Below is the complete list of Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for the coming year 2025. January: For the right to an education Let us pray for migrants, refugees, and those affected by war ...

COMMENTARY: The pro-life movement won’t achieve its ultimate goals without a strong focus on supporting and strengthening families. ‘Every attempt to protect the life of the unborn must be ...

The Vatican has published a list of papal liturgies that Pope Francis plans to attend for January and February.

During this time, plenary indulgences — spiritual pardons that devout Catholics believe absolve them of temporal punishment for sins — will be granted, with the pope, flanked by the Swiss ...

It has even added three countries to that list ... Encyclical of March 14, 1937 (Mit brennender Sorge), which condemned the religious persecutions within Germany and all racial theories, may at first ...

and the dashing of their hopes following Pope Paul VI’s encyclical letter of 1968 which, among other things, re-affirmed the Catholic stance on contraception. By the time he wrote this book ...

Pope Francis's recent encyclical Dilexit Nos (DN) is unique, at least within his term of office. It deals with deeply spiritual issues, using spiritual terms. One can judge them only by the Spirit, ...

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One of Pope Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility, as seen in his decisions to live in a Vatican guesthouse and carry his own briefcase ...

“Hope,” the autobiography of Pope Francis, hit the shelves of Italian bookstores Tuesday and will be on sale starting Jan. 16 in more than 100 countries. The book marks the first time a pope ...

Pope Francis attended the episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop and vicegerent at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Saturday afternoon. Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari, 48, who ...