Global Church News

WYD volunteers quiz Pope, get advice during special luncheon

Aug 01, 2016

Pope Francis has a “stomach of iron” and considers the German Richard Wagner his favourite composer, said young Catholics who lunched privately with him July 30 during World Youth Day.
Pope Francis: Let's not rush to judge Cardinal Pell

Aug 01, 2016

In response to news that Australian authorities are investigating multiple allegations of child abuse leveled against Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis cautioned against gossip and making judgements before all the facts are known.
Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland

Aug 01, 2016

During his flight from Krakow to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists assembled aboard the papal plane.
Panama in 2019!

Aug 01, 2016

On Sunday Pope Francis officially closed WYD in Krakow, thanking the thousands of youth who traveled across the world to participate, and announced that the next global encounter will take place in Panama.
Pope Francis: ‘I don’t know whether I will be in Panama’

Aug 01, 2016

Pope Francis has told young people that he doesn’t know whether he will still be around for the next World Youth Day,
Pope Francis thanks WYD volunteers: Full text of prepared remarks

Aug 01, 2016

As World Youth Day 2016 drew to a close, Pope Francis greeted volunteers whose hard work made the event such a resounding success.
Not one of you is insignificant, Pope tells young people

Aug 01, 2016

Our true identity cannot be lived out in glum negativity, but only in the knowledge that, in God's eyes, our value cannot be measured; no one is insignificant.
Jesus is the Lord of risks, not for ‘sofa happiness’!

Aug 01, 2016

Pope Francis challenged massive crowds of young people at World Youth Day's final vigil to step away from the “sofa” of comfort and convenience, and respond to Christ's call to transform a suffering world.
French imam says priest’s killers ‘are not part of humanity’

Aug 01, 2016

Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at a mosque in the Normandy town where Fr Jacques Hamel was killed
The story of a Holocaust survivor who encountered Pope Francis

Aug 01, 2016

A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp welcomed Pope Francis’ Friday visit and asked the world to remember the suffering that took place there.