Mandated by the cardinals in the pre-conclave meetings to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis is taking his task very seriously and moving in a more radical direction than anyone had expected. His aim is not simply structural reform of the Vatican offices, though that is part of it; his primary goa

Archbishop Oscar Romero ldquo is a martyr of the Church of the Second Vatican Council In killing him they wanted to hit the Church that flowed from the Second Vatican Council rdquo Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia the postulator of his cause for beatification told a press briefing in the Vatican on

El Salvadoran archbishop 'was killed in hatred of the faith' on March 24, 1980

Under heavy rain Francis spoke from the heart to survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.

Pope Francis has decided that the public ceremony of investiture of the Pallium on Metropolitan Archbishops will henceforth take place in the prelates rsquo home dioceses and not in the Vatican as has been the case under recent pontiffs He believes that in this way the ceremony quot will greatly f

Pope Francis is engaged in a slow but determined process to remake the College of Cardinals and renew the electors who will choose his successor. His aim is to increase the college’s universality by affirming the churches on the peripheries, to correct present imbalances and to ensure there is

Beginning the second leg of his South Asian journey, Pope Francis did not mince words when he addressed government and church leaders of the Philippines on Jan. 16. A day after his triumphal arrival from Sri Lanka, he called on them to combat and eliminate “scandalous” social inequalitie

In a wide-ranging press conference on the flight from Manila to Rome Pope Francis spoke about corruption in Governments and the Church the need for prudence with freedom of expression why he didn rsquo t meet the Dalai Lama recently and the Church rsquo s position on birth control nbsp He talke

Before a record crowd of between six and seven million people Pope Francis entrusted a double mission to the Philippine Church at his last public mass in this country on Sunday January 18 that included both a domestic and an Asian component At the domestic level he encouraged them to work for jus

The wind was blowing increasingly strong the tepid rain was falling steadily as Pope Francis wearing a yellow plastic poncho assured some 300 000 survivors of the worst typhoon in history that Jesus is always with them in the midst of all their sufferings he understands what they are undergoin