Faith

Cardinal Thomas Collins said that the new evangelization isn't about condemning our culture but healing it.

Support of abortion, euthanasia arise out of the ‘illusions’ of compassion: Collins

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TORONTO - The new evangelization isn't about condemning our culture but healing it, Cardinal Thomas Collins told an audience of doctors, nurses and health care ethicists at the annual Cardinal Ambrozic Lecture in Toronto.

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero is pictured in a 1979 photo in San Salvador. The official promoter of the sainthood cause of the late archbishop indicated April 22 that the cause would be moving forward. Archbishop Romero was shot dead March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass. His assassination came during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Vatican official says Archbishop Romero's sainthood cause 'unblocked'

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VATICAN CITY - Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and the official promoter of the sainthood cause of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, said the process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain Salvadoran archbishop has been unblocked.

Ten priests lie prostrate during their ordination by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 21.

Pope ordains new priests, talks about learning to hear Jesus' voice

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VATICAN CITY - Before ordaining 10 men to the priesthood, Pope Francis prayed privately with them in the sacristy and entrusted them to Mary's care.

Pope Francis on April 15 reaffirmed the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s call for reform of the U.S.-based Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Pope reaffirms call for reform of U.S. nuns’ group

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has reaffirmed the Vatican’s call for reform of the U.S.-based Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Pope Francis leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 17, one of several occasions on which he mentioned the devil.

Battle with the devil: Pope Francis frames the fight in Jesuit terms

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VATICAN CITY - In the teaching of Pope Francis, the devil has a more dastardly agenda than just convincing people to break one of the Ten Commandments; "the enemy" wants them to feel weak, worthless and always ready to complain or gossip.

Br. Anthony lost part of his arm in an industrial accident. To Br. Anthony, it wasn’t a tragedy however. Instead, he would tell people about his prosthetic arm, “This is grace.”

Br. Anthony found his home in God

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Every immigrant who ever came to Canada dreaming of something better, something worthy of their best hopes, struggled, wished they had never come and wanted to go home has a soul brother in Br. Anthony Kowalczyk.

Pope Francis gives a thumbs up as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 10.

Being Christian means acting, loving like Christ, Pope says at audience

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VATICAN CITY - A Christian isn't a person who simply follows some commandments, but is a person who tries to think like Christ, "act like him, love like him," Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience.

Franciscan Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo is pictured at the Franciscan general curia offices in Rome in 2010. The superior general of the Order of Friars Minor has been appointed by Pope Francis as secretary of the Vatican office that oversees the world 's religious orders. It was the new pope's first curial appointment.

Pope names head of Franciscans to Vatican office overseeing religious

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VATICAN CITY - In his first appointment to the curia, Pope Francis named the superior of the Franciscans as secretary of the Vatican office that oversees the world's religious orders.

Pope Francis greets the crowd from the central balcony of the Basilica of St. John Lateran after celebrating Mass at the the basilica in Rome April 7. The pope formally took possession of the basilica, his seat as bishop of Rome. Also pictured is Cardina l Agostino Vallini, papal vicar for Rome.

At Rome's cathedral, Pope Francis celebrates God's patience

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ROME - Celebrating his first Mass in the cathedral of Rome, Pope Francis called on Christians to trust in God's endless patience and mercy.

This photo by AP photographer Gregorio Borgia of Pope Francis embracing 8-year-old Dominic Gondreau, who has cerebral palsy, captured the attention of people around the world. The moment took place after the new pontiff celebrated his first Easter Mass i n St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 31.

The papal hug that touched the world

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — By Easter Monday, it would be the shot seen around the world.

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives to lead the "Regina Coeli" (Queen of Heaven) prayer from the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 1.

Pope urges Catholics to let grace transform, work through them

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VATICAN CITY - Catholics must allow the grace of their baptism and of the Eucharist to transform their lives and make them instruments of God's grace in the world, Pope Francis said.

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