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Students at a Jesuit Worldwide Learning Center pose in an undated photo. The centers offer a mixture of online and in-person educational opportunities in service of people who have been displaced because of political turmoil, violence and other crises throughout the world.

Jesuit program goes to 'the margins' to bring education to refugees

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Worldwide Learning: Education at the Margins offers a mixture of online and in-person educational opportunities in service of people who have been displaced because of political turmoil, violence and other crises throughout the world.

An Iraqi man prepares a makeshift altar for the first Sunday Mass Oct. 30, 2016 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh after it was recaptured from Islamic State militants.

Pope Francis: Clergy in Middle East must be the 'last among the least'

VATICAN CITY – Christians in war-torn areas of the Middle East must never be far from priests and bishops in their country so they can feel God's closeness in the midst of suffering, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis jokes with an NFL Hall of Fame representative about wearing a helmet that was a gift for the Pope during a visit at the Vatican on June 21, 2017.

Pope tells NFL legends he backs a ‘different’ kind of football

VATICAN CITY – It may not have been his kind of "football," and he may not have much use for his new helmet, but Pope Francis welcomed a group of NFL veterans and told them their sport has "virtues."

Pope Francis accepted the early resignation of Libero Milone, the Vatican's first independent auditor who answered only to the Pope, June 20.

Pope accepts early resignation of Vatican's first independent auditor

VATICAN CITY – Just two years after being hired to help with the Vatican's efforts in finance reform, Libero Milone – the Vatican's first independent auditor who answered only to the Pope – handed a request for his resignation to Pope Francis.

Chile's national flag is seen as Pope Francis leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 5. The Vatican announced the pope will visit Chile Jan. 15-18 and Peru Jan. 18-21.

Pope Francis to visit Chile, Peru in January 2018

LIMA, Peru – The Holy See Press Office announced Monday that Pope Francis will travel to Chile from January 15 to 18 and Peru from January 18 to 21, 2018.

ope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi June 18 outside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran.

Eucharist is reminder of God's love, call to unity, Pope says

ROME – The Eucharist is a tangible reminder of God's love, and receiving Communion is a call to work to build the body of Christ by loving others and shunning all that sows division within a community, Pope Francis said.

Catholics around the world number 1.28 billion people, which is about 17.7 percent of the global population. The Vatican's Central Statistics Office compiles the figures each year and includes them in the 500-page Statistical Yearbook of the Church.

Charting change: Vatican statistics track church health indicators

VATICAN CITY – The health of the Catholic Church can be measured in many ways, and the Vatican has a special office just for that purpose.

Sister Marie Dominic, right, professes her first vows as a cloistered nun May 28 at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, Calif. Sister Marie Dominic was an attorney and an evangelical Christian in Anchorage, Alaska, who joined the Catholic Church during her last months of law school.

Former attorney professes first vows as cloistered Dominican nun

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Tara Clemens was an Anchorage, Alaska, attorney, and an evangelical Christian who joined the Catholic Church during her last months of law school.

Pope Francis meets with 10 bishops of Canada's Atlantic region March 16 during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican.

Francis holds ‘ad limina’ visits a little differently than his predecessors

VATICAN CITY – The bishops' ad limina visits under Pope Francis has been a little different than under past pontiffs: there are no more speech exchanges and one additional meeting has been added to the schedule.

Monks from the Monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, visit the site of their collapsed basilica, which was destroyed during the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck the town Oct. 30.

Norcia monks selling special edition beer to fundraise for earthquake rebuild

NORCIA, Italy – It was God and beer sales that helped sustain the Benedictine monks of Norcia, and it is God and beer sales that will help them rebuild.

Father Dominic Nnoshiri, a member of the Spiritans' southeast Nigeria province, pictured in Rome June 14, completed specialized studies in safeguarding children from abuse. The program, run by the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University, helps staff from the world’s dioceses, bishops' conferences, religious orders and other church bodies improve their child protection efforts.

New child protection experts graduate from Rome's Jesuit university

VATICAN CITY – Before students were presented with their diplomas in safeguarding minors, they each received a logoed mug as a memento of their time in the Centre for Child Protection's intensive program at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

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