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At the opening festival, with some 4,500 people in the Vatican audience hall, Pope Francis said he wanted the church to be a “good Samaritan that draws near to you and helps you to continue your journey and to take a step forward, however small.”

Jesus “invites us to dive into the good without the fear of losing something, without calculating too much, without waiting for others to begin.”

Why would a parish celebrate the 179th anniversary of someone’s birth?

Pope Francis, Martin Scorsese, Jane Goodall and a group of less famous “over 70s” talk to young filmmakers about love in the first episode of a four-part documentary available worldwide on Netflix on Christmas Day.

“When we picture God as a loving parent, hearing the cries of those in need and coming to their help, we can also remember God’s joy when we learn to follow and do the same.”

The measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.

In one of the prewedding festivities for my son, I asked the men gathered, married from 10 to 50 years, what advice they have for the groom-to-be.

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.