Pope Francis on Friday shared a message with Slovak pilgrims, including Slovakia’s President Peter Pellegrini, in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Pope Francis said at an interfaith symposium on palliative care in Toronto that “genuine palliative care is radically different from euthanasia, which is never a source of hope or genuine concern for the sick and dying.”

On Oct. 2, at the Synod on Synodality, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández dismissed speculation on further theological study into the ordination of women as deacons.

The undersecretary of the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, the Spanish Augustinian Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, is among those who have collaborated most closely with Pope Leo XIV.

On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis warned of three “widespread and dangerous temptations” that the devil

Pope Francis urged thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday not to see confirmation as their “last rites” in the Church but as “the start of active participation.”