In his homily on New Year’s eve,, the pope said God gave to us a “whole and sound” year, but “we humans in so many ways ruined and hurt it.”

At Vatican II, the pope said, the church recognized its responsibility to “proclaim the Gospel in a new way.”

Medics are useless if the wounded cannot reach them.

Pope Francis has already attracted more than 40 million followers on Twitter, and he is quickly making a splash on Instagram as well.

Pope Francis, newly 81, will begin 2018 with a focus on Mary and on migrants and refugees.

In Europe, Christmas is being stripped of its true nature "in the name of a false respect for those who are not Christian."