‘Abortion is Never the Answer,’ Pope Francis Says

Addressing participants at a Vatican meeting on medical care for “extremely fragile” babies and on the pastoral care of their parents, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church’s total opposition to abortion is not primarily a religious position, but a human one.

Pope Prays for Spanish Missionary Murdered in Central African Republic

While greeting French pilgrims attending his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square May 22, Pope Francis said he was saddened to hear of the brutal murder of Daughter of Jesus Sister Ines Nieves Sancho, a 77-year-old Spanish missionary who was killed May 20 outside her convent.