After  “drawing-room Christians” come “gossiping Christians”, Pope Francis said, on Saturday morning 18 May, at his morning celebration in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. He stressed the “bad habits” that conflict with the “good manners displayed by so many Christians. And among the bad habits is, precisely, that of  “flaying” each other alive with words, with disinformation or with slander. “Gossip”, the Pope said, “is destructive in the Church”. Jesus often spoke to Peter and to all...

To respect the right of every believer to live their faith freely, and to recognize the role that Christianity has played in the formation of European culture: these are the two requests that Pope Francis, through Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, addressed to the civil institutions on the occasion of the seminar on religious freedom, which commenced this morning, Friday, in Istanbul. The meeting – which aims to commemorate the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan, with which the...

With our witness to the truth, Christians must cause discomfort in “our comfortable structures”, even to the point of ending up “in trouble” because we must be enlivened by “a healthy spiritual craziness” in all “existential outskirts”. Following the example of St Paul, who “fought one battle after another”, believers must not retreat “to a relaxed life”. Today there are “too many Christians sitting in the living room, those who are educated”, those who are “lukewarm”, people for whom “everything...

Pope Francis intends to go to Cagliari this September to pay homage to Our Lady of Bonaria. He announced it himself this morning, Wednesday, 15 May, at the end of the General Audience, greeting the groups present in St Peter's Square. The Pope also told the story of the historic bond of “brotherhood” between Buenos Aires and Cagliari due precisely to the common Marian devotion for the Madonna of Bonaria. A little earlier, proposing a reflection on the Holy Spirit, the Pope had called the attention...