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The leaders of the Church are old but they can dream and show young people the way forward, Pope Francis said Tuesday.

The churches in Syria, Iraq and Egypt are suffering from war and terrorism, Pope Francis said on Thursday.

Libero Milone has quit as the Vatican's auditor general after two years on the post, Vatican sources told ANSA on Tuesday. A statement from the Vatican press office said that the decision had been by mutual accord.

Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in January 2018, Vatican Spokesperson Greg Burke announced on Monday.

One of the hardest things in life is to recognise one's own vulnerability, Pope Francis said during Mass on Friday at the Santa Marta residence where he lives inside the Vatican.

Christians and non-Christians must be united in the fight against corruption, a "cancer that consumes us", Pope Francis said Thursday.

Pope Francis said a world dominated by narcissism with little room for selfless love is like hell, speaking during his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square.

Pope Francis on Tuesday condemned "the shameless wealth that is accumulated in the hands of a few privileged people, and often is accompanied by illegality and exploitation", as well as the "scandal" of the spread of "poverty to major sectors of society al...

Consolation is a gift which is not for narcissists, Pope Francis said Monday. "One cannot console oneself on one's own, but only by opening up to the Other and to others," Francis said at morning Mass at St Martha's House, the Vatican guesthouse he lives in.

Pope Francis on Friday condemned violence against women.

Pope Francis said God never abandons people, even those who reject him, during his weekly general audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday. "We may be distant, hostile, we may even say that we are Godless.

Adulation and hypocrisy kill people and communities, Pope Francis said Tuesday. "You start by adulating, like the serpent with Eve," the pope said at a Mass in St Martha's House, the Vatican hostel he lives in.

Pope Francis tweeted Thursday that "I thank God for parents who try to live in love and go forward even though they fall many times along the way".

Bishops must know how and when to bow out, Pope Francis said Tuesday. "They are not at the centre of history," the pope said in his homily at St Martha's House, the Vatican guest house where he lives.

Pope Francis tweeted Friday "the future of our societies requires on the part of all, especially institutions, a concrete attention for life".

'I'm liking Italy,' says US president, who also has talks with Mattarella and Gentiloni.

German director Wim Wenders has made a documentary on Pope Francis in which the pontiff speaks to the audience, the SIR news agency said Friday.

Pope Francis on Monday urged nuns in the Vatican "not to join the prophets of doom, who have done so much damage to the Church and the consecrated life, don't give in to the temptation of drowsiness, like the Apostles in Gethsemane, or desperation".

Pope Francis on Friday said true doctrine is a unifying factor, contrary to ideology, in his morning homily at Mass in the Vatican's Santa Marta residence.

Pope Francis on Thursday told geneticists working to beat Huntington's Disease that no end, however noble, justifies destroying embryos.