abiendo llegado a conocer a Jesús a través de las Escrituras y la Eucaristía, los católicos están llamados a compartir con los demás la esperanza y la alegría que provienen de la fe y que perduran incluso cuando la vida se vuelve difícil, dijo el Papa Francisco.

During a private audience with Pope Francis, Whoopi Goldberg presented him with a bag full of film merchandise from her 1992 comedy film “Sister Act.”

Vatican will receive 12 priests who had been detained in Nicaragua. The release of the priests and their expatriation to Rome came following “fruitful talks with the Holy See.”

Fraternal delegates–representatives from other Christian communities–are listening and weighing in on discussions about the future of the Catholic Church at the Synod of Bishops.

Whenever I see people working in service jobs such as cooking in cafeterias, cleaning houses, mowing lawns, working in construction, doing janitorial work, and other work of this kind, I am often left to wonder, are they like my brother?

“In these hours of anguish,” members of the synod unite with Pope Francis in praying for peace in every nation of the Middle East and in every country at war.

Finding better ways to live “like Jesus did” — reaching out, welcoming, healing and including others — was the focus of a small group discussion at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

The Catholic Church is called to be an instrument of communion with God and unity among all people, but it requires grace and “learning to ‘bear with’ reality, gently, generously, lovingly and courageously for the peace and salvation of the whole world,” a theologian told the assembly of the Synod of Bishops.