The Pope met with the Biomedical University Foundation of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome.
Jean Castex has asked the Pope to study how to reconcile confession with criminal law and the rights of victims.
The Pope will travel to Assisi to celebrate World Day of the Poor, an event which he established five years ago.
The White House announced the meeting.
“Work is what gives dignity. He who has no work feels that he lacks something,” says the Pope.
“You are always at the service of human life. And this involves conscientious objection in certain cases,” he told them.
President Armen Sarkissian met with the Pope on Monday.
The U.S. Speaker of the House had a private audience with the Pope after addressing parliamentary leaders ahead of COP26.
The family gave Pope Francis a number of blankets to give to homeless people.
They discuss two complex issues: migration and sexual abuse.
The event will begin with a plenary assembly on Saturday and Mass on Sunday.
It is one of the German Chancellor's “farewell” visits with world leaders before stepping down.
The Pope addresses representatives of different religious traditions participating in a meeting on the Global Compact on Education.
Nearly 40 leaders and representatives of different religious groups expressed their individual and collective commitment to the environmental goals for COP26.
The bishops are participating in a meeting organized by the Focolare Movement.
The Pope recommends following the example of European saints who lived without losing sight of the Gospel.
The family recounts the difficult journey and gives the Pope a meaningful gift.
St. Pio of Pietrelcina is remembered for the painful stigmata he carried, but the Pope tends to focus on his interior spirituality.
Before returning home he stopped by the Basilica of Saint Mary Major to pray for the sick people he saw in the hospital.
More than 60 people have died following a fire in the Covid isolation ward of a hospital in Nasiriya.
Pope Francis' return to the Vatican from the hospital is postponed.
The Pope opened a meeting with the Italian Bishop's Conference by discussing progress in ecclesiastical tribunals, seminaries, and synodality.
The Pope visited the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, created in 2015 to bring together the Holy See's media outlets.
The Pope met with students participating in the global education initiative Scholas Occurrentes from countries around the world, and took time to answer their questions.
