In three reflections with priests from around the world in Rome Thursday, Pope Francis called on them to enter into the complications of people’s lives. The pontiff said that mercy “gets involved” with people’s pain and needs.

Pope Francis has exhorted Catholic priests not to see people who approach them for spiritual help merely as “cases” to be handled but to instead enter into the complications of people’s lives, unafraid of being drawn in to unclear or messy situations.

An interview with the philosopher Rocco Buttiglione, an expert on the teaching of St. John Paul II: “The perspective of Francis is perfectly traditional. The novelty is in applying the possible mitigations provided for all other sins, as they are quoted in the Catechism of St. Pius X, to the sin committed by the divorced and remarried as well”

Planned resignations, a “timed” papacy with a withdrawal at eighty years of age: the words of the Pope during the Occurrentes meeting bring two years of assumptions and speculations to an end.

Francis affirms during a meeting with the children of the “Children’s Train” - Treno dei Bambini - from Calabria. What does being the Pope mean for Bergoglio? “The good that I can do”

A young girl asked Jorge Mario Bergoglio what it means “to be Pope”: “the good that I can do” was the answer. Francis also exclaimed, with a play on words, that they are not a danger to others, but that the migrants are themselves in danger. He affirmed this during a meeting with the children of the “Children’s Train” in the atrium of the Paul VI Auditorium at the Vatican.

Occasional controversies have occasionally been posted on social media networking relevant to the religion’s views towards all aspects of society. It is not a mistake to have such intellectual ''moves" which are in favour of the homeland and humanity.

An interview with Bishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Patriarchal Vicar for Jordan. On the drama of the refugees who have doubled the population of the country: “Europe is centered on itself and wants to apply its own standards to the whole world. This is totally wrong”.

The Imam of Al-Azhar in an interview to the Vatican media after his audience with the Pope: “He is a man of peace, with him we resume the path of dialogue.” Islam has nothing to do with the violence and we denounce the deviations. There are more Muslim than Christian victims.

For the first time in the Vatican, the Grand Imam of the Sunni Islamic University thanked Francis for his words on the respect due to religions and invited him to Cairo.

The meeting with Muhammad al-Tayyib, imam of Al-Azhar: peace, rejection of terrorism and “the situation of Christians in the context of conflict and tension in the Middle East, and their protection.”

Ending a five-year freeze in relations, Pope Francis is set to meet the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, Ahmed el-Tayeb, in the Vatican on Monday. The al-Azhar mosque and university complex in Cairo, Egypt, is widely considered the most prestigious institution in the Sunni Muslim world.

Just to put things into perspective, Sunnis make up 80 per cent -90 per cent of the world’s Islamic population, meaning there are roughly 1.3 to 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims. There are also 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, by far the world’s largest Christian denomination.