The invitation came amid increasingly closer relations between the Vatican and al-Azhar University, which is considered the most authoritative theological-academic institution of Sunni Islam.

Pope Francis asked God's forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests and religious.

March 19 marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of “Amoris Laetitia.”

St. Paul warns of "the risk that our charity can become hypocritical," the pope said.

Francis never made the purported comments and has not changed or added to the Ten Commandments.