“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.

In his first in-depth interview with a U.S. broadcast network, Pope Francis addressed a wide range of topics, including the war in Ukraine, antisemitism, and U.S. immigration policy. 

As the Catholic Church in the United States prepares to celebrate its first National Eucharistic Congress in over half a century, Pope Francis will send His Eminence Luis Cardinal Tagle as his special envoy. 

The papal bull, titled “Spes Non Confudit,” meaning “Hope Does Not Disappoint,” declares that the Jubilee Year will officially begin with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve 2024.

Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of May is for the formation of men and women religious and for seminarians.

"I like to think of hope as an anchor that is anchored in the future," our Holy Father said.

Meeting with seminarians of the Archdiocese of Burgos April 27, the...

Pope Francis met with female prisoners in Venice, Italy, encouraging them to maintain hope and to grow spiritually.

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, according to the head of the Vatican’s office for saints’ causes.

"The most beautiful thing we have to tell is our encounter with Jesus."

The pope encouraged the scouts to "take charge" of the current climate crisis and from there, to deeply consider "the specific place that human beings occupy in this world and their relations with the reality that surrounds them."

The Scotland-based organization Mary’s Meals, which feeds almost 2.5 million children in some of the world’s poorest countries, has been partnering with the Daughters of Charity in Tigray since 2017 to provide meals for thousands of children. 

To combat a "throwaway culture," Pope Francis proposed promoting a "culture of inclusion" which removes the barriers that impede all people from accessing basic rights and freedoms.