Pope Francis heads Friday to Marseille for a two-day visit focused on the Mediterranean and migration, and bringing a message of tolerance amid bitter debate over how Europe manages asylum seekers.
Pope Francis met on Monday with the new Russian ambassador to the Vatican, who said they discussed the pontiff’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
Pope Francis has expelled a priest of the Diocese of Borongan, Easter Samar over alleged sexual abuse involving minors.
Pope Francis has granted the request of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to establish the Permanent Diaconate in the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions.
American actor Sylvester Stallone travelled to the Vatican on Friday for a brief private audience with Pope Francis.
Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula disclosed the Archdiocese of Manila has “divested all our investments from coal and other destructive businesses since years ago.”
Pope Francis on Sunday told Catholics in China to be “good Christians and good citizens”, using his visit to Mongolia to help ease tensions between the Vatican and Beijing.
Pope Francis appeared to seek to reassure China on Saturday, using a gathering of Catholic missionaries in Mongolia to state that governments had “nothing to fear” from the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis was given an exuberant welcome to Mongolia Friday on the first papal visit to the Asian nation, as he sent a message of “unity and peace” to neighbouring China in a bid to improve ties.
Pope Francis heads to Mongolia this week, an unlikely choice given the isolated nation’s small Catholic community, but a strategic one due to the young democracy’s geographical position between two superpowers.
