The theme is a call for "reflection on the current state and nature of relationships on the internet, starting from the idea of community as a network between people in their wholeness," the Vatican said.

The pope’s appeal to Catholics comes at a moment of great turbulence in his five-year pontificate.

When the suicide monster invades the psyche, more than kindness is required. More than toughing it out.

While allowing Archbishop McCarrick to live in the diocese, Bishop Vincke said he had to reconcile his feelings of "disappointment, anger and even resentment" toward him.

Pope Francis has defrocked the Chilean priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011.

The abuse crisis cannot be fixed by priests alone.