HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE PACORA – 25.01.2019 – 10.30 Official Translation Speech of the Holy Father “He receives sinners and eats with them”. We just heard this at the beginning of the Gospel reading (Lk 15:2). They are the words muttered by some of the Pharisees and scribes who were greatly upset and scandalized by […]

Photos from around Panama from the second day of World Youth Day.

Brooklyn pilgrims learned more about their Catholic faith during catechesis on their first official day of religious instruction as part of World Youth Day 2019.

Clergy who file into a room to hear an address by Pope Francis know they’re taking their chances. He can either be tough, railing against clericalism, judgment, hypocrisy and other perceived failures, or he can be understanding and supportive.

In the minds of international pilgrims from across the globe, Gustavo Huguenin and Fabíola Goulart are lovingly thought of as “World Youth Day’s most famous couple.”

HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE PANAMA – 24.01.2019 – 06:20 Official Translation Speech of the Holy Father Dear Young People, good evening! How good it is to get together again, this time in a land that receives us with such radiance and warmth! As we gather in Panama, World Youth Day is once more a celebration […]

HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE PANAMA – 24.01.2019 – 11.15 Official Translation Speech of the Holy Father Dear Brothers, I thank Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador for his words of welcome in the name of all. I am happy to be able to be with you and to share in a closer and […]

History’s first Latin American pope opened his latest homecoming on Thursday by extolling the region as a “Great Fatherland,” emphasizing both its unity and cultural distinctiveness, and describing his host nation Panama as a “bridge between oceans and a natural land of encounter.”