Before being appointed Pope Francis’ personal nurse in August 2022, Massimiliano Strappetti was the nursing coordinator for ...

Each year Pope Francis shared monthly prayer themes. His prayer for April 2025 was particularly pointed for the modern world: ...

Pope Francis' passion for soccer was evident throughout his pontificate. But Francis, who died Monday at 88, also turned to ...

His death ends a historic chapter for the Catholic Church. The first Latin American pope, he opened the doors of his faith to ...

At a time when nationalism, a concept long held in contempt by Francis, is surging again in the West, the church now finds ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, ...

Tributes to Pope Francis are pouring in from around the world. The Vatican announced the pontiff’s death on Monday at age 88.

2. “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). "By interceding for His transgressors through this prayer, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy foretold by ...

The Pilgrim has also been given a book, the Philokalia: a collection of ancient writings that explain the Jesus Prayer (more usually “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner”).

Twenty years after the death of St. John Paul II, on April 2, 2005, Father Stefano Cascio pays homage to the one who inspired many future priests, the famous “John Paul II generation.” ...

Jimbo Gillcrist had just started to recite his own version of the “Our Father,” and to say how ... After he started his prayer, a priest approached him at the pulpit: “Come with me.