“Never forget that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a lay person and his first disciple.”

Pope John Paul II described the Mafia as "a culture of death, profoundly inhuman, anti-Gospel, an enemy of human dignity and civil peace.''

A Vatican source explained that whenever the pope is invited to such a large public event he does not see the guest list in advance nor is the list checked by Vatican officials, as they trust the organizers of these gatherings to act in a responsible way.

A graphic novel about Pope Francis.

The pope met with three victims of Chile’s most notorious predator priest, Father Fernando Karadima