Pope Francis used his third day at Rome's Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
Bishop Robert Barron and Jordan Peterson filming in St. Peter's Square is not the only curious thing Vatican correspondent Christopher White has spotted this week.
After having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection that will be treated in the hospital for several days, the Vatican press office said.
German Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner has resigned from Pope Francis' child protection commission and has launched searing criticisms against the organization's leadership and its alleged lack of transparency.
Like St. Paul, Christians must not only know Jesus with their heads but invite him into their hearts through a personal encounter with Christ, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis called the deadly shooting at a school in Nashville a "senseless act of violence" and prayed that the grieving families hold strong to their faith and "bring good out of unspeakable evil."
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 64-year-old Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes of Agaña, Guam, who, the archdiocese said, has been "on extended leave due to illness."
In an interview with a Croatian publication, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich also said the church's language of describing LGBT persons as "intrinsically disordered" is "dubious."
Posters calling on Pope Francis to stop his crackdown on the old Latin Mass were plastered around the Vatican on March 28, in the latest display of conservative opposition to the pontiff.
