papal messages

In special Easter video, Pope counsels 'creativity of love' to overcome coronavirus isolation

In special Easter video, Pope counsels “creativity of love” to overcome coronavirus isolation

Pope warns against 'dangers of virtual space', urges help for online gambling, porn, videogame addicts

Pope warns against “dangers of virtual space”, urges help for online gambling, porn, videogame addicts

In special video, Francis pleads on coronavirus battle - 'Let us stay united'

In special video, Francis pleads on coronavirus battle: “Let us stay united”

For World Day of Vocations, Pope Francis encourages Church - 'Take heart, do not be afraid!'

“I know your worry about the future”: For World Day of Vocations, Pope encourages Church to overcome “ghosts of disbelief”

Pope encourages Italians battered by coronavirus - 'Let us help each other hold fast to what really matters'

Pope encourages Italians battered by coronavirus: “Let us help each other hold fast to what really matters”

In message for World Youth Day, Pope warns young against 'digital narcissism'

Sympathy, not selfies: In message for World Youth Day, Pope warns young against “digital narcissism”

Pope denounces targeted commercial, political advertising on internet

“Dulls critical thought and freedom”: Pope denounces targeted commercial, political advertising on internet

Pope Francis meets 2018 with priests of the diocese of Rome

In message to Rome priests, Pope – laid up with “cold” – warns clerics against “authoritarianism”, “puritanism”

Pope Francis blesses a poor woman

Pope cries: “It is imperative to end the exploitation of the poorest!”

Spanish National Congress of Laypeople

Francis pleads with laypeople to renew with “ingenuity and witness” a Europe “suffocated by death and despair”

Pope Francis caresses the belly of a pregnant woman February 10 in an audience with the Knights of Colombus

Francis encourages Catholics to “make ourselves one with all, starting with the last, the excluded, the discarded”

Pope Francis denounces 'dirty, underhanded... corruption' of people smugglers

“Blood money”: Francis denounces “dirty, underhanded… corruption” of human traffickers

Pope Francis shakes hands with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb

Pope renews call to religions “to say ‘no’ to violence and together promote peace, life, and religious freedom”

Pope Francis with Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi

Francis encourages Rome, other cities to seek unity, peace through fraternity

Pope Francis, in a Mass in St. Peter's

Francis calls for “courage, patience and discernment” to counter “evil” ‘fake news’