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Pope Francis accepts a gift during an audience with children participating in the "Train of Children" at the Vatican June 9. Children from poor suburbs outside Milan arrived on a train that stopped at the Vatican.

Pope tells children to remembers their roots while sharing his childhood memories

VATICAN – Pope Francis told Italian schoolchildren that he grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, "the most beautiful city in the world," and that besides playing soccer, he loved to fly kites as a child.
Pope Francis leaves his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 6.

Blasphemy is the gravest sin, Pope says

VATICAN – During his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis discussed the incomprehension Christ faced during his earthly ministry, from both the scribes and his own family.
Pope Francis leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 6.

Gossip destroys Holy Spirit's gift of peace, Pope says

VATICAN – Peace is a gift that can easily be destroyed through petty gossip and speaking ill of others, Pope Francis said.
Turkish women try to connect to Twitter at a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey.

Pope's June prayer intention focuses a more inclusive social media

VATICAN – In his prayer video for June, Pope Francis asked that digital communications and social media platforms would be a place of inclusion and encounter, rather than isolation and “alienation.”
Pope Francis baptizes an infant Jan. 7 in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

No sin can erase 'spiritual seal' of baptism, Pope says

VATICAN – The baptismal font is a tomb in which a person dies to sin, and it is a womb through which a person is born to new life in Christ, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis kisses a child during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 2.

Either you are with God or with Satan, Pope says

VATICAN – Baptism requires rejecting Satan and professing one's full faith in God, Pope Francis said.
Christ as the True Vine.

God's word on Sunday: Christ nourishes our life on the vine

Fifth Sunday of Easter, April 29 (Year B) Acts 9:26-31; Psalm 22; 1 John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8

Pope Francis speaks with top officials of the Roman Curia and Vatican City State and with cardinals living in Rome in the Clementine Hall Dec. 2017.

Pope, Council of Cardinals discuss new document on Roman Curia

VATICAN – Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals have reviewed a complete draft of the apostolic constitution that would govern the Roman Curia, the Vatican spokesman said.
Sergio Guidi, president of the Italian tree conservation association, "Patriarchi della Natura," presents a potted tree to Pope Francis at his general audience April 18. The association presented eight saplings from tree species that are threatened or endangered with extinction. The saplings were planted in the Vatican Gardens.

Be fruitful and multiply: Threatened trees planted in Vatican Gardens

VATICAN – The Vatican Gardens has branched out and added a small orchard to its hillsides, becoming a safe haven for a number of endangered native Italian fruit and nut tree species.
Pope Francis smiles as a papal security guard holds up a baby during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 18.

Name given at baptism gives sense of identity, belonging, Pope says

VATICAN – Naming a child is an important task for parents, because it gives children a sense of identity and belonging to their family and to God, Pope Francis said.
Rachel Lambert, the wife of Vincent Lambert, sits behind lawyers as she waits for the start of a hearing concerning the case of her husband at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, in this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo. Vincent Lambert, 42, a quadriplegic since an automobile accident in 2008, has been on a feeding tube at a hospital in Reims. The hospital has ordered his food and water be removed April 19.

Respect life of severely ill patients like Alfie Evans, Pope says

VATICAN – Highlighting the plight of a seriously ill toddler in Great Britain and a severely brain-damaged man in France, Pope Francis called for greater respect for every patient's life and dignity.
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