This week-long journey takes him first to Cuba and then to the United States and is widely considered “the big one” of the year.

Pope Francis comes to embrace all Americans.

Timor-Leste is the world’s most densely populated Catholic country after Vatican City.

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