The 87-year-old Pope Francis publicly thanked God for allowing him "to do as an old pope what I would have liked to do as a ...

In Papua New Guinea, he told the crowd, he was impressed by the dedication of the missionaries -- including a group of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The 87-year-old Pope Francis publicly thanked God for allowing him “to do as an old pope what I would ...

In Papua New Guinea, he told the crowd, he was impressed by the dedication of the missionaries -- including a group of priests and women religious from Argentina -- and the catechists, who are the ...

who are the primarily evangelizers. In the nation’s young people, he said, “I saw a new future, without tribal violence, without dependency, without economic or ideological colonialism ...