The elderly can find purpose in their old age by teaching future generations about the value and importance of tenderness, Pope Francis said.

Interreligious dialogue is key to preventing "the extremism that, sadly, is a pathology that can appear also in religions," Pope Francis said in a message to members of a Jewish group engaged in...

Like Sts. Peter and Paul, the church must go out to evangelize and not be bound by the chains of routine and spiritual mediocrity that stifles the Gospel message, Pope Francis said.