On Thursday, October 18,2018, Pope Francis received a verbal invitation from South Korean President Moon Jae-in from Pyongyang leader Kim Jong-un. And does not rule out a potential trip.

The Pope meets with the pilgrims from El Salvador in Rome for Romero’s canonization. Archbishop Escobar asked that the martyr become a “doctor of the Church” and that Rutilio Grande be beatified. The embrace to Angelita Morales, close to the saint until the day of his assassination.

“I imagine her as a normal girl, a girl of today, open to getting married, to having a family”. Pope Francis speaks of Our Lady, and explains the Hail Mary prayer in the new book interview with Don Marco Pozza, chaplain of the prison of Padua, published by Rizzoli and the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Vatican communiqué on McCarrick case after the publication of Viganò's dossier. The Pope has ordered an inquiry into the cardinal abuser and will follow the path of truth, wherever it may lead,

With the opening day of the third Synod of Bishops under Pope Francis, and despite the seemingly anodyne subject - “Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment” - it’s potentially the most significant summit so far on this pope’s watch.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the bishops are gathering in Rome in a moment in which the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals, and the eyes of the Catholic world will be on how they choose to engage it.

Here are 10 good reasons to shout for joy that we are Catholic.

1. The Blessed Mother. She was at the foot of the cross and understands how to console suffering victims and still love the wayward. And through the rosary, our Blessed Mother can do some real damage to the evil one.

2. We get to call out sin. Sin has to be done in secret or we’ll notice because we aren’t the sort of church that says, “Yeah, so what?” Sure, there’s some mind bending going on, but we’ve got the teachings and know how to use them.

Pope Francis asks, on Saturday, September 29, for a special prayer in the Marian month of October to ask for protection from those who seek to divide and to ask for evil not to prevail

In a joint statement, the Vatican and the Beijing government announce that an agreement has been signed, presenting it as “the fruit of a gradual and reciprocal rapprochement” and expressing the desire that the “agreement may favour a fruitful and forward-looking process of institutional dialogue”

Francis’ apostolic constitution secures the method followed in recent years: more consultation of the “people of Godˮ, extra care to the implementation phase after the assemblies. The final document, if approved by the Pope, “participates in the ordinary Magisterium”

Pope Francis on September 18, 2018, published an “Episcopalis communion” (Apostolic Constitute) to update the structure of the Synod of Bishops first set forth by Pope Paul VI in 1965.

The new document was presented at a press conference in Rome and comes less than a month before the start of Synod 2018, which runs October 3-28, 2018. The synod is on the theme: Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment.