On the occasion of the award ceremony of the Foundation dedicated to the Pope Emeritus, the Orthodox musician will perform the Pater Noster on Benedict XVI’s piano.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received the composer Arvo Pärt and the other two winners of the 2017 Ratzinger Prize, the German Lutheran theologian Theodor Dieter and the German Catholic theologian and priest Karl-Heinz Menke, to whom Pope Francis will hand over the Prize along with Pärt, an Estonian and Orthodox composer.

At Mass for the first World Day of the Poor, Francis warns against “the great sin of indifference: for it is an evangelical duty to take care of those who suffer”;

"In the poor, Jesus knocks on the doors of our heart, thirsting for our love. When we overcome our indifference and - Francis says - those who store up treasures for themselves, do not grow rich in the sight of God". And he adds, "for all of us are beggars when it comes to what is essential: God’s love, which gives meaning to our lives and a life without end".

Interview with the “ex-clandestine” Bishop of Lanzhou. Until now unrecognized by the Chinese authorities, he has taken office with legitimacy.

Message to the international meeting for the implementation of the Paris Agreement abandoned by the United States: avoid denial, combat climate-change.

In a moving ceremony held at the Free Evangelical Church in Amman’s Khalda neighbourhood on November 14, members of evangelical churches in Palestine and Jordan announced the creation of a unified coordinating alliance, made up of: the Council of Local Evangelical Churches in The Holy Land, the Council of Evangelical Churches of Galilee and the Jordan Evangelical Council.

John Paul I's niece comments on the decree of the Causes of Saints and recounts memories and private details of her relationship with the Pope whom she describes as “a second father”. “He was a man of culture and hope, not a poor man who died under the weight of responsibility”.

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Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons by various world governments, in what appears to be a departure from the Roman Catholic Church’s prior acceptance of the Cold War-era global system of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction.

Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons by various world governments, in what appears to be a departure from the Roman Catholic Church’s prior acceptance of the Cold War-era global system of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction.

The title of Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love contains, in two words, the whole of the message. It connects joy with love like two sides of the same coin, one marked by the seal of the Holy Trinity, “the mystery from which all true love flows”.

“Prospects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament” will bring disarmament experts from around the world together for a symposium on November 10-11, 2017, at the New Synod Hall in the Vatican. The event is sponsored by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Churchgoing parents generally assume that their children will attend with them and eventually join them as their own expression of faith. This is what parents pray for and plan for. But, what do you do when your child does not want to attend church anymore?

Many parents know exactly how this works. The child reaches the age where they start to have their own thoughts about the family weekend. The child wants to sleep in, play sports, or do something other than go to church. What should a parent do when their child does not want to go to church?