“I believe it is time to rethink the concept of a ‘just war’,” Pope Francis said. “A war may be just, there is the right to defend oneself."

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.

Pope Francis says he believes the clashes over the liturgy currently ongoing in the Church call for Catholics to “abandon our polemics” and “safeguard our communion.”