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Conversion is an ongoing process that relies on God's endless patience and grace, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis told the United Nations Friday that denying the existence of human life in the womb through abortion does not solve problems.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said Sunday that the Christian life requires concrete commitments and spiritual combat in order to grow in holiness. “There is no path to holiness without some renunciation and without spiritual combat,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sept. 27.

VATICAN CITY — The world will not overcome the current crisis if only big businesses, financial institutions and the powerful have a voice, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY -- Palliative care for the dying is important, but medical interventions are not enough; Catholics have a responsibility to be with the suffering and to communicate the hope of Christ, a new Vatican document on euthanasia said Tuesday.

The pope welcomed the children from the Ambulatorium Sonnenschein in St. Pölten, Austria, to the Vatican Sept. 21. 

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis thanked sick and elderly priests for their quiet witness to the Gospel Thursday in a message that conveyed the sanctifying value of frailty and suffering. 

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis Wednesday led a moment of silent prayer for Fr. Roberto Malgesini, a 51-year-old priest who was stabbed to death in Como, Italy, Sept. 15.

If people took seriously the Gospel call to forgive one another, the world would be a much better place, Pope Francis said.

Without God's help, it is impossible to bear the tragic loss of a young life, Pope Francis said.

We cannot demand God’s forgiveness for ourselves unless we are prepared to forgive our neighbors, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sunday.

Pope Francis said financial concerns should not overrule the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in medicine, addressing members of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society.

European countries can turn the migration crisis into a "window" of opportunity, dialogue and encounter between migrants and their citizens, Pope Francis said.

The common good -- and not political or economic gain -- should be at the heart of the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Pope Francis said.

Young Catholics are giving the church a valuable lesson in the real meaning of "synodality," Pope Francis wrote. "They have asked us in a thousand ways to walk alongside them -- not behind them or ahead of them, but at their side. Not over them or under them, but on their level," he wrote in the introduction to a new Italian book of essays about youth ministry.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and sisters to one another.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis implored Catholics Sunday not to gossip about one another’s faults, but instead to follow Jesus’ directive on fraternal correction in the Gospel of Matthew.

As many people around the world face economic uncertainty due to the pandemic, a paradigm shift is needed that places the good of the many over the benefit of the few, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis did not approve a proposal to ordain married men in the Amazon region because the idea was discussed, and even argued about, but not prayerfully discerned at a 2019 synod of bishops, according to notes from the pope included in an article published Thursday.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said Thursday that science and faith together can help humanity to overcome ecological crises.