While sin may distort and disfigure the image of Christ that every person bears, it does not completely erase it, nor does it remove people from God's abundant mercy, Pope Francis said.
The approval decades ago of a Zairean rite of the Roman Missal demonstrated that it is possible also to develop a rite for the Amazon region, Pope Francis said in a preface to a new book.
John Silver Statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome. Cardinal Angelo de Donatis, vicar general of the Diocese of Rome, composed a prayer of entrustment to Mary for Catholics to say from home on...
Vatican Media Pope Francis touches a statue of Our Lady of Lujan after the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 30, 2019. More than 12,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed...