2025 Jubilee Year of Hope

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Pope Francis greets members of Italy’s National Youth Council at the Vatican on Nov. 16, 2024.

Pope Francis: Young people can be ‘artisans of hope’ amid mental health challenges

Nov 16, 2024

By AC Wimmer

“The challenges are many: the dignity of work, family, education, civic engagement, care for creation, and new technologies,” Pope Francis... Read more

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Pope Francis’ apostolic nuncio to the United States, addresses the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in July 2024.

U.S. nuncio: Bishops must foster missionary zeal

Nov 12, 2024

By Shannon Mullen

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Holy See’s U.S. ambassador, delivered his remarks Nov. 12 at the opening of the bishops’ annual... Read more

Pope Francis raises his glass at the start of a lunch with poor and economically disadvantaged people in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Nov. 19, 2023.

Pope Francis to have Sunday lunch with 1,300 guests on World Day of the Poor

Nov 12, 2024

By Kristina Millare

This year’s lunch, organized by the Dicastery for the Service of Charity in collaboration with the Italian Red Cross, will... Read more