Boston College Magazine: Many of the pope’s supporters have expressed disappointment with Francis’s decision on viri probati, or ordaining married men. Were you surprised by the apostolic exhortation?

During his years of priestly and episcopal ministry, he was able to experience that they "contain an active evangelizing force which we must not underestimate, otherwise we would fail to recognize the ...

while Francis reciprocated with papal medals and magisterial documents. The pope specifically recommended that Macron read his apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exultate, drawing attention to the ...

On this week's 60 Minutes, correspondent Norah O'Donnell sat down with Pope Francis for a historic interview ... rather than the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, where popes have ...

Pope Francis has consistently called us to live with joy, most especially in his apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel," in which we find the word joy 110 times. Zephaniah, who proclaims ...

In Evangelii Gaudium, Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation, there is a chapter on “the evangelizing power of popular piety” in which the pope said “popular piety enables us to see how the ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Brambilla ...

As Pope Francis turns 88 today ... Mary Magdalene and the apostles.” (apostolic exhortation on St. Thérèse) “In the Catholic tradition there is this motto, this saying: Ad Iesum per Mariam ...