Peter and Paul, Pope Francis noted, provide valuable role models to encourage us toward unity and prophecy.

Both prayers and economic assistance, Pope Francis stressed, are needed to ameliorate the ongoing humanitarian catastrophes in Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.

At the Church of the Gesú in Rome, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., ordained 18 deacons and two priests who have been studying in Rome.

During his last morning in Regensburg, the 93-year-old retired pope visited his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, one last time.

“The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need to ensure the necessary protection for refugees.”

“You have been one of the pillars of the whole country,” the pope said in his first public audience since lockdown.