“Yes, some are H.I.V.-positive, but what is that?” asks Sister Agie. “They are precious children; they have their whole life before them.”

With soaring food prices and a free-falling economy, child malnutrition in Venezuela has crossed the threshold of a humanitarian crisis.

One by one, Francis blessed and greeted each of the family members and their caregivers who traveled from around the world for the audience.

I was Catholic. You pray, you receive the sacraments, you imitate the saints. What more guidance do you need?

A significant obstacle for Catholics with depression and/or anxiety was the dangerous—and wrongful—interpretation of these conditions as spiritual failures.