Pope Francis in a sentence

Pope Francis knew of abuse scandal says ex-Vatican envoy (Today) - Archbishop Carlo Vigano, a staunch conservative, has launched a fresh attack on Pope Francis.

There was a red-carpet welcome to greet Pope Francis upon his arrival in PNG, marking a historic visit – the first by a pope to PNG in 30 years since Pope John Paul II’s trip in 1995.

Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI remind us that we are all called to be a Good Samaritan for others, and for those close to us.

Pope Francis stands by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan.

St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican is capped in mist during the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI presided over by Pope Francis, Thursday, Jan.

A man stands near a banner showing East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, left, shaking hands with Pope Francis, ahead of the pope's visit to the country, in Dili, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

Even if the church in Timor-Leste doesn’t want to sully the Pope’s historic visit by talking about how their own flock raped children, Pope Francis should land in Dili and plead to the victims for forgiveness and demand his own institutions do the same.

Nasaruddin Umar, grand imam of the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, kisses Pope Francis on the top of the head at the conclusion of an interreligious meeting during the Pope's Apostolic Visit to Indonesia in September.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan.

Pope Francis will be the first pope to visit the prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition, which will be open to the public from April 20 to Nov. 24.

The patriarch has been supportive of the Pope’s encyclical 2020 and his controversial “Human Fraternity” document signed in 2019 by Pope Francis and the grand imam of Al-Azhar University.

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 14, 2020.

Preynat’s trial comes amid new tensions in the Vatican, as retired Pope Benedict XVI insists in a new book on the “necessity” of priestly celibacy just as Pope Francis is weighing whether to ordain married men to address the Catholic priest shortage.

A few hours before the pope’s midday speech and prayer, the Vatican released a message sent to the warring leaders of South Sudan by Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and Presbyterian Rev. John Chalmers.

Pope Francis greets retired Pope Benedict XVI in a 2015 file photo.

They entered the chapel of the old papal apartment, where Pope Francis chose not to live, and “the pope took the reliquary that his predecessor Paul VI had placed in the little chapel and offered it to his guest,” according to Vatican News.

As a group we had hoped that with the advent of Pope Francis that the hardline stances that his predecessors, Pope John Paul 2 and Benedict XV1 had taken against minor changes in the Catholic Church would be relaxed.

He described a meeting with Pope Francis on June 23, 2013, in which he told the Pope: “Holy Father, I don’t know if you know Cardinal McCarrick, but if you ask the Congregation for Bishops there is a dossier this thick about him.

It is false to present the measures taken against him as ‘sanctions’ decreed by Pope Benedict XVI and annulled by Pope Francis,” the letter added.

Pope Francis re-appointed Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston to be president of the commission, which the pope originally established in 2014.