Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, after four of their sisters were killed in Aden, the port city of Yemen, on March 4. Departing from his prepared text during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, he hailed these sist

“This conversation about women is not for women, it is for the church.”

The pope prayed Mother Teresa would accompany into paradise these four “martyrs of charity.”

Francis feels free to offer a fresh look at issues of prudential judgment.

The cardinal said, in hindsight, “I would agree that I should have done more.”

Cardinal Pell testified about an "extraordinary world of crimes and cover-ups," where many wanted to keep the status quo.

As a young priest in the early 1970s, Pell lived in a presbytery with Australia's most notorious pedophile priest.

Cardinal Pell began a multi-day testimony to Australia's Royal Commission on the Institutional Response to the sexual abuse of children.

“Dear Pope Francis, My mum is in heaven. Will she grow angel wings?”

Francis could open doors in his Exhortation on the Family.