Pope Francis has chosen one of the Holy See's most accomplished diplomats for this important post.

Cardinal George Pell of Australia promised to work with a group of survivors of sexual abuse to help prevent suicide among victims and support healing and protection programs, even as he faced scalding criticism in Australia after days of giving testimony from Rome to an investigating commission in

The way that Pope Francis broke protocol that most people missed

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.