Pope Francis also called on world leaders “to invest in health care as the primary common good.”

Officials in Vatican City are cautiously preparing protocols for reopening various sites to the public so that people will be safe from the coronavirus.

On this episode of the Inside the Vatican podcast, the hosts explain the background of the London deal, what happened to the suspended employees, and what questions still remain.

“I am a friar and I remain a friar,” the Rev. Marco Tasca told his fellow Franciscans.

Italian Catholics will be able to attend Mass in public beginning on May 18, provided certain norms are respected.

It would be a powerful outward sign of unity in the church if the pope emeritus and those who advise him sought to avoid situations in which his public comments will be inevitably misused to suggest a division that Benedict has never wanted.