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Pope Francis announced Wednesday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized during two major jubilee celebrations dedicated to young people.

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say "yes" to God's plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis on Sunday spoke about Jesus’ teaching that “all things must be done with love,” something, he said, that is essential for the faith of each person.

Pope Francis closed the global Synod on Synodality’s final assembly on Sunday with a call for a Church that “hears the cry of the world” without being “blind” to the urgent issues facing our time.

In a significant departure from previous synods, Pope Francis adopted the final document of the Synod on Synodality on Saturday, forgoing the traditional apostolic exhortation in favor of direct implementation of the assembly’s conclusions.

Pope Francis canonized 14 new saints on Sunday, including a father of eight and Franciscan friars killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith and convert to Islam.

"Happiness is not found in material things but in God himself, who shows us the joy found in making our lives a gift for others."

Jesus renews our way of living. He teaches us that true power does not lie in the dominion of the strongest but in care for the weakest.”

Pope Francis encouraged the people in attendance to fully experience the journey of life as pilgrims and not just sightseers.

On the second day of his apostolic visit to East Timor (Timor-Leste), Pope Francis first met with children and religious sisters at the Irmãs Alma School in Dili on Tuesday morning and thanked them for their testimony of love.

The life of every Christian, but especially of a member of a religious order, must be anchored in "a daily 'being' with Jesus,"

“A person who lives his anointing with joy gives fragrance to the Church, gives fragrance to the community, gives fragrance to his family.”

“Let us ask ourselves … When I receive the Eucharist, which is the miracle of mercy, do I stand in awe before the body of the Lord, who died and rose again for us?”

Pope Francis urged people to truly listen to God’s voice rather than looking to the Lord for a confirmation of their own ideas.

The pope prayed that everyone would find the strength to keep going "with this comforting certainty in our hearts: 'With God nothing will be impossible.'"

Do not be consumed by “the anxiety of doing” but spend time in rest and silent prayer to receive God’s grace.

"When we are content with what is necessary, even with little, with God's help we are able to go forward and get along, sharing what there is, everyone renouncing something and supporting each other."

Pope Francis praised the ongoing National Eucharistic Revival in the United States, saying in a letter published Tuesday that he wished to extend a special blessing to all those attending the National Eucharistic Congress later this month.

Pope Francis prayed for the intercession of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday to convert “the hearts of those who want war” to projects of dialogue and peace.

"Often even among us, beyond appearances, the miracle is already underway, and in due course it will bear abundant fruit,”

Speaking in his Angelus address on June 9, the pope asked people to...

On the occasion of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, Pope Francis on Thursday said “the Eucharist is God’s response to the deepest hunger of the human heart, the true hunger.”

“Because the Holy Spirit is God, he is within us. We receive the Holy Spirit in baptism, we receive him in the sacraments. The Holy Spirit is the one who accompanies us in life.”

Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first "millennial" to become a Saint.