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Knee pain has forced the 85-year-old pope to curtail his activities in recent weeks.
The pope commissioned the first Missionaries of Mercy in 2016.
While meeting with members of the Trinitarian order on Monday, Pope Francis referred to his knee ailment, which kept him from standing to greet all of them.
“There are no major risks” to Pope Francis’ safety in South Sudan, Bishop Christian Carlassare said.
Pope Francis explained three ways that God's mercy should bring about peace in the lives of Christians.
Pope Francis on Sunday renewed his call for a truce in Ukraine, saying "the attack must be stopped."
Jesus’ merciful words to a doubting St. Thomas reminds us that the Lord does not expect us to be “perfect Christians,” Pope Francis said in his Regina Caeli reflection on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Under Pope Francis’ reform of the Roman Curia, the internal structure of the CDF has been reorganized into two sections.
The pope met with young people participating in a missionary youth conference.
The pope offered a reflection on "Our Lady of Tears."
Pope Francis’ agenda was cleared on Friday for needed medical checkups, a Vatican spokesperson said. The 85-year-old pontiff has been suffering from pain in his right knee, causing him to take smaller roles in some Vatican liturgies and to remain seated more often.
Pope Francis has said that Catholic education and formation are more important than ever in “an age awash in information often transmitted without wisdom or critical sense.”
It was the first Wednesday audience in St. Peter's Square since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The youth pilgrimage was organized in an effort to reach out to young people whose lives were upended during the past two years of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fear is like a tomb that can “bury us,” Pope Francis said Monday, but the Risen Lord’s words to the women who were the first to announce his resurrection apply to us, as well: “Be not afraid.”
“Brothers and sisters, let us allow the peace of Christ to enter our lives, our homes, our countries,” Pope Francis said.
An estimated 50,000 people were in St. Peter's Square for the pope's Easter Sunday Mass.
Pope Francis did not preside over the Easter Vigil Mass, but he delivered the homily and baptized seven people.
‘War is everywhere,’ he told interviewer Lorena Bianchetti.
‘The priest with a functionalist mindset has his own nourishment, which is his ego,’ he said.