Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo and the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, signed the accord during an official ceremony at the Government Palace in Dili, the capital city, on August 14.

Pope Francis is convinced that the Holy Spirit is active in popular movements.

I have been on all the foreign trips Francis has made since becoming pope, but his visit in July to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay revealed new dimensions of the man and the impact of his ministry.“We love people, not concepts or ideas,” he declared during a Mass in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. T

Francis wants to implement and develop the teaching of Vatican II on collegiality.

The greatest obstacle to Christian unity is ‘the spirit of possessiveness.’

Francis’ visit takes him to ‘the peripheries of the South American periphery.’