Popes included, but there have been many more who lived saintly lives of sacrifice. The Catholic Church is where you got the Bible, it is where we got Western civilization, the idea of the dignity of all people, women being elevated from property to valued humans. It...
He is def a man of traditional conservative values, and is quite outspoken about his strong beliefs. He is NOT a proponent of gay rights, gay marriage, abortion, use of birth control, or any number of bedrock Catholic conservative views. Pope Francis called gay adoption “discrimination against...
Francis has frequently made the same demographic quip at home in Italy, which has one of the world’s lowest birthrates. But the high-profile trip meant that his trademark sarcasm got amplified. American commentators immediately assumed Francis had entered the “childless cat ladies” debate roil...
Vatican Diary:For the 12th consecutive year, Pope Francis visited a Roman cemetery November 2. This year, he prayed for parents facing perinatal grief. Every week, La Croix's permanent special correspondent in the Vatican reveals the behind-the-scenes of
As Francis has gotten older, he has talked a lot about this stage of life, though rarely in personal terms. Last year, he devoted several speeches to the “meaning and value of old age,” decrying how the elderly are often seen as a “burden,” and making a case for the...
Pope Opens Door on Contraception ; Francis Says Birth Control Can Be Used to Slow Zika, Stoking Debate in ChurchThe pope's remarks stirred up divisions in the Roman CatholicChurch in South America about...Simon RomeroJim Yardley
Pope Francis has urged Indonesia to live up to its promise of “harmony in diversity” and fight religious intolerance.
This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the guardian of liberty, who labored tirelessly that “this nation, under God, [might] have a new birth of freedom”. Building a future of freedom requires love of the common good and...
It was the late Jesuit Pedro Arrupe, the superior general of the pope's own religious order, who first urged the Church to make a "preferential option for the poor". That was back in 1968 before Francis was even ordained to the presbyterate. And while the Church at large, in...
[Aura Vistas]: And about the youth of Russia and Ukraine? [Pope Francis]:Americo has something in mind. He told me he is preparing something. He is preparing it well. [Nicole Winfield, Associated Press]: Holy Father, I wanted to ask you something a little different. You recently...