Pope Francis began a series of general audience talks Aug. 5 about the principles of Catholic social teaching that can help the world recover from the pandemic and move forward in a way that is better for human beings and for the environment.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle unpacks Francis’ central ideas of community, the universal destination of goods and care for the environment.

It is in plain view that many of our fellow citizens are so frustrated with our political system that they have fallen for populist rhetoric to condemn all “politicians” or government itself as evil.

The Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States released a new document to aid Catholics as this year's election draws nearer.

The new encyclical will bear the title “Fratelli tutti” and it will be released on the feast of St. Francis on Oct. 3.

Between 2007 and the publication of “Laudato Si’” in 2015, Pope Francis “underwent a journey of conversion, of conversion of the ecological problem. Before that I didn’t understand anything.”

Given the longevity of the pandemic, the church in Europe will have to deal with the urgency of keeping the faithful engaged in their faith, according to the archbishop of Luxembourg.

In his message for the sixth World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis also called for "the cancellation of the debt of the most vulnerable countries."

While cautioning against blind reliance on “unseen forces and the invisible hand of the market,” Pope Francis sees the creative work of business as fundamental to building a just society.

Bolivia’s bishops want environmental concerns to play a key role when voters go to the polls to elect a new government in October.