Pope Francis greets cardinals during a surprise appearance at the end of the mass for Palm Sunday at St Peter’s square in the Vatican on April 13, 2025. Credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS ...
Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology — St. Francis of Assisi — died the day before Earth Day and about five weeks before the 10th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on ...
Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, ...