Five years ago, Pope Francis raised consciousness about caring for our common home, writes Mark Graham. Now the Vatican must prioritize the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions before it is too late.

Disallowing emergency aid to one part of an affected community and allowing it for another runs contrary to long-held social policy, Catholic education advocates said.

Pope Francis asked the group to ‘prepare the future’ not ‘prepare for the future.’

In the absence of irrefutable evidence, the public response has fallen, as with so much else in this era of polarization, along partisan lines.

The sacrifice of those we remember this month with “our undying gratitude” will not have been in vain.

In a letter commemorating the centenary of Pope Saint John Paul II's birth, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflects that John Paul sought to spread the message that "God's mercy is intended for every individual" and that the late pope was no "moral rigorist" that some have portrayed him as being.