Pope Francis

Pope at Angelus: Christians choose fidelity to Gospel over hypocrisy

Christians must not be hypocrites, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis joins prayers for victims of bloody weekend in U.S.

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 29 dead and dozens injured in Texas and Ohio Aug. 3 and 4.

After the prayer called the Angelus in St Peter's Square on Aug. 4, the pope said he wanted to convey his spiritual closeness to the victims, the wounded and the families affected by the attacks. He also included those who died a weekend earlier during a shooting at a festival in Gilroy, California.

"I am spiritually close to the victims of the episodes of violence that these days have bloodied Texas, California and Ohio, in the United States, affecting defenseless people," he said.
Pope: Prostitution is 'disgusting vice' that tortures defenseless women

VATICAN CITY – Prostitution is a horrendous crime that reduces vulnerable women to tortured slaves who are at the mercy of their clients, Pope Francis said.
Pope writes Syrian president, urging him to protect civilians, seek peace

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to put an end to his country's eight-year-long conflict and seek reconciliation for the good of the nation and its vulnerable people.
Love of God, love of neighbor are tied together, Pope says

VATICAN CITY – Praying that Catholics would understand and act on "the inseparable bond" between love of God and love of neighbor, Pope Francis again appealed for a solution to the crisis in Venezuela.
Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, Pope says

VATICAN CITY – Human beings are called to praise God for his gift of creation, not be predators out to plunder the earth and all it contains, Pope Francis said.

In a message sent July 8 to participants of an Italian conference on the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon, the Pope said the current situation in the South American rainforest "is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet."
Receive Communion every time as if it were the first time, Pope says

VATICAN CITY – Every time a Catholic receives Communion, it should be like his or her first Communion, Pope Francis said.
Migrants are people, not just a social issue, Pope says at Mass

VATICAN CITY – Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, Pope Francis said.
World becoming more elitist, cruel toward excluded, Pope says

VATICAN CITY – The excluded, especially migrants and refugees, are the ones who ultimately pay the price for humanity's greed, Pope Francis said.
Ecumenical goal is unity, not leveling differences, Pope says

VATICAN CITY – At the end of Mass on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis and Orthodox Archbishop Job of Telmessos walked down the stairs under the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica and prayed together at the apostle's tomb.

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