Pope Francis: “I knew nothing about McCarrick.... If not, I would not have remained silent.”

"Human life is sacred and inviolable and the use of prenatal diagnosis for selective purposes must be strongly discouraged because it is the expression of an inhuman eugenic mentality, which deprives families of the possibility of welcoming, embracing and loving their weakest children," the pope said on May 25.

The logic of “me first and then the others,” sometimes cited by believers and frequently used by politicians to gain votes and power in European countries, the United States and elsewhere, is not the logic of Christ.

Whenever Pope Francis discusses the economy, it sets off cries that the pope is a socialist or a communist.

“One of the first things that dictators do is to remove the freedom of the press,” he said.

Pope Francis has gone “to the peripheries,” creating cardinals from 50 different nations, but Europe still accounts for more than 40 percent of electors in the College of Cardinals.