The Editorial Director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, reflects on the late Pope Francis’ emphasis on mercy, which became a defining theme of his 12-year-long pontificate.Pope Francis has ...

Pope Francis dedicated 12-year papacy to bringing awareness to environmental change and equality in the Catholic Church. He made reforms to the Vatican Bank and showed mercy to sinners.

Pope Francis true legacy will be ... Francis dedicated a special jubilee to teaching the mindset—he labeled 2016 “the Year of Mercy”—and in the same year Amoris Laetitia showed how to put ...

As I sat among the more than 200,000 people who came to Rome to grieve the loss and celebrate the life of Pope Francis, one word kept running through my mind − mercy. I thought of the pope’s ...

When Pope Francis opens the Holy Door at St. Peter’s basilica on Dec. 8, it will mark the start of the church’s jubilee Year of Mercy. Francis will be the first to cross the threshold, a ...

Pope Francis was not a perfect man; no great soul ever is. Yet he was authentic, a man who lived from the core of his convictions. He saw God’s mercy as something to lavish generously, not to ...

In a heartfelt address Monday, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek of the Catholic Diocese of Amarillo paid tribute to Pope Francis following the pontiff’s death, reflecting on his legacy of mercy, humility ...

As I sat among the more than 200,000 people who came to Rome to grieve the loss and celebrate the life of Pope Francis, one word kept running through my mind − mercy. I thought of the pope’s ...

And as we remember this pope, he’s a pope of mercy.” Father Hans Kreuwels reflects on Pope Francis at St. Peter‘s Square following the pontiff’s death, Monday, April 21, 2025. Credit ...

“Back in the Jubilee year of 2000, 25 years ago, Pope John Paul II at that time established this feast of the Divine Mercy, which was actually requested by Jesus himself through the diary of St ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Capuchin friar known for his tireless ministry in the confessional and his role as a spiritual model for Pope Francis, died on June 30 in Buenos Aires at the age of 98.