“I come as a pilgrim and a brother,” Pope Francis said in a video message to the people of Romania on the eve of his visit to the largest of the Balkan states and a predominantly Orthodox country.

Pope Francis: “I knew nothing about McCarrick.... If not, I would not have remained silent.”

The logic of “me first and then the others,” sometimes cited by believers and frequently used by politicians to gain votes and power in European countries, the United States and elsewhere, is not the logic of Christ.

Caritas Internationalis is increasingly being called to help with challenges provoked by climate change. “Our food production is at stake.”

“One of the first things that dictators do is to remove the freedom of the press,” he said.

Pope Francis has authorized the organization of pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, the Vatican announced today.