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Pope Francis praying in 2015

Pope prays for Orthodox, Catholic Christians kidnapped in Syria

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis led Christians in praying for Catholic and Orthodox clergy and religious kidnapped in Syria and around the world.

Pope Francis hears confession of a youth April 23 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

When it comes to happiness, there's no app for that, Pope tells teens

VATICAN CITY – Happiness "is not an 'app' that you can download on your phones nor will the latest update help you become free and great in loving," Pope Francis told thousands of teenagers.

Fr. Henri Nouwen’s spiritual writings were simple and clear, a real language of the heart, according to Fr. Ron Rolheiser.

20 years beyond the grave, Nouwen still teaching

TORONTO – Fr. Henri Nouwen is still trying to help us understand. He’s been dead 20 years, but he’s still there talking to us about our gifts and our failures, our hopes and our doubts, God and love and sin and community and loneliness.

Bishop-elect Scott McCaig celebrates Mass at the St. Therese School.

Scott McCaig dared to be a priest

OTTAWA – Bishop-elect Scott McCaig traces the beginning of his priestly vocation to a chance glimpse of a sign on the side of the road.

Journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi walks to his trial April 6 at the Vatican.

'VatiLeaks' trial: Author says he had duty to publish private documents

An Italian journalist said he was given private documents by a Vatican official detailing problems with financial reforms and that he had a duty to publish them.

"Amoris Laetitia" lets us know sex is not something to be looked down upon

"Amoris Laetitia" lets us know sex is not something to be looked down upon

Sex is not something the Church fears or is trying to control. Sex is not the opposite of prayer and spirituality, it’s not something we grudgingly concede to the young. Sex is not merely the mechanism of reproduction, although there’s no such thing as a full and true understanding of sex that can’t live with our human capacity to make babies.

Copies of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), are seen during the document's release at the Vatican April 8. The exhortation is the concluding document of the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family.

Moving Vatican II forward

Pope Francis’ long meditation on love in the family does more than sum up two meetings of the world’s bishops in Rome in 2014 and 2015. Francis is bringing a new spark to an old fire.

Cardinal Thomas Collins at the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in January.

Collins’ misgivings allayed by final Synod document

TORONTO – In six months Cardinal Thomas Collins’ misgivings about the 2015 Synod on the Family have been banished by a deeply scriptural Synod summation from Pope Francis.

Astronaut Mike Hopkins works with a pair of free-flying satellites in the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory Nov. 4, 2013. Hopkins was able to observe his Catholic faith through prayer and taking holy Communion throughout his flight.

For Catholic astronauts, flying to space doesn't mean giving up the faith

WASHINGTON - On the International Space Station there's a place, while filled with robotic equipment, where astronauts like to hang out. Called the Cupola, the small module has seven large bay windows that give crew members a panoramic view of Earth.

The cover of Time magazine on April 8, 1966 — Good Friday nonetheless —asked if God was dead. Five decades later, a new poll shows 89 per cent of Americans believe in God.

50 years ago, Time asked if God was dead? Millions today would say no

WASHINGTON - It hit like the proverbial ton of bricks: the Time magazine cover story of April 8, 1966 — Good Friday that year — asking, “Is God Dead?”

Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, is pictured in Rome Oct. 8, 2014. Archbishop Durocher, who represented the Canadian church at the 2014 and 2015 synods on the family, said the new text invites people to rediscover and protect the beauty of marriage and the family.

Canadian bishops point to "Amoris Laetitia" in fight against euthanasia

OTTAWA — Canada’s Catholic bishops are glad to count Pope Francis as an ally in their fight against euthanasia. The bishops were anxious to point out how strong the Pope rejects euthanasia in his post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetita: On Love in the Family, Apr. 8, noting in its teachings its rejection of euthanasia.

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