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Here you’ll find Pope Francis’ teaching on the pastoral care of migrants, refugees and victims of human trafficking. The collection is updated regularly as original texts and subsequent translations become available.
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Here you’ll find Pope Francis’ teaching on the pastoral care of migrants, refugees and victims of human trafficking. The collection is updated regularly as original texts and subsequent translations become available.
POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS
After the Angelus, the Holy Father continued: […] I am a little saddened by the news that many displaced people…
VISIT OF THE HOLY FATHER TO BARI FOR THE MEETING OF REFLECTION AND SPIRITUALITY, “MEDITERRANEAN: FRONTIER OF PEACE” MEETING WITH BISHOPS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS
Dear Brothers, I am pleased that we can meet you and I am grateful that each of you has accepted…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION (FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS)
[…] With regard to method, education is an inclusive movement. An inclusion that reaches out to all the excluded: those…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
[…] Since its foundation, the Knights of Columbus has demonstrated its unswerving devotion to the Successor of Peter. The establishment…
POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS
After the Angelus: Dear brothers and sisters, yesterday we celebrated the liturgical memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita and the World…
SEMINAR ON THE THEME: "NEW FORMS OF SOLIDARITY FRATERNITY, INCLUSION, INTEGRATION AND INNOVATION" ORGANIZED BY THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I wish to express my gratitude to you for this meeting. We are taking advantage…
VIDEO MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO MARK THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER
I greet all of you present, and I greet especially all the people in humanity who help their poor, sick,…
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS FOR THE 150 th ANNIVERSARY OF ROME AS CAPITAL OF ITALY
[…] There is a demand for inclusion written in the lives of the poor and those who, as immigrants and…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO MEMBERS OF THE GVM CARE & RESEARCH FOUNDATION
[…] From this perspective, what the Villa Maria Group has done so far to meet the needs of patients and…
POPE FRANCIS GENERAL AUDIENCE
[…] My dearest ones, hospitality is important. And it is also an important ecumenical virtue. First of all it means…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE ECUMENICAL DELEGATION OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF FINLAND
[…] Hospitality is likewise part of our shared witness of faith in daily life. The Week of Prayer for Christian…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE PONTIFICAL ETHIOPIAN COLLEGE IN THE VATICAN
[…] In meeting you, I think of many of your brothers and sisters in Ethiopia and Eritrea, whose lives are…
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ACCREDITED TO THE HOLY SEE FOR THE TRADITIONAL EXCHANGE OF NEW YEAR GREETINGS
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, A new year is opening before us; like the cry of a newborn baby, it…
POPE FRANCIS GENERAL AUDIENCE
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good Morning! The final part of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles tells us…
SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WORLD DAY OF PEACE POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS
[…] Jesus is the blessing for those who are oppressed by the yoke of slavery; moral slavery and physical slavery….