After greeting the groups of international pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, the Pope asked people to pray for the people of Los Angeles, who are still suffering from the ongoing wildfires.
The Jan. 25 event with communicators was the second of the Saturday jubilee audiences of 2025, following a first meeting with pilgrims.
Pope Francis meets representatives of the media during a public jubilar audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025
God tells Christians not to be afraid because he is always close, accompanying the faithful throughout their lives and through all their challenges.
Pope Francis falls and hurts his arm, Vatican says, weeks after another fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.
Pope Francis has offered prayers for the people of Los Angeles as they endure deadly fires. Francis referred to the disaster during his weekly general audience Wednesday and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.
Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.
Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.
Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to make good on that vow, writes Rich Barlow, he should reconsider Catholicism’s insistence on an all-male priesthood.
The sanctions imposed on Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne include restrictions “relating to his public activity, place of residence and use of insignia,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
“In my hands, I have a nine-page speech,” the pope said with a smile to participants gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. He announced to an applauding audience that he would have this ...