Relations between the Holy See and Vietnam are moving ahead in a positive way.

‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’

Archbishop Tobin is a man of simple lifestyle, committed to dialogue, encounter and the poor.

“I tell you that every time I enter a prison I ask myself, ‘Why them, not me?’”

“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.

Pope Francis told journalists, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”

Christian unity requires conversion: "It needs conversion of the papacy, conversion of bishops, conversion of Lutherans and of Catholics."

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope to address a general congregation.

Sometimes Pope Francis’ actions are even more eloquent than his words.

The pope is seeking to get the government and opposition to negotiate a peaceful solution to the present crisis.