“Wearing the label ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’ is not enough to belong to Jesus. We need to speak the same language as Jesus: that of love,” Pope Francis said as he celebrated the third World Day of the Poor.

It will be his fourth trip to Asia since becoming pope.

"If Pope Francis is needed, we should add him.”

Anand Giridharadas comes to conclusions that are consonant with the works of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Francis’ reforms of the church are, depending on whom you ask, a long-awaited breath of fresh air or a slippery slope toward surrender to the modern world.

Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching.