In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose "pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away."

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.

Authorities say Sunday's bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin

Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”