Pope Francis Columns

Pope Francis to elderly men and women: “... please be attentive to young people, they are watching us.”

Pope Francis urged Christians to not only support and encourage better care for the elderly, but also to transform the younger generations understanding “about life and its stages.” - CNS

Videos and photographs released April 3, after Russian troops retreated from Bucha and other towns, showed bodies in the streets and in the yards of homes.

From a series of talks by Pope Francis dedicated to the meaning and value of “old age” and focused on the role of memory and personal witness in handing down the faith.

A pervasive “spirit of rejection” exists in the modern world that “tends to be hostile to the elderly and, not by chance, also to children” and “casts them aside.” - Pope Francis