking the UN agency’s 75th anniversary.
The pope met with a group of more than 500 poor people from across Europe.
The pope urged Catholics to keep a copy of the prayer with them.
The escalating violence in Ethiopia is cause for concern for Pope Francis who has also expressed his spiritual solidarity with the victims of the explosion in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.
Pope Francis has transferred the Bishop who has been serving as Local Ordinary of Senegal’s Ziguinchor Diocese to the Episcopal See of Tambacounda.
The bishops are currently meeting in Lourdes.
The pope celebrated Mass at a Catholic university hospital in Rome.
The pope inaugurated a new art gallery at the Vatican Library.