Child and Youth Protection

Pope issues updated 'Vos Estis' text for handling abuse cases

Pope Francis has updated and made definitive the provisions in "Vos Estis Lux Mundi" (You are the light of the world), his 2019 document setting out procedures for...

Sacraments

Confession is 'encounter of love' that fights evil, pope tells priests

Pope Francis, who has said he goes to confession every two weeks, meets during Lent with priests and those about to be ordained at the end of a Vatican-sponsored course...

AI and the meaning of life: Tech industry turns to religious leaders

A priest who grew up in Mountain View, California, home to Google, talks to CNS about artificial intelligence and how some of the people behind it are turning to the...

Evangelization

Pope: Without power of Holy Spirit, evangelization is empty advertising

Continuing his series of audience talks about evangelization, Pope Francis insisted that unless one has a personal relationship with Christ and is open to the promptings...

Migrants, Refugees & Travelers

Welcoming migrants, refugees is first step toward peace, pope says

Pope Francis met March 18 with hundreds of migrants and refugees who have been welcomed to Italy and other European countries through a program of "humanitarian corridors...

Pope Francis

A heart filled with scorn, vain presumption is a path to perdition, pope says

Pope Francis led a penance service in a Rome parish to mark the start of the worldwide celebration of "24 Hours for the Lord." He said, "The Lord comes to us when we step...

Synod on Synodality

Commission focuses on ensuring synod will be prayerful experience

Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville and six other people from various countries have been appointed to the preparatory commission for the general assembly of the Synod...

Synod on Synodality

Synod vigil to be expression of 'ecumenism of solidarity,' pastor says

Pope Francis met in mid-March with the prior of the Taizé Community and Catholic and Protestant representatives planning the ecumenical prayer vigil that will precede the...

Evangelization

To be an apostle is to serve, not move up church's hierarchy, pope says

Continuing his general audience series of talks about evangelization, Pope Francis looked at what it means to say the church is "apostolic" and what it means to be an...

Evangelization

Help those who are 'thirsty' for closeness, attention, Gospel, pope says

The Gospel story of the Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well is a story of Jesus' love and the love he wants his followers to share, Pope Francis said when he...