Fabrizio Soccorsi, Pope Francis’ personal doctor, died Jan. 9 of complications caused by Covid-19.

Recognizing “the gifts of each baptized person”—women and men—Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes.

Pope Francis is “deeply concerned” about the situation in the United States and is praying for peace and harmony in the country.

In a wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis said he was “astounded” at disorder at the U.S. Capitol. He also said he would get the Covid-19 vaccine next week and that “everyone should be vaccinated.”

We expect too much from politics, more than it can or should provide. Only prayer can transform us.

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Once you allow a notion of yours, however right and righteous, to separate you from the community, you have become the victim of sin. You are not its solution.

“Yesterday revealed a deep part of who we are as Americans,” said Father Bryan Massingale, in an interview with America’s editor in chief, Matt Malone, S.J.

What we saw today is a clear declaration that many white people would rather live in a white dictatorship than in a multiracial democracy.

Below is the text of Pope Francis' homily, delivered on Jan. 6, 2021, the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord.