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At a recent meeting with youth in Rome, Pope Francis recounted a brief conversation he had with a 92-year-old Italian. He reminisced that while riding through a crowd in his Popemobile, he [...]

Here inside the Beltway as we plan for Pope Francis’s visit to us, it can be easy to forget that the original impetus for his travel to the United States was the World Meeting of Families, hosted [...]

Last year’s theme for the World Day of Peace was “no longer slaves, but brothers and sisters.”  As a result, we saw the Pope continually return to themes of freeing human beings from every form [...]

Pope Francis is making the life and teachings of Jesus Christ central to his papacy. He is drawing from his Jesuit formation to fearlessly promote the gospel teachings and a vision of a church [...]

Since June 18, Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, has captured much attention. Indeed, it garnered attention long before that — with commentators lauding or lamenting it before one syllable [...]

Our family is in the habit of going to confession together. Each of us confesses individually, of course, but we know we are in it together. I’ve never told anyone this before, but going to [...]

The history of the papacy from Peter to Francis is something that has fascinated and intrigued both believers and non-believers alike. For one, it takes us through the different times of the [...]

When Pope John Paul II visited The Catholic University of America in 1979 to deliver a lecture on Catholic higher education the students chanted, “We love you, John Paul II! We love you!” And [...]

These parting words of Christ to St. Peter at the Last Supper sound much like a parent’s entrustment of the younger siblings to the eldest brother who will see to it that the house is kept in [...]

During his meeting with young people in Paraguay on July 12, Pope Francis invited those present to join him in praying: “Lord Jesus, give me a heart that is free, that I may not be a slave to all [...]